[Archers] : Clay pigeon shooters

[Siegfried]

It's not 'THAT' hard.  Really depends on how the pigeons are thrown ...
if 'out away from the archer', and with a decent 'gentle loft'.   It's
possible, even if by luck :)

Reynard used to use a clay pigeon thrower, over a water hazard, at On
Target.   And people regularly got a pigeon.  (like, one of the 3
chances you had granted, but they'd get one).

Now, if you throw it at a visual angle, or with a HARD toss ... you are
screwed as an archer ;)

Siegfried


On 3/19/12 3:04 PM, Garth Groff wrote:
> M'Lady Lorelei,
> 
> Very difficult to hit a disk that small without years of practice. The
> famous trick shooter Byron Ferguson could do it. After all, he shoots
> aspirins thrown up into the air by his wife Wanda (his 9th wife, by the
> way).
> 
> Seriously though, Byron runs a shooting school in Tennessee and he uses
> something like a clay pigeon thrower to toss 12" or so styrofoam disks
> up into the air. It is sort of a final for his students, and in the film
> I saw all of them hit at least one by the of the lesson. Similar disks
> are available from 3Rivers.
> 
> Yours Aye,
> 
> 
> Mungo
> 
> On 3/19/2012 1:43 PM, loreleielkins at aol.com wrote: Has anyone ever tried
> the hand clay pigeon throwers for archery?
> 
> Curious....I think it might be fun.
> 
> 
> Lorelei
> 
> 
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