D0-All 3/4 #### thrower

[kjohn]

A shooting friend and I bought one of these to try out. He had seen them in operation and was impressed. We set it up the other day and decided today would be trial day. We were interested in the "rabbit" throwing ability, as well as the normal stuff.

It worked great for throwing normal clays. No complaints. We had a box of the rabbit clays. These are much thicker, and are supposed to be bounced along the ground. Worked good, but the grass was a bit too long where we first set up. We moved to a mowed section and it worked much better. We tried ordinary clays in rabbit mode and found that they work good too! There wasn't enough mowed grass to really have it work good, but we had fun "shooting at" the regular ones both in "rabbit" mode and normal.

We decided that the thrower was good enough that now we will buy another one, so we can have one each.

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Being able to sit while operating this thrower is nice. Once set up properly, all you have to do is load a bird, pull the paddle back the last 1/4 to lock it, and wait for the word. Not pictured is a bright orange plastic hoop that provides a visual circle where you want to stay clear of.

 

[kjohn]

Does anybody else have one of these throwers? Appreciate any tips or tricks.

 

[RHS47]

Our club has one. It will throw a "stacked" pair very well. That's two targets on top of each other. Just back off the wing nut on the spring steel hold down.

Bob.

 

[kjohn]

Our club has one. It will throw a "stacked" pair very well. That's two targets on top of each other. Just back off the wing nut on the spring steel hold down.

Bob.

Thank you. We only tried one throw that way. We'll give it another whirl. Worked okay that time.

 

[BigCraigger]

Just tried one of these out on the weekend. Worked pretty good. Found the tension on the spring steel hold down was important to have set right. Too tight and it would break clays. Would be nice if the bolts holding it in the direction you want it to thro didn't have teeth on it so you could just loosen it off and the guy operating it could move it wherever he wants. I find it gets too easy because it always throws the clays in the same direction. But overall it worked well

 

[flange]

Just tried one of these out on the weekend. Worked pretty good. Found the tension on the spring steel hold down was important to have set right. Too tight and it would break clays. Would be nice if the bolts holding it in the direction you want it to thro didn't have teeth on it so you could just loosen it off and the guy operating it could move it wherever he wants. I find it gets too easy because it always throws the clays in the same direction. But overall it worked well

Do All used to offer a modified wobble head for these was kinda of expensive for what it was. What we did was get some puckboard and a hole saw. Save the cut outs and put them between the toothed parts, worked excellent and since it was scrap material price was right.

 

[rembolt]

Just tried one of these out on the weekend. Worked pretty good. Found the tension on the spring steel hold down was important to have set right. Too tight and it would break clays. Would be nice if the bolts holding it in the direction you want it to thro didn't have teeth on it so you could just loosen it off and the guy operating it could move it wherever he wants. I find it gets too easy because it always throws the clays in the same direction. But overall it worked well

You can vary direction by simply turning the wing nut on the hold down by a 1/2 to 1 turn tighter or looser . tighter will cause the target to fly more left and looser will allow it to go more right of the center line of the thrower . by canting the head you can make the target curve as it flies also . chondels are also possible very similar to the rabbit setup but with the release point being higher .they are a great trap at their price point .

 

[BigCraigger]

Do All used to offer a modified wobble head for these was kinda of expensive for what it was. What we did was get some puckboard and a hole saw. Save the cut outs and put them between the toothed parts, worked excellent and since it was scrap material price was right.

The one we were using was the DT534 so because this one was a double thrower it seemed that you'd have to be more careful if you were really moving them around to make sure that they didn't hit each other.