Clay pigeon biodegradable?

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Do normal clay pigeons break down in sun and water?? If not is there any of the biodegradable ones available in Canada? any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Normal clay pigeons are made of pitch, and will not degrade, although they will eventually crumble to dust. Biodegradable targets are available. They cost a little more and seem to have a higher percentage of broken birds in the box as well as a larger number which break on launching. For those reasons they are not popular with clubs that throw a lot of clays.

Sharptail
 
beretta boy said:
... and you can pick-up & re-use a lot of those you don't hit !
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Nothing wrong with shooting pick-ups. The depressing part though is how many whole targets have pellet holes in them and didn't break.:mad:
 
diananike said:
Do normal clay pigeons break down in sun and water?? If not is there any of the biodegradable ones available in Canada? any help would be greatly appreciated.
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The Lawry Precision Targets clays that Canadian Tire sells claim to be biodegradable. I suppose they are, but they don't biodegrade very quickly, even when shot :).

I use this old gravel pit on my dad's land to shoot clays in, and am planning to head out there tomorrow and clean up all the mess from last season's shooting.

:shotgun: And then make some more :).
 
rdelliott said:
The Lawry Precision Targets clays that Canadian Tire sells claim to be biodegradable. I suppose they are, but they don't biodegrade very quickly, even when shot :).
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I think you will find that Lawry targets are actually described as 'Environmentally Friendly' rather than 'biodegradable'. They have gone through signicant testing to show that their targets won't hurt anything as they sit on the ground, but they don't actually make a claim of biodegradable.

http://www.lawryshootingsports.com/lawry.pdf

Brad.
 
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Also It helps if they are not painted bright orange. :D

I just noticed at our local trap range a very festive orange backstop appeared after the past couple of fun shoots I missed. :D
 
If they are actually made of clay I don't get what's the issue. It might not "biodegrade" but minerals rarely do IMHO...
Dust to dust kinda thing.
 
Ix said:
If they are actually made of clay I don't get what's the issue. It might not "biodegrade" but minerals rarely do IMHO...
Dust to dust kinda thing.
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They aren't made of clay but a combination of limestone, coal tar pitch and colouring.
 
limestone and coal works fine with my dust to dust point of view, maybe even colouring depending what they use... but tar is an other story.
thanks claybuster.
 
Anyone know the best source of straight black clays?

I shoot the True Flight (or whatever) that are bright orange, and they leave too much 'visible debris' at the farm where I shoot, and would like to get my hands on black full size clays.

Wholesale/Russells always just carry ORANGE!
 
One thing you need to know about bios is they have more sulphur in them and tend to change the ph towards acidic. This tends to kill any vegatation. As well acidic and lead aren't good.
 
canucklehead said:
Anyone know the best source of straight black clays?

I shoot the True Flight (or whatever) that are bright orange, and they leave too much 'visible debris' at the farm where I shoot, and would like to get my hands on black full size clays.

Wholesale/Russells always just carry ORANGE!
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I get most of my clays at Canadian Tire. Sometimes they're black, sometimes they're orange. Just depends on what they have in stock. I'm sure if you asked, they would order their next shipment in black only.
 
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