Anyone using Lawry targets?

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What is your experience with them?
We just got a few pallets of them to throw for practice.
They seem to break ok, and we don't have a noticeable difference in broken targets off the machine.
Our gripe with them is the inconsistent paint.
Personally, I don't have any trouble with a pale target, or one with not much paint on top, but some of the older guys with older eyes do. And seeing a different looking target come out of the machine is distracting.
Sounds like we'll keep throwing white flyers for tournaments, and just use Lawrys for practice.
 
You just can't let the little things like faded colors on your target distract you, at least that's what most good shooters will tell you and frankly I think they're right. Some older shooters (and I'm probably one of them) will gripe just for the sake of griping!
 
Never ever had issues with Lawry targets. Can't say the same for our last order of white flyers. We probably get 25-35 coming off the machines disintegrated for every full squad shooting singles. We have gone over the machines, swapped the fields with one throwing doubles and the other singles and once we set the machines with the radar gun for proper speeds the targets just keep coming apart. Not as many on doubles but that 4mph speed difference between singles and doubles seems to be huge! Only thing we can figure is we got a real bad batch. I've suggested going with Lawry but one of the fellows in charge is very opposed as he thinks Lawry targets are harder to break as he thinks they are a softer compound? I've never seen this many broken targets? My personal opinion is its a machines issue as we are not experiencing any breakage on the skeet field!
 
We shoot a container full every season, no issues. Some of the trap guys say they prefer white flyer because of the crisper paint edge. One guy claims the overspray onto the black edge of the clay creates a blurry target for him. I've never had an issue with blurry targets on our sporting clays field. :rolleyes:
 
I use my Lawry clays to play on the week ends at the cabin and enjoy the different paint colors with new shooters. I use the pink ones for targets in 3 gun as well. i store my cabin targets in less then ideal conditions next to the life jackets and am impressed with how well the stand up being launched from a simple spring loaded thrower after months Or seasons of poor storage conditions.
 
the spank said:
Never ever had issues with Lawry targets. Can't say the same for our last order of white flyers. We probably get 25-35 coming off the machines disintegrated for every full squad shooting singles. We have gone over the machines, swapped the fields with one throwing doubles and the other singles and once we set the machines with the radar gun for proper speeds the targets just keep coming apart. Not as many on doubles but that 4mph speed difference between singles and doubles seems to be huge! Only thing we can figure is we got a real bad batch. I've suggested going with Lawry but one of the fellows in charge is very opposed as he thinks Lawry targets are harder to break as he thinks they are a softer compound? I've never seen this many broken targets? My personal opinion is its a machines issue as we are not experiencing any breakage on the skeet field!
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Sounds to me like a machine issue Spank, we're not having any problems with white flyers.
 
the spank said:
Never ever had issues with Lawry targets. Can't say the same for our last order of white flyers. We probably get 25-35 coming off the machines disintegrated for every full squad shooting singles. We have gone over the machines, swapped the fields with one throwing doubles and the other singles and once we set the machines with the radar gun for proper speeds the targets just keep coming apart. Not as many on doubles but that 4mph speed difference between singles and doubles seems to be huge! Only thing we can figure is we got a real bad batch. I've suggested going with Lawry but one of the fellows in charge is very opposed as he thinks Lawry targets are harder to break as he thinks they are a softer compound? I've never seen this many broken targets? My personal opinion is its a machines issue as we are not experiencing any breakage on the skeet field!
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The fact that you don't have the issue on the skeet field, points to a machine issue.
 
Club i shoot at throws lawry targets for trap and skeet and i have no complaints with them. When i go to a club with white flyers i do note they are more vibrant in color but does not seem to phase me. not to many broken targets at all out of the skeet field.
 
We throw Lawry as well. They are just as good a target. We’ve had three loads since the fall and starting with that fall batch the paint quality has definitely changed. They are more pale and they are not consistent.

Doesn’t bother me when shooting them. Bothers me when loading them knowing we are getting less than we used to.
 
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