For anyone else interested, I ended up finding a Champion WheelyBird 2.0 for $269 which is the cheapest by $150 I could find anywhere and free shipping.
Find the Champion Wheelybird 2.0 Auto Feed Trap at Rogers Sporting Goods. Always Free Shipping over $99!
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Update and Question at the end.
I just wanted to follow up from my thread on clay shooting at HSA.
I picked up the Mossberg 940 JM Pro couple of Wednesdays back from the local FFL that it was shipped too. The WheelyBird 2.0 was delivered that Friday as well.
Took about 30 minutes to assemble the WheelyBird, very simple and easy to build. The packaging was heavy that it came in, but it had plywood in the box, which added to the weight. Once built, it is not that heavy to lift in and out of the truck, nice surprise. The clay thrower has nice solid wheels and comes with both 25ft corded foot pedal and RF remote.
It's powered by a 12 volt cheap lawn tractor/mower battery with simple alligator clips.
My son and I went to HSA last Sunday to shoot the 940 for the first time. I've only ever shot someone else's shotgun before, one of the competition shooters let me try theirs, one Wednesday evening many years back. My son has been to some clay shooting event with his friends in RI were you rent the shotgun and walk some sort of course.
Sunday morning at HSA the Shotgun range is open to the public, being relative newbies, we introduced ourselves to three gentlemen on the trap course, Explained we are members and had no clue of the rules and this our first outing with a Shotgun & an unfired new gun as well.
I can not thank these guys enough, they were done for the day, but they offered to do another round of trap with my son and I. They walked us through the rules, we did all 5 stations with them. Huge thank you to that group. We owe you a beer or at least a round of Trap on us.
The 940 shot flawlessly, ran 100% with light target loads brand new out of the box. There was hardly any felt recoil, my Ruger precision 308 kicks a hell of a lot more than the 940.
As expected first time out, we missed more than we hit, but we did manage to hit a few.
After we finished and we thanked them, we decided that we would set up our WheelyBird 2.0 to practice with, theory being that we would have consistent throw path and would be easier to learn how to get on the clay and how much lead was needed.
This worked out great, standing behind the clay thrower was a lot easier and we got to the point we could hit them all. With the remote we where able to walk around the thrower for different angles, some where harder than others to hit.
We put about 350 shells through that day and I have to say we had a great time, hand gun and rifle shooting is fun, but becomes a bit laborious hitting the same target over and over again.
I have to say everyone was really nice, there where two gentleman in the hut that look after the shooting range on Sunday and run the traps. They both saw we where new and came over to offer advice and correct us on how we where shooting, again huge thank you.
One side note, we got the WheelyBird 2.0 at 50% off, really good deal, if you were inclined you could buy two or more and the same RF remote could be sync'd and operate them all.
There is a delay you can set on the receiver from 0-15 seconds delay from when you press the button. Idea is that if you are a lone you can press the button on the remote and put the remote down before the clay is released, not an issue if you have some one else with you. However you could have multiple WheelyBird 2.0 running off the same remote and all releasing at sightly different times, a few seconds apart or all at once.
Here are a couple of videos, we are both new to not that good yet.
Question:
Calling any electronic power experts:
We're using a 12 volt lawn tractor/mower battery with alligator clips, no issue, works fine. I wouldn't mind having a cleaner unit, like a power bank that could do more like charge things in the house on power outage etc.
Would this work? it's on sale with $100 off.
View: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B4K3LV52
Thanks
Harry
