So question.
In my club there are some rumors of converting a few of the stands to 'cardlock' style where you pay and it is automated.. what mechanism knows what stand you are on? does it work with multiple shooters? or only when you are out there solo...
Thanks
C
If it's like the automated skeet system they had at Langley BC when I was a member there a couple years back, it does not know what station you're on -- it just serves you up X many targets. In that system, they sold you tokens, which you put in the machine and it gave you a full 25 birds plus an extra couple in case of bad birds. It was up to the members on a squad to get their tokens in the machine together and then initiate the skeet round. Obviously, a busted gun or some other interruption (or yahoos taking more than their share of targets) could cause problems. In that particular field, they did not allow solo skeet, but that was a safety issue about trying to pull and shoot at the same time. Solo trap with the token system worked fine there though, due to the microphones.
If it's cardlock, it may be like the cardlock system they have on the sporting clays course at Galt, here in Ontario. With that system, you pay your money and get a card with X many targets on it. Then you take the card to the stations and swipe it, then shoot as many targets as you want at that station. It's quite convenient that way -- you can shoot whichever stations you want, however many targets you want, in whatever order you want. Pricey system though -- each of the 15 or so stations has an electronic machine.
My guess from your description is that it would probably be a system like the latter, except with only a single card swipe machine. The card will give you X many targets for X many dollars, and the machine won't actually know (or care) which station you're on when you're shooting. A swipe in the machine deducts 25ish targets from your card; the launcher then will dole out 25ish targets.
Hope it works out!
