Our club president pushed for a counter system on sporting clays but was voted down. They use a considerable number more birds on the 100 target course. He naturally blamed it on theft. True there is some theft. But when I go to a station that throws doubles and one trap repeatedly breaks targets that is 2 targets lost. If the boys are rough when loading machines that is more targets lost. When I see a pile of broken targets near a trap and there are a number of whole ones that the boys are to lazy to pick up I point that out to my members. They drive the loaded target carts fast over rough ground and that is more targets lost. Many targets could be saved by simple enforcement with the boys but I have not seen a word said. Hell if I was running it I would have them picking up whole targets for reuse. I guess we are just to good for that though. We wouldn't want to look like bumbs picking up cigarete butts! If I were dictator....
