Competition in shooting was won by Lieutenant Margus Lumi, who in the fifth series made an accurate shot, writes err. ee.

"The competition was tense and difficult, but with each shot I knew better where the shot was to be sent, and I hit the fifth shot," Lumi said after the competition, the words of which are quoted in a press release from the Defense Forces.

In the shooting competitions, military personnel of the Kuperyanovsk Infantry Battalion. In the course of the competition, all the arrows make one shot from the machine in a clock at a distance of 100 meters.

If in the first round of shots no one enters the clock, the competitors may try to do this in four more rounds. The winner, according to tradition, receives a new watch. If the watch remains undamaged after the prescribed five rounds of shots, the competitors must present their watchman with a new watch.

The tradition of shooting at the batches of the battalion commander originated in 1994, when Colonel Aarne Ermus, who was then commander of the Kuperyanovsk battalion, was angry at the clock that was incorrectly showing his time and decided to make a target for shooting, in order, among other things, to encourage servicemen to improve their skills in shooting.

Until now, the clock remained intact only in 2007, and then the participants of the competition were forced to buy the commander a wall clock.