Wehrmacht Map Tools & Shooting Tables

In a forest where a gebirgsjäger artillery unit once lived I have searched and metal detected for a few seasons, and found several interesting map tools and some shooting tables for their guns. Most of these early plastic items were found on the edge of burn pits, so it was very lucky they didn`t all melt in the flames from the big trash burning in the summer of 1945.

The map tools shown below can be used for different types of maps as they have several scales engraved on them.

1:

1:40000 & 1:75000 scale

Makers mark reads cme41

Scale 1:20000 & 1:80000

2:

1:25000, 1:50000 & 1:100000

Produced in a sturdy slightly yellow plastic.

Makers mark reads W.HALLWACHS & CO. KOM.GES.BERLIN.

3:

This map tool in aluminum is very interesting I think, since it has time estimates for troop movements printed on it.

4:

As a curiosity I added this Finnish map tool, supposedly WW2 era. I guess it was a certasin risk pun

1:20000 % 1:50000 and distance measurements

Shooting Tables.

In a large dumping pit in the artillery camp I found some shooting tables I had never seen before. Thin sheets of some kind of plastic. Painted white and printed with different grids and tables and seems to have been for the s.F.H. 18 field guns.

In the same pit I also found a plastic Target square table.

Target Square Table:

Zielgevierttafel. I had only found broken fragments of such a table before, so I was pleased to dig up this one.

The table can be used with five different scales and has arrows with the compass directions.

Stamped with a nice pre-war WaA stamp. WaA328

Shooting Tables:

1:

Stufen für besondere Einflüsse (Pulvertemperatur und Geschossgewichtsklasse). Translates to something like Stages for special influences (powder temperature and bullet weight class)

Grid with different gunpowder temperatures

Grid with different gunpowder temperatures

Grid with different gunpowder temperatures

2:

Tables for the s.F.H.18 and projectiles weight.

3:

Tables regarding wind with the shooting direction.

Metal ruler for the Feldkanone 16:

A metal ruler for the Feldkanone 16. Looks like it was attached to something, perhaps a map table.

Clock / Compass Disc :

The metal disc measures 30 cm across and is handpainted with compass directions and as a clock face with 12 to the North and 6 to the South. I bet it was used as some kind of targeting device.

Map Table:

I found this Wehrmacht map table in a barn a few years ago. It was missing one or two screws, a ruler and the carrying straps, but a very curious find. According to the owner of the barn, the farm had been used by a Gebirgsjäger Stab.

The legs are foldable and have spikes for a good grip in the field. The text warns that it has magnetic parts which might affect any compass placed ontop it.

Nicht magnetfrei

Made by Franz Kuhlmann