None for clays. whether open as to shotgun choices, or limited to side-by-sides. That $500 buys me three tower released shoots at our area pheasant club, held on Saturdays from Jan through April-- 10 stations around FULL CIRCLE, GOOD SAFE TOWER FOR THE guys who get the roosters and hens airborne, great dog work, lunch and a fine pick-up hunt apres lunch. No booze, safety rules and zones of fire strictly enforced, and all guns must be open and unloaded between stand and en route to and from the clubhouse to the shooting field. You are guaranteed birds, picked and bagged in Zip-Lok bags to take home, and pen raised pheasants sure taste better than those skeets do-- And way cheaper that a 4 day trip in Nov. to SD--
I get my off-season practice on barn pigeons and crows and starlings- clays are great, and SC is a social game like golf- but no clay thrown by a machine can replicate the flight of a blue rock pigeon who has just side-slipped away from a charge of No. 8 chilled- IMO anyway.
