Electronic skeet thrower

rhino519 said:
your math is off, assuming someone would shoot 5 times a year, three rounds a day (im being conservative here) you will pay off the machine in 4 years, while not being restricted by club rules or line ups to use the lines
if one doesnt want to the membership and just casually attend a club to shoot, and Ill use my local club costs here, $20 pass a day, plus $10 for a round, costs me $50 a day, multiply that by number of shooters (last time between 5 of us we spent $250) in three trips in a year we would spend enough money to cover the cost of the machine and skeets,

there is nothing wrong with going to a club to shoot, its great when someone can explain the in and outs of the sport, but if you want to get good at something you better do some homework too
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I used the simple math of 5 years at $150 memberships adding up to $750, the typical cost for a cheap electric thrower with wobble feature. As well, we charge $7 per round, and the price of clays locally works out to about $8 per 25, so the more you shoot, the more you save, by shooting at our club. We do not allow daily drop ins at our club, we allow three visits lifetime, as a guest to try our facility, then you must be a member to shoot, so I didn't count the cost of daily drop in shooting. We are a small club, so it's rare that you would have to wait in line to shoot, we usually shoot four rounds, and are done in 1-2 hours depending if we have beginners or not. We are an approved range, so of course there are basic safety rules, such as no alcohol, which seems to be an issue for some people, even though it is common sense, but we also have no firearm restrictions, other than it be non restricted, and safe to operate. Safe to operate, as in there are no mechanical issues that cause accidental discharges,hangfires etc, which we have experienced in the past. We do have a shot restriction of no shot larger than #7-1/2, which is part of the range approval due to shotfall. I have had several people contact me to ask the costs, as many people expect it to cost much more to shoot at a club. So as I posted, you can shoot actual skeet for five years at our club, for about the same as purchasing your own thrower, and you get to shoot actual true pairs from two machines, instead of being limited to shooting from one machine.
 
stubblejumper said:
I used the simple math of 5 years at $150 memberships adding up to $750, the typical cost for a cheap electric thrower with wobble feature. As well, we charge $7 per round, and the price of clays locally works out to about $8 per 25, so the more you shoot, the more you save, by shooting at our club. We do not allow daily drop ins at our club, we allow three visits lifetime, as a guest to try our facility, then you must be a member to shoot, so I didn't count the cost of daily drop in shooting. We are a small club, so it's rare that you would have to wait in line to shoot, we usually shoot four rounds, and are done in 1-2 hours depending if we have beginners or not. We are an approved range, so of course there are basic safety rules, such as no alcohol, which seems to be an issue for some people, even though it is common sense, but we also have no firearm restrictions, other than it be non restricted, and safe to operate. Safe to operate, as in there are no mechanical issues that cause accidental discharges,hangfires etc, which we have experienced in the past. We do have a shot restriction of no shot larger than #7-1/2, which is part of the range approval due to shotfall. I have had several people contact me to ask the costs, as many people expect it to cost much more to shoot at a club. So as I posted, you can shoot actual skeet for five years at our club, for about the same as purchasing your own thrower, and you get to shoot actual true pairs from two machines, instead of being limited to shooting from one machine.
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wow, its like talking to an AI
 
eurovw said:
In over 20 years at my club, as a well as at various clay shooting facilities in Canada and the US, I have never heard the term “skeet thrower” used.
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You said the magic word
“Club”…
Nothing against clubs but sporting clay and skeet shooters who are involved with clubs and go to competitions are more likely to be on the “snobby” side, I’m talking about farmers and oilfield workers who go out in the evening at so and sos place to do some fun shooting while bs ing about the days events and having a couple beers afterwards
They are the ones who call them skeet throwers and skeets and there is nothing wrong with that, anyone with two working brain cells knows what they mean
 
