Some people...

[Stefan-A]

A lot of people use them for recreational shooting with anything from shotguns to handguns to rifles, but I never liked clay pigeons. It's still too much to clean up afterwards. After a good day of shooting, the landscape's littered with brightly colored pieces. I prefer paper or metal targets.

[drache]

Originally Posted by Stefan-A

A lot of people use them for recreational shooting with anything from shotguns to handguns to rifles, but I never liked clay pigeons. It's still too much to clean up afterwards. After a good day of shooting, the landscape's littered with brightly colored pieces.

I didn't know that they come in colours now
it's been a long time . . .
the ones my family used were plain clay, and since this was usually done up in the woods, the stuff pretty much biodegraded back into the soil in a year or two, which in our region had a high content of clay anyway

[Stefan-A]

The ones they sell here are bright orange, but completely biodegradable. It's more of an aesthetics issue.

[abcat1993]

I was shooting them while we threw them out on a frozen lake over the winter, so I hope they biodegraded already or I might have some painful feet.

[drache]

why would they make them bright orange?
that's not generally a common bird colour
I'm puzzled
wouldn't it be better for practice (more challenging) not to make them more visible?
I guess they do that for the poor fools wandering into your range, but I'm not clear how you would duck a clay pigeon, even if it was brightly coloured. From the way they traject I would think they'd never come from where you can see them unless you happen to look up. So the bright colouring is only useful to bird watchers.
What's wrong with me, that I always want to find reasonable explanations for everything?

[Stefan-A]

Originally Posted by drache

why would they make them bright orange?
that's not generally a common bird colour

To make them easier for the shooter to see and to make hits easier to spot and it's not a common bird shape either.

I'm puzzled
wouldn't it be better for practice (more challenging) not to make them more visible?

No, because the point is to practice your shooting technique.

[drache]

Originally Posted by Stefan-A

To make them easier for the shooter to see and to make hits easier to spot and it's not a common bird shape either.


No, because the point is to practice your shooting technique.

of course
I missed that point
perhaps because I too am appalled at the visual impact and don't want there to be a good reason for it
my first though after reading your post was:
the colour can hardly make that much difference when seen against the sky
oh well
it is what it is

[darcy]

we've had a bunch out on the roads right now.... Mostly garters and bull snakes, who I try to urge them from sunning themselves where they are likely to be hurt, seems I've removed someone from the road everyday this week! Last Labor Day I was going to work at the local National Park and saw a snake in the road, thinking it was a bull snake who love to sun themselves on the roads in the fall around here, I stopped to shoo her off the road, there was tons of traffic and there I am pointing to the snake on the road so people wouldn't hit it. Finally I got a traffic free moment and noticed it was a rattlesnake..... Let's just say I kept my distance, but I did my best to scare her off the road from a distance anyway.

I come from a hunting family, and I choose not to hunt, I tell my son that if he wants to hunt that it is okay, he just better make full use of the animal he kills. I know some people enjoy killing other things but that's not my thing, and not the thing I hope to impart to my child.

I try to teach my son the value of all creatures big and small, and I try to learn all I can about the creatures I fear the most so that I may learn to appreciate rather than fear them.