Clay chucker ??

All depends on what you plan on doing, I have 2 hand chuckers, 1 spring loaded mounted to a tire(mainly for doubles) and the electric as well runs off extra car battery.
All have there time and place, if it plan on chucking a box plus in a day I would suggest an electronic chucker with a nice long foot petal
 
Check around with the local clubs, and you might find some good used machines that were replaced with newer machines. We finally replaced our old Winchesters last summer, to go to machines that don't have to be refilled after every round. If I was buying new, I would be looking at MEC, they make some reasonably priced machines that would work well for a small club or an individual.
 
How much do you want to spend? Pat Traps aren't cheap, our club just bought one.

For personal use I've got a Fowl Play battery powered chucker, but prefer the hand tossed clays for the random flight paths
 
Has anyone seen what I would call a “bunny chucker”? To throw/skip or bounce clays like a bunny for practice on that front?
Maybe clays are the wrong product for this, but I don’t know.
 
JToews said:
Has anyone seen what I would call a “bunny chucker”? To throw/skip or bounce clays like a bunny for practice on that front?
Maybe clays are the wrong product for this, but I don’t know.
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They are common on sporting clays courses, and many companies market them. You can buy manual or powered units. You do have to purchase special clays to throw in them, because the regular clays will not hold together when they hit the ground.
 
JToews said:
Has anyone seen what I would call a “bunny chucker”? To throw/skip or bounce clays like a bunny for practice on that front?
Maybe clays are the wrong product for this, but I don’t know.
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Lincoln makes a manual machine which is quite versatile. Install the rabbit arm and throw single or double rabbit targets. Install the regular arm and throw regular targets including mini, midi and battue. You wont get much change from a $1000 however. You need someone to operate the machine and need to pay particular attention to safety if throwing rabbit or battue targets face on. Google "Lincoln traps". I think Lawry's might sell them.
 
Anvil109 said:
Hi guys, wondering what machines you all use to throw birds?
We’re looking at buying one. Perhaps you can suggest a make/model.
Thank you in advance
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If you’re looking for a manually operated thrower you’ll have a long ways to go to beat a Lincoln. Fantastic machines, lots of throwing arms for different style clays and presentations available and various mounting capabilities.
 
We use winchester. Pat. Promatic and atlas. I like the atlass machines myself

We have an atlass that throws teal and rabbits. Also a promatic rabbit thrower
 
Our sister club used Atlas traps for the first 2 years, went through 2 before ordering a new Pat this year. Drive motors aren't cheap for any of them, we replaced one on one of our Beomats a few years back, the $800 hurt, having out of use for 3 months hurt worse. The nearest sporting clays club is Fredericton, most of their traps are now Promatic, they tried a number of different brands before settling on them.

Edit; I was mistaken, the sporting claysclub I mentioned is using a mix of mostly Laporte & Atlas machines, with a few others thrown in for good measure. Speaking with the course setter/Secretary yesterday.
 
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As a comment on longevity -

Our little club has a Western V1524 Trap machine with a Western Retro carousel - This Western trap machine has to be over 50, maybe 60 years old and still running fine. Parts are available from Western Retro, or various suppliers in the US. We had Ian Brotherson at Western Retro look over our machine before we installed the carousel, and he replaced a bushing or two - absolutely minimal service work.
There are lots of these old machines around the country, and some very cheap. You need to become a trap machine mechanic if you go this route, but I think that you need to get to really know any machine that you are going to live with for many years. These old machines are reliable workhorses.
This stands in stark contrast to some experiences related in this thread.
 
Agreed, we have 5 in regular use, ours are single stack skeet models, other than the fact they are hydro-inefficient, they are nearly indestructible. Not to mention they still after 55 years of use still throw the most consistent targets of any machine on the market.
 
We have the old Winchester trap and skeet throwers, and an Atlas AT-250. The old machines have been extremely reliable over the years, cant say the same for the Atlas, which has required a fair amount of upkeep - and its only 2 years old...
 
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