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stubblejumper said:
I used the simple math of 5 years at $150 memberships adding up to $750, the typical cost for a cheap electric thrower with wobble feature. As well, we charge $7 per round, and the price of clays locally works out to about $8 per 25, so the more you shoot, the more you save, by shooting at our club. We do not allow daily drop ins at our club, we allow three visits lifetime, as a guest to try our facility, then you must be a member to shoot, so I didn't count the cost of daily drop in shooting. We are a small club, so it's rare that you would have to wait in line to shoot, we usually shoot four rounds, and are done in 1-2 hours depending if we have beginners or not. We are an approved range, so of course there are basic safety rules, such as no alcohol, which seems to be an issue for some people, even though it is common sense, but we also have no firearm restrictions, other than it be non restricted, and safe to operate. Safe to operate, as in there are no mechanical issues that cause accidental discharges,hangfires etc, which we have experienced in the past. We do have a shot restriction of no shot larger than #7-1/2, which is part of the range approval due to shotfall. I have had several people contact me to ask the costs, as many people expect it to cost much more to shoot at a club. So as I posted, you can shoot actual skeet for five years at our club, for about the same as purchasing your own thrower, and you get to shoot actual true pairs from two machines, instead of being limited to shooting from one machine.
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I’m sorry are you still speaking?
 
Deathrawt said:
You said the magic word
“Club”…
Nothing against clubs but sporting clay and skeet shooters who are involved with clubs and go to competitions are more likely to be on the “snobby” side, I’m talking about farmers and oilfield workers who go out in the evening at so and sos place to do some fun shooting while bs ing about the days events and having a couple beers afterwards
They are the ones who call them skeet throwers and skeets and there is nothing wrong with that, anyone with two working brain cells knows what they mean
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Making some assumptions there my friend and most of them are wrong.
 
I have the Wheelybird with wobble base and it works very well. I also picked up a used Altas trap that is a beast. The Altas throws clays much faster but always at the same place.

I shoot clays to practice for hunting. There are certain presentations I can recreate in the bush that are most realistic to what I need to work on. I have shot at clubs and truly enjoyed it but many of the presentations were/are just for entertainment. For example; I never shoot low birds, weak flushes or rabbits as I hunt over dogs. I don't want to get into the habit of doing so and any practice at such is simply a waste of materials.

Having my own trap allows me to get people out that have no interest in going to a club but like to hunt. I would often take someone out for the day hunting, find a good spot and have them humbled a bit by shooting some clays. On most occasions I start with stationary targets and then move on to straight away targets moving slowly with the spring loosened. Once I get them hitting some clays, I can slowly work on some angles. It allows us to work on basic stuff like foot work and gun mounting without the pressure of an audience. People are often embarrassed with two guys shooting on a cut line. I don't think being embarrassed in front of more people shooting at tricky presentations would add to the enjoyment.

If they truly enjoy the game they can move on to joining a club whenever they like.
 
MK2750 said:
I have the Wheelybird with wobble base and it works very well. I also picked up a used Altas trap that is a beast. The Altas throws clays much faster but always at the same place.

I shoot clays to practice for hunting. There are certain presentations I can recreate in the bush that are most realistic to what I need to work on. I have shot at clubs and truly enjoyed it but many of the presentations were/are just for entertainment. For example; I never shoot low birds, weak flushes or rabbits as I hunt over dogs. I don't want to get into the habit of doing so and any practice at such is simply a waste of materials.

Having my own trap allows me to get people out that have no interest in going to a club but like to hunt. I would often take someone out for the day hunting, find a good spot and have them humbled a bit by shooting some clays. On most occasions I start with stationary targets and then move on to straight away targets moving slowly with the spring loosened. Once I get them hitting some clays, I can slowly work on some angles. It allows us to work on basic stuff like foot work and gun mounting without the pressure of an audience. People are often embarrassed with two guys shooting on a cut line. I don't think being embarrassed in front of more people shooting at tricky presentations would add to the enjoyment.

If they truly enjoy the game they can move on to joining a club whenever they like.
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Makes sense.
 
Licensed to kill said:
Came across this pic of my superstar thrower so thought I would share. Thing works great. I had a pic on how my wheels bird is set up )more relevant to the thread) but it has eluded me to date. View attachment 1122406
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We have three of them, they are a fairly reliable machine, and Quality parts in the USA can supply most parts. The only issue we had was trying to get a replacement motor for one, it took us quite a while to source one.
 
Licensed to kill said:
Came across this pic of my superstar thrower so thought I would share. Thing works great. I had a pic on how my wheels bird is set up )more relevant to the thread) but it has eluded me to date. View attachment 1122406
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I had a pair of Promatic ATA Signature Series machines with doubles capability and 550 target capacity carousels. With the weight of them you needed a tractor with forks to move them or set up a permanent range. I ended up selling them. One went to a farmer in SK with two private trap fields on his property and the other is in AB at Nosehills Gun Club where they set it up as a dedicated doubles trap range.
 
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