SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT OUR KINGS
- Norbert "Buck" Henneke has been declared the top shooter over the years of the King Feast competition. Henneke has won the event six times i n 1972, 1973, 2006, 2008, 2009 & 2013.
- Leroy Mikeska has won the King Feast a total of four times 1947, 1951, 1953, and 1970. He is tied with David Pohl winning the King Feast also four times in 1971, 1984, 1988, 2003 and Shane Henneke who has won the King Feast four times also 2007, 2011, 2014 and 2019
- In addition Norbert Buck Henneke has won the competition twice back to back 1972 & 1973 and in 2008 & 2009. Fritz Korges won 2011 & 2012, and Brian Heinsohn won 1993 & 1994. Carson Dyer won 2020 and 2021. These are the only other riflemen to also win the King Feast Competition back to back.
- A perfect score is 39XXX, several members have been extremely close. That elite group includes Leroy Mikeska, 1970 - 39X; David Pohl, 1971 - 39X; and Norbert "Buck" Henneke, 1973 - 39X. W.A. Morley in 1966 & 1968 is the only member to accomplish a score of 39 rings on two different occasions, while other members over the years that have been close include A.C. Appelt, 1915 - 39; Emmett Woldsdorff, 1959 - 39; Charles Sommers 1969 -39
- For the first time in the Appelt’s Hill Gun Club history a woman won the King Feast in 2015. That honor went to Betty Supak shooting a score of 36.
- Just some interesting facts about our Kings!
Source for above information : Jimmy Appelt article in the Hallettsville Tribune Herald
KINGS OF THE KING FEAST
2024 DYER, GARRETT 37
2023 Tucker, Jr , R.J. 36
2022 Zappe, Joseph P. II 38
2021 Dyer, Carson 38
2020 Dyer, Carson 37
2019 Henneke, Shane 36
2018 Obelgoner, Robert 36
2017 Jacobs, Jack 37
2016 Zappe,Joseph P.II 35
2015 Supak,Betty 36
2014 Henneke,Shane 36X
2013 Henneke,Norbert"Buck"38
2012 Rother, Wayne 36
2011 Henneke,Shane 36
2010 Zappe, Joseph P. II 34
2009 Henneke,Norbert”Buck” 36
2008 Henneke, Norbert”Buck”35
2007 Henneke, Shane 37X
2006 Henneke,Norbert"Buck" 37
2005 Zappe, Robert 34
2004 Roznovsky, Chris 36X
2003 Pohl, David 37
2002 Marek, Mike 36
2001 Dyer. Scott 37
2000 Kocian, Dennis,Sr. 36X
1999 Thomas, Edward 37
1998 Kocian, Dennis,Sr. 37
1997 Butschek, Wayne 36X
1996 Thomas, Edward 37
1995 Werner, Juno 38
1994 Heinsohn, Brian 36X
1993 Heinsohn, Brian 37X
1992 Obelgoner, Robert 37
1991 Phillips, Bill 38X
1990 Heinsohn, Brian 37
1989 Gundelach, Danny 37
1988 Pohl, David 37
1987 Kubena, Bob 35X
1986 Brown, Ronald 36X
1985 Pavlik, Bennie 36X
1984 Pohl, David 35
1983 Stock, Warren 37X
1982 Olsovsky, Dwayne 38X
1981 Henneke, Karl 36X
1980 Henneke, John, D 36
1979 Schroeder, Leslie 36
1978 Gundelach, Danny 37
1977 Henneke, John, D 38
1976 Rother, Daniel 37
1975 Renger, Kenneth 38
1974 Ehlers, Ricky 34
1973 Henneke, Norbert 39X
1972 Henneke, Norbert 38
1971 Pohl, David 39X
1970 Mikeska, Leroy 39X
1969 Sommers,Charles 39
1968 Morley, W. A. 39
1967 Wolfsdorff, Emmett 38
1966 Morley, W. A. 39
1965 Zappe, Joe P. 38
1964 Morley, W. A. 38
1963 Scheffer, Milton 37
1962 Zappe, Joe P. 38
1961 Scheffer, Milton 36
1960 Pohl, Arthur (Bob) 38
1959 Wolfsdorff, Emmett 39
1958 Scheffer, Milton M. 37
1957 Neumann, Julius 38
1956 Appelt, Alton A. 36
1955 Orsak, Otto F. 37
1954 Henneke, John W. 35
1953 Mikeska, Leroy 38
1952 DeBord, Wesley 36
1951 Mikeska, Leroy 36
1950 Stratmann, Arthur 37
1949 DeBord, Wesley 38
1948 Henneke, Leo "Buck" 36
1947 Mikeska, Leroy 35
1946 Zappe, Henry 35
1945 Foster, Frank C. 36
1944 Kubena, Anton 37
1943 Spies, Hubert 34
1942 Reckaway, Paul 34
1941 Foster, Frank C. 36
1940 Henneke. John W. 34
1939 Heinsohn, Anton 35
1938 Roeber, Charles 36
1937 Appelt, Alton A. 35
1936 Schulte, Oscar 35
1935 Zappe, Henry 35
1934 Schulte, Oscar 35
1933 Laas, Hilmer 34
1932 Zappe, Henry 33
1931 Appelt, Alton A. 37
1930 Obelgoner, William 33
1929 Brogger, Otto 36
1928 Schornack, William 36
1927 Boethel, Adolph 33
1926 Schulte, Frank 35
1925 Sommerlate, Joe 34
1924 Boethel, Adolph 36
1923 Schornack, John 35
1922 Schulte, Oscar 36
1921 Roeber, Charles 33
1920 Schulte, John 34
1919 Appelt,Louis,Sr34
No feast because of World War I
1917 Schaefer, Anton 34
1916 Reinhart, Otto 36
1915 Appelt, A. C. 39
1914 Obelgoner,Henry 38
1913 Frieda, John 37
1912 Korges ,Fritz 32
1911 Korges, Fritz 36
1910 Appelt, Anton 33
1909 Appelt, Joe 36
1901 Rickeway, William
1900 Frieda ,John 34
1896 Schott,Gus
1893 Zappe,Adolph 32
1892 Pagel, Julius
1889 Hildebrand,Gottlieb 30
1888 Muecke, Charles Jr. 2