Thousand shells now days is about two hundred bucks,thousand clay birds about two hundred bucks.Twenty five thousand birds for pratice going to the grand ten thousand bucks,what a hobby.
The way to save money on ammo is to limit your shooting, in the pigeon ring, for example. A practice round only involves two mandatory shots at 5 flyers released at random from an array of 9 traps; that's 10 shells for those who vote in Florida. The downside is that the practice round will cost at least $35.
A "flyer" race is generally 20 birds; thats only 40 shots, so add a practice round and you only blow off two boxes of ammo. But the more adept live-bird guys use Hevi-shot at about $2.00 per pop, not the $3.98-for-25 stuff I mentioned. And the targets cost at least $7.00 each.
So lemme get out the calculator: $7.00 for the target, two shots mandatory with $2.00 ammo, and something for the ring, bird boys, and trapper...and then there are the preliminary rounds, practice rounds, side bets, and "miss and outs" leading up to the main race... Ping Pong is starting to look real cost effective. EDM
