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Actually hundreds of blast. Scatter guns. Trap.
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It's a bit crude, but we made do with what we have. It's that time of year when Arkansas Youth Shooting Sports Program aka AYSSP gets spooled up for annual competitions. Most clubs/groups start out in a cow pasture with primitive infrastructure, but this seems to actually benefit them when they get on a real trap shoot.
This is the fun before the bitter freeze, sleet, snow, freezing rain, etc which is forecast starting tomorrow night. Sunny and 67 right now.
 
Looks good and will be fun I'm sure.
I'm not a shotgun/skeet guy but have seen others do it here and it does look like something I might have to try. Take some pictures and follow up this thread.
How expensive are those machines?
Are the targets quickly biodegradable or do you have to walk around and pick up the pieces afterward?
When they shot skeet in my pasture, there were hard pieces of orange everywhere even after a heavy long rain, and I was afraid the cows would ingest one while grazing so wife and I went around picked every piece up we could find.
 
I tried to take video, but my phone told me it was to full.
The direction we have it set up, most the clays and lead land over a steep hillside which is growing up in a thicket of young pine timber. The cattle never enter that area. Wish I could have gotten some video.
 
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M-5":2xl2brlm said:
I love to just shoot. We did that sleet shoot last year and it was fun keeping score. I got to go do it again
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Dang good shots if you can hit a frozen pellet of sleet as it falls from the sky.
 
greybeard":2e88216e said:
M-5":2e88216e said:
I love to just shoot. We did that sleet shoot last year and it was fun keeping score. I got to go do it again
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Dang good shots if you can hit a frozen pellet of sleet as it falls from the sky.
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and able to keep score!
Very impressive!
 
GB, I don't own the machine. The local 4-H group owns it. I don't have any idea what this model cost new, but I think they got it for $500. It had some minor problems that took about 2 hours labor including a little machining with a lathe, and now functions as advertised.
 
I really wish I knew how to post video. My pictures in the first post were before all the kids arrived. They all had fun. I took a short video of my son shooting a test round, and then when the other kids arrived my phone told me it was to full to take more video. That bothered me because I had offered to video the group for the parents and 4-H group. Anyhow, the video I did get isn't very good. You can't see the clays turning to dust. We all had fun, and there were a couple youngsters that had never shot clays. They'll be back for sure. Even the parents had fun, and that was a refreshing surprise for Tina and I. We typically have parents just drop the kids off and tell us to "call us when y'all are ready for us to come get em"
 
So here's a question for all ya'll. On most every box of clay pigeons it says to not use where there be hogs. Since most of you live in hog infested areas has anyone ever tried busting these up around where hogs are known to frequent, and see if they are actually toxic to the porcine community.
 
3waycross":tzaube6w said:
So here's a question for all ya'll. On most every box of clay pigeons it says to not use where there be hogs. Since most of you live in hog infested areas has anyone ever tried busting these up around where hogs are known to frequent, and see if they are actually toxic to the porcine community.
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I have not but will now. Wonder if that would be considered baiting?
 
Never tried it on purpose. If it really is effective, it would seem to be an otherwise environmentally friendly way to control them. My curiosity is piqued.
 
If I knew of such thing, I would likely have a Brian Williams moment when asked.

Supposedly, the difference in stomach type makes it more lethal for pigs, vs ruminants/others.

From my understanding, same type component as is in tar paper. Causes liver failure if I remember.

Think it would be a challenge to limit exposure to other animals if mixing in grain, and I wouldn't know about humane aspects.
 

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