1938 GJ shooting award... For lanyard or something else??

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Can anyone explain what this award is for exactly?
I know for shooting but was it for the lanyard or some other type of competition?

I don't speak German so it's very hard for me to fully understand this award document.

Thanks!
-Brian

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Basically if it's for the lanyard I would like to display it with the correct lanyard... If it's not, I will frame it alone.

To explain my reasoning.
-Brian

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It's also very large....
Roughly 10" x 15.5"

-Brian

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1938 GJ shooting award... For lanyard or something else??

Anybody hazard a Yuletide guess?
Or am I in the wrong forum for this document?

I have tried Internet translation to the best of my ability but it still doesn't answer my questions. I am having trouble reading some of it.

Merry Christmas everyone!
-Brian

[Hank C.]

I'm thinking it's for the 1st level of the lanyard...but I believe they came in 3 grades, with 3 or 4 steps per grade. So there's actually 9 or 12 different lanyards.

BTW, it's for light machine gun.

best
Hank

EDIT: I see it's for the II. Schiessklasse (2nd class of shooting), 1. Fache (1st level)...so it may be a mid-grade lanyard. I've seen threads on the various levels, I think in the uniforms forums....you might have to do a search for "shooting lanyard grades" or something similar.

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Ok thank you very much Hank.
That makes sense.

I will see if I can get any help in the Heer awards forum if I can't figure it out from a search.

I thought it was for a lanyard but I figured it would say something about being awarded the lanyard etc rather than just naming the level attained.


Merry Christmas!!
-Brian

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Do you think this could be for a non portable type shooting table award medal? A friend said the lanyard was normally referred to as schutzen schnur. Or could schutzen abzeichen just be an earlier way to refer to the lanyard?

Thanks,
-Brian