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Just bought a “Super Star” carousel style clay thrower. Came with a long cable with a button pad for releasing the clays, I would rather a voice command release is they work well and don’t cost a horrendous amount. I have a foot switch to release the clays on my other thrower but would prefer voice. Will go with another foot switch if that is what I have to do but just looking for advice on which way to go and what makes/models to look at. Thanks.
 
Arcosdad said:
We use voice at our club but I find it a bit of a pita. You can't speak to anyone and if you're not careful, the sound of a semi bolt going into battery sets it off. But they're popular that's for sure.
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I wondered about how a voice activated system deals with peripheral noise. In my case I don’t think that would be an issue since I only shoot sxs’s (so no bolt slamming home) and shoot alone so nobody to talk to.
 
Voice activated systems vary in their sensitivity. My club uses the Canterbury system from NZ.
As a whole, it works well enough, though there can be bad days where the mics almost seem deaf.

Pull.
PULL.
PULL!!!

On very windy days, there is a sponge ring that gets stuffed into the cone of the microphone.
 
While many trap ranges use a Canterburry system, we did have a voice release system for shooting skeet alone, at my last club. It worked quite well, less sensitive to wind and background noise than the Canterbury system. I can't recall the brand or model.
 
We use Canterbury system for our trap fields but the skeet field has a wireless remote system with 3 buttons, high, low and doubles so you need 2 people one shooting and one pulling with the remote, The mic's on the trap field are sensitive and you cannot talk when your on the line otherwise you are wasting clay's, if the wind is really howling it will set off the mic's and we have at time had to shut them off and use the controller to manually pull, very rare through because if it's that windy nobody wants to shoot anyway
 
Just looking online, I found the voice system that we had for skeet, it is made by Long Range. You choose a machine or doubles, with the buttons, then activate it by voice. These systems are actually quite reasonably priced, less than $250US, and are quite small compared to the Canterbury system. We use Superstars on our range, most parts are still available from US sources, but some are difficult to find, and expensive.The Superstars are quite reliable, but the o-rings on the rollers that feed the clays to the elevators crack and will fail if not replaced regularly. The coupling gap is something to check if the machine starts throwing targets non stop, and we have had a couple of main motors fail, which we had to have rewound.
 
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