Hand pulled targets ATA

Is it a rule that all ATA targets must be voice activated?

 

No!

 

You would not want to shoot over a Pat trap with hand pulls. They have a built in slow pull problem. The only thing that makes them reasonably quick on a pull is the voice activation. They are a motor surge fire machine, just like the Remington was. That is one of the reasons the Remington was not as popular as the Winchester X machine. I f you hooked up a Pat and an X mach. to the same pull cord the X machine would be 10 ft or more out of the house before you seen the target off of the Pat. Sad but true. Roger C.

 

Which equals about one sixth of a second.

 

And your point is? Roger C.

 

I shot some of my best scores over Winchester Arm Buster traps with excellent human pullers.

 

8/10ths

 

I have had to hand pull PAT's several times and not one shooter noticed or said anything.

 

That is because they do not know how much better the X machine was on target presentation than the Pat Traps are. Many of todays shooters never experienced having a good puller and an X machine. Only machines that fire off of a solonoid can come close to the old X -TRAP' Roger C.

 

I hand pull a Pat Trap at our club Every Thursday & Friday night

 

WESTERN WHITE FLYER "AUTO ANGLE" TRAP

Now this was a machine, and those pullers were on top of their game also.

This particular trap was the one I began setting targets on back in 1961 when I was a kid, at the Canandaigua Sportsmen's Club in NY.

A rescued piece of history.