Weekend Photo: Shootin' Clays
Published: June 7th, 2015
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Shooting hand thrown clay pigeons with a Mossberg 500 crown grade on BLM land near the Mexican border in San Diego county.
How many folks prefer hand throwing rather than using a hand launcher? I find using a decent launcher, like the WIng One I reviewed earlier this week, far easier and well worth the small cost of the launcher. They review far less effort and I can throw much further, at a cost of throwing them slower.
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Unless I know you have a quality launcher. I usually prefer to hand launch it's quicker and less like to break clays. I hate it when the launcher shatters the clay while it fires.
If you got someone with you to throw while you shoot a hand thrower is better, if for no other reason than the flight path is more unpredictable than a mechanical thrower, I used to have a thrower for solo practice at home, mounted it on a tire so it was easier to change the path of the clay.