shooting clays on crown land

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I'll be going on a quad trip soon and plan to bring the mossberg into the bush for bear defence at camp - I may carry it on the quad too just in case we end up walking back to camp one night. I have a honda so I know I won't be walking.

The question is about shooting clays on crown land in our downtime, we will be random camping so finding space to shoot won't be a problem but the mess clays make could be.

I know they are biodegradeable but I don't want to sh$t where I eat. Any of youknow how long these clays take to dissolve? - I have the orange ones...

is shooting 100 clays likely to make a visible mess? any suggestions?

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fed007
 
rain takes the color out, I wouldn't worry to much, we shoot lots of clays every year over cutblocks.

Police up your Hulls, and in a couple years no one will know you were there.
 
I don't believe all clay birds are biodegradable , I think some are/or were clay and some kind of oil product. Would be interested to know for sure if they are biodegradable .
 
They don't degrade all that fast, nor does the paint bleach all that fast.
Bio degrade faster, but many of them, if they are white flyer bios kill any vegetation.

If you are really concerned about visual pollution, shoot black ones. No one will notice. Orange one will be there a long time.
 
Like Doug said ... x 2

Still bits of broken orange (now pale pink) clays visible at the farm "Back 40"
FIVE YEARS AFTER THE FACT.

They are made form pitch & limestone (and paint)... they really don't degrade much at all, other than get worn down by the elements over time.
Bio-degradable HA ! ... but perhaps not a big bio-concern re: wildlife. ( They used to be labelled "do not use around livestock" (particularly pigs)... for some reason. Go figure. )
 
Littering?

So if you and a group of friends are shooting clays on Crown Land and a CO happens upon you; can he or other type of officer fine you for littering?

We clean up our hulls of course but I have always wanted to know if you could be fined.

SS
 
They do make specifically bio-degradable environmentally friendly clays. I forget the manufacturer but they are available.
 
Laporte make a bio degradeable clay and when I paid £700 for a 75 bird trap they threw in a pallett of 30 boxes of 150 in each!
 
haha yeah even the tho the box may say biodegradable, they will be around for a while... me and my buddy shot some clays about a year ago and we found some pieces last weekend aswell as a ton of shotgun wads laying allover the place!


yeah if you can find all black clays that would be prime.
 
BEARMAN said:
I don't believe all clay birds are biodegradable , I think some are/or were clay and some kind of oil product. Would be interested to know for sure if they are biodegradable .
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I have a box of biodegradable ones.
White flyer makes them.
It says Biodegradable on the side.

just as cheap as the regular ones.
But worry not about them. Our skeet/trap range has grass under the area that gets over 2000 clays every week. The grass is finea nd green.

They are called clay because tey are made of such...;)
 
eltorro said:
They are called clay because tey are made of such...;)
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They haven't been made with clay for over a century. The current composition of standard clays targets is limestone, coal-tar pitch and paint.

The biodegradables usually replace the coal-tar with an oil-based pitch. Coal-tar pitch is hazardous to some livestock notably pigs.
 
beretta boy said:
Still bits of broken orange (now pale pink) clays visible at the farm "Back 40"
FIVE YEARS AFTER THE FACT.

They are made form pitch & limestone (and paint)... they really don't degrade much at all, other than get worn down by the elements over time.
Bio-degradable HA ! ... but perhaps not a big bio-concern re: wildlife. ( They used to be labelled "do not use around livestock" (particularly pigs)... for some reason. Go figure. )
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Pigs will eat them and eventually die from it. I don't know about any other livestock.
 
Claybuster said:
They haven't been made with clay for over a century. The current composition of standard clays targets is limestone, coal-tar pitch and paint.

The biodegradables usually replace the coal-tar with an oil-based pitch. Coal-tar pitch is hazardous to some livestock notably pigs.
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Now that I didn't know.....
The clay composition was a joke, but I didn't know about the perils that await the livestock.... I would definately shoot a the pigs first and clays later.... ove rthe barbecue :D
 
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