Smoking Crack is cheaper than shooting but much harder on the body. Shooting is an expensive hobby but one we choose to do. I know prices in some prices are out of sight, I just ignore those areas. If I told you how much I spent on fields for Dove this year, who decided to mostly migrate South a week before the season opener, you might tell me go shoot $1 clay targets and save money. My harvest was 90% below the five year running average of birds harvested. In part that was because we had so few birds that could not give friends a good experience shooting so this year was a bust for them. But I'll be back next year, doing the same thing and not questioning if clay targets are cheaper. They are, even at $1/ bird. I just do not get early as much pleasure shooting them. They are a filler, between seasons for me at this point.
