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Our club is looking at purchasing new skeet machines. I am looking for advice or information from skeet shooters on what machines they prefer or which to avoid. We currently run Beomat. I would also like to hear if anyone has experience with skeet machines from MEC or Promatic. I find the simplicity of these machines appealing but wonder about target consistency and longevity. I have a lot of experience with Promatic Sporting traps and find them to be great, but wonder if they or MEC make a skeet trap worth buying.

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Promatic, in my opinion are ne of the finest machines out there. Very rugged and durable. Mec look good seen some used for sporting clay and they tell me there are working out. They are kind of the new kid on the block, so hard to tell how they will hold up, but they look well built. Good luck with your search for machines
 
If the money isn't an object, Pat trap is where I would look. We have a mix of Beomat, Pat, Winchester and Promatic traps, the Promatics are good, the Pats almost never cause me grief.
 
I think you need to ask what you are trying to accomplish when selecting skeet traps.

Do you just want targets in the air, or do you want GOOD targets in the air? Do you want them close to the stakes, or repeatably dead on the stakes?

Beomats are the Cadillac of skeet machines. If you maintain them, you can set a reliable and repeatable target. They are costly, but IMHO you get what you pay for.

Laporte traps are widely in use by skeet clubs looking to throw competition targets.

Pat traps may work if you've got a hydraulic guy and/or already use them for trap. I've heard complaints about the performance of the "rubber band". They may not have all the fancy adjustments that you'd see on others.

Mattarelli has a pretty cost effective machine, but it will be a lot of work to keep them throwing GOOD targets.

I don't know enough about MEC or Promatic skeet machines to comment. The MEC is fairly new. Time will tell how they stand up and perform.
 
We at the Oshawa Clay & Target Club replaced all of our skeet machines with Promatic Signarure Series Skeet machines. They are the most durable maintenance free machines that we ever had. Promatics are very user friendly as they need very little attention to set up. We have used for many years Beomat skeet machines and they've been very good machines for the club. The only difference is that they are complicated to keep operating. The newer technology of Promatics makes the far superior to operate and maintain. We have ten of Promatic signature skeet machines, four of Promatic signature trap machines and seventy two of the Super sporter sporting clay machines.
On another note they also have great technical and service support which is very important for anyone opertating a club.
 
bmcrae said:
I think you need to ask what you are trying to accomplish when selecting skeet traps.

Do you just want targets in the air, or do you want GOOD targets in the air? Do you want them close to the stakes, or repeatably dead on the stakes?

Beomats are the Cadillac of skeet machines. If you maintain them, you can set a reliable and repeatable target. They are costly, but IMHO you get what you pay for.

Laporte traps are widely in use by skeet clubs looking to throw competition targets.

Pat traps may work if you've got a hydraulic guy and/or already use them for trap. I've heard complaints about the performance of the "rubber band". They may not have all the fancy adjustments that you'd see on others.

Mattarelli has a pretty cost effective machine, but it will be a lot of work to keep them throwing GOOD targets.

I don't know enough about MEC or Promatic skeet machines to comment. The MEC is fairly new. Time will tell how they stand up and perform.
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Laporte traps are quite simple and reliable. They are also quite versatile in the hands of a crafty old sporting clays course setup designer.
 
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