Silver tea spoons as shooting trophies?

Grizzly 45

Folks,
Anyone explain the history or tradition of awarding a silver tea spoon as a prize in target rifle shooting?? Is it just target rifle or is it used in handgun shooting as well??
Curious, as I read about it in a novel,and the inter web isnt much help on this one.
Any of you know the story on this one?
TIA
Grizz

Sparks

English tradition originally, isn't it? Germans used wooden targets for the same thing IIRC.

Grizzly 45

[QUOTE=Sparks;84773307Germans used wooden targets for the same thing IIRC.[/QUOTE]

Different... the German wooden targets are called scheiben or Ehern scheiben
Translated literally shooting targets or honour or event targets.

The Shooting target.
Traditionally made out of a slice[scheibe] of a tree[pine or softwoods] about 2ins thick and about 2 or 3 feet wide depending on distance shot or how old. They have some fancy decorations painted onto a "bullseye" style target.Usually used to open an event where there is some sort of shooting involved.Near enough every German town and village has a shooting club or Schuetzenverein[mostly air rifles and a lot of pomp and ceremony and somewhat silly costumes and rituals] and at least every district has a Schutzenfest once a year.Basically a local village fete with more beer and bratwurst and some shooting ceremony, than tea and homemade jam.:D
The target is presented to local dignitaries or for whomever the event was in honour of.

The event or honour targets.
They are very artisticly done wooden targets celebrating a special occasion.
Say the birth of a child to a club member,opening a new range or somthing of the like .There is usually a prominent marker someplace on the picture for aiming[say a red heart etc] on the picture of the notable event that is being honoured.
They are then shot with either .22 or air rifle,or some small calibre firearm.Depending on the occasion everyone is entitled to one shot at this occasion at the target.The person who is so honoured by having the target dedicated to them then hangs the target at home as a picture or momento of the event.