moving targets

[Intheshop]

We build high performance longbows and recurves.We took a clay pigeon thrower and modified it to throw sheetrock mud bucket lids.We then tear'm up with flu flu arrows.

A long goal has been to develop/engineer a "running boar" ,moving target system for shooting rifles.With cast boolits of course.We have plenty of safe backstop.So safety is there.

Wondering if any of ya'll had any experience with tracked,moving target systems?This is outside.

 

[RBHarter]

Just clays for me .
There is a "thrower" for a running rabbit target for sporting clays . If a person shoots a sufficient number of simple crossing low targets, think a 30 degree away and 10 degree up target with fast light shot charges you get the same results. The 1st boar I killed was on a full greyhound stretch run with a 45 Colts 92' carbine . I guess the duck and quail muscle memory took over, I even saw the hit .
Just idle thoughts .
Hanging track loop with a push tire on a motor maybe for recycling endless targets.

 

[Intheshop]

30 degree away,got it.

We have a professional,albeit short,3D archery course here.Main use is for customers and tune up for competition.As such,one of our stations is rolling bucket lids down hill .But,we're doing crossing shots.We'll switch that up to,"going away".

Thanks for the brain jog.We can do that easily with our cast boolit rifles.

Hey,it's a start.

 

[Intheshop]

Oh,and thanks for the boar story!

Back when I was guiding hunts...was sitting 12 yds from the greatest bow shot this hillbilly ever saw....

"Client" was using an original '59 Bear Kodiack,and laced a beautiful 10* buck on a greyhound run.

My jaw hit the ground,it was that close.

 

[smokeywolf]

Used to design and build multi-axis motion control for cameras, but I'm afraid that hardware would be a bit pricey for steel targets.

Think I would be looking at something like the designs used for powered driveway/entry gates on tracks. You see them all the time at RV and self storage places. Put limit switches on each end so that when the target reaches the end of it's travel, limit switch reverses it and sends it back to the other end of the track.

 

[Intheshop]

Smokey,interesting....

Have been around some driveway gates.Doing a (you wouldn't believe how many million $ project) job now with one,and was going over the details today.But articulation is what you've brought to mind.We've used it in bow production to "slow" certain grinding operations.Just sayin,that might work easier than having a single,end to end track.A short stroke system working an articulated arm.

Thanks,BW.(BW Smith).

 

[RBHarter]

The shallow crossing 30* as opposed to the semi straight away 30 degree.

Outside birds and rabbits the boar was the only running shot I have ever made or taken .
Maybe it is just me but mastering the slow over head and crossing was much more difficult than the rising going away shot.
The running rabbit targets I've heard are quite challenging, especially if it is set up on an oscillating base where the hops and curve can change randomly.

 

[Intheshop]

Working with engineers now on some rolling track systems for a 1200# door we made....

Just sitting there,suffering through meetings thinking about a good cast boolit rifle.And some stone simple way of setting it up.

Gotcha RB on the angles,figured that's what you were describing.

Did well at a Fla st bowshoot years ago.They called it,"turbo hog".Had a bloomin ethafoam Pickering(sp) on a track with a dang stretched out industrial surgical hose.Must've been going 30 mph,ripping through whatever that under brush stuff they have...palmetto?Put on a clinic,haha.