As I have said I was not keen about this clay thrower but I have had a word with some shooting buddies and still waiting replies from one or two others who are old enough to remember them and some information on their construction. At this point I should say my friends feelings on the subject of the “Whirly Bird” are the same as mine and some chose to describe it as the “devils clay trap” another “not that God awful thing” and “have you lost your senses or has your brain gone soft” all accompanied with some Anglo Saxon four letter expletives I could not possibly use in this post.
From what I can make out of the conversations so far the thrower has a couple of variants but they still work on the same principal so as we say over here I have started working on the back of a “Fag packet” drawing of the expletive! Thing!!!
Though I am a little surprised that another Brit member has not come in on this post which has started me thinking this thrower was only used locally in Cheshire during the 1970s, also up to now no photographs.
