Pilkguns Logo

Pilkguns Tour of Germany

October 2001

To view the full sized photos click on the thumbnails. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser.

Mark Anderson, Elise and Charles Meyer at the Oktoberfest.
Michael Moritz giving coaching tips at the RWS factory visit.
Nicole Hamilton and Elise Meyer at the RWS range.
Walt Fairbanks changing targets at the RWS range.
Eliot Tarlin, Perry McFarland, Don Williams and Matt Hilgendorf.
Dave Tokach proposing a lunchtime toast at the RWS factory.
Tour group in front of the RWS plant. Hubertus Deowidat at right was our host.
Michael Ray at the RWS customer test range.
Richard Ortlepp with German friend Rupert Hobmeyer at the air museum in Oberschleissheim.
Emily Pilkington admiring stonework at Schleissheim.
German tour guide at Schleissheim.
The group at Helmut Veidt's club in Freising.
Perry McFarland and Cheryl Ingersoll.
Michael Frahm collects a prize in Oberndorf.
Emily and Annette von Weech look over an old Anschutz rifle.
Michael Ray and Mary Ray at Annette von Weech's house.
Neuschwanstein castle.
Forrest Pilkington checks out the fountain at a castle.
Scoring at Freising.
Cheryl Ingersoll, Walt Fairbanks, Tammy Fairbanks and Richard Ortlepp.
Matthew Helgendorf, Mary Ray, Michael Ray and Michael Frahm show off their medals.
Helmut Veidt and Scott Pilkington with a special commemorative Honor Target.
Richard Ortlepp receiving his medal.
Top ten shooter Emily Pilkington, all smiles as she receives her medal.
Dave Tokach getting his medal.
Perry McFarland winning a medal at Freising.
Mark Anderson receiving his medal.
Michael Ray getting his medal at Freising.
Karin and Michel Veidt with Rhonda Pilkington deciding what to eat.
Honor Target for Helmut Veidt in Freising.
Honor Target in Freising.
Honor Target in Freising.
Charles Meyer in Freising.
Honor Target for the German Young Shooting Society
Matthew Hilgendorf setting up his electronic target in Munich.
Walt Fairbanks, taking a break on the Olympic range.
Tammy Fairbanks in Munich.
Munich Olympic range.
Michael Slipper and Elise Meyer in Munich.
Shooting on the Munich Olympic range.
Claudia Kustermann, Richard Ortlepp and Walt Fairbanks at the Kustermanns'.
Curt Ingersoll on the Munich Olympic range.
Cheryl Ingersoll getting a personal fitting by Gottfried Kustermann.
Annette von Weech and the President of Burlefingen shooting club.
Annette von Weech, Jutta Bais and Scott Pilkington.
Annette von Weech receives her back pack.
Scott Pilkington with the officers of the Burlefingen club.
Richard Ortlepp at Burlefingen.
Jutta Bais, previous German champion in air rifle, smallbore and crossbow, gives award to Michael Frahm.
Rhonda Pilkington and Brock Tokach receiving his prize of a Walther backpack.
Norbert Ussfeller's daughter Janet, Emily and Michael Ray at Burlefingen.
Symbolism from the middle ages - the grapes symbolize the blood of Christ.
A close up of the prior photo.
Michael Slipper, the folks from Nill Griff and Bill McCaughey.
Buffing a GSP frame.
Touring the Walther factory.
Charles Meyer, and Sven Martini explains the test facility at the Walther factory.
GSP frames in the Walther factory.
More honor targets.
Annette von Weech and Mary Kay Tokach.
Brock and Dave Tokach in the Walther factory.
Tour group in front of Burlafingen club.
At Burlafingen club.
View from the top of Ulm Cathedral.
Matt Hilgendorf at the top of the cathedral.
At the top of the cathedral.
The sparrow of Ulm is a legendary figure from history - here is one in US colors protecting the highest cathedral in the world.
Michael Ray gets his ham.
Emily got some cross cultural advice on building card houses.
Frau Langenbacher, a FWB employee, at the Oberndorf club.
Perry McFarland accepts a bottle of wine.
Brock Tokach selscting his favorite brand of rocket fuel.
Michael Frahm being presented his prize by Uwe Richter.
Eliot Tarlin and Uwe Richter.
Eliot Tarlin and Bill McCaughey tied and had to fight over the bottle of wine.
Walking to the bus at the FWB factory.
At the Hohenzollern Castle.
Our bus leaving the Feinwerkbau factory, Oberndorf.
Nicole Hamilton selecting being presented her prize by Uwe Richter, club manager and previous German national champion.
Walt Fairbanks and Michael Ray at Oberndorf.
25m range at Oberndorf.
Tower at the Oberndorf club.
View from the Rothenburg wall.
View of a German garden from the Rothenburg wall.
Forrest Pilkington on the wall in the historical town of Rothenburg.
Michael Ray, Curt Ingersoll and Bill McCaughey at Burlafingen range.
Racked rifles in the Anschutz factory.
Working on aluminum stock.
Tour guide at Anschutz factory.
Bluing tanks.
Metal pressings.
Production line at Anschutz.
Michael Slipper and Matther Hilgendorf in the Anschutz factory.
Close inspection.
Smallbore barrels in the Anschutz factory.
Barrel straightener.
Barrel stocks.
Dave Tokach lifts an action billet.
Mark Anderson watches a CNC in action.
Dave Tokach and Mark Anderson.
Norbert Ussfeller welcomes the tour group.
Dieter Anschutz addressing the tour group.
AHG Anschutz store - Uwe Anschutz, Mark Anderson and Dave Tokach.
Rhonda Pilkington and Mary Kay Tokach in the AHG show room.
Elise takes a break while Charles Meyer spends all their money.
In the AHG show room.
Anschutz test facility.
Anschutz worker checks sear surfaces in triggers.
A box of completed triggers.
Testing for accuracy in airguns.
Testing vice for airguns - note the pellet tin tape finish.
Smallbore testing room.
Test groups.
This is the expression of those that didn't get to go on the trip.

Back to Sydney 2000 Index

Back to Pilkington Competition Home Page