Annual shooting tournament
The Oud Limburgs Schuttersfeest (abbreviated as OLS, literally translated "Old Limburgian Shooters' Festival") is an annual shooting tournament during which shooting associations (Dutch: "schutterijen"; Limburgian: "sjötterie") from across the region of Limburg, nowadays split in a Dutch and Belgian part, compete against each other. The winner organizes the event the following year and takes home "De Um", the highest prize for a shooter ("schutter"). The 2022 winner is Sint Martinus from Born.
Each "schutterij", or shooting association participates in the tournament with 6 members. Utilising an approximately 15 kg. carbine, with self-made bullets of lead, participants are required to shoot square blocks (called "bölkes") from a stick. This is to be executed across 20 meter of distance.
Ten "schutter" unions unite approximately 170 "schutterij" guilds, with a total of approximately 10,000 members in the Netherlands and Belgium.
The OLS is recognised and protected as Intangible cultural heritage of Flanders and the Netherlands.
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