Practice with clay
Clay pigeons are a great tool to help you with your shooting, and they can be purchased at any local retail sports store. They are fairly cheap, ranging from
10$ - 20$ for a 30 pack. You will also need a launcher. A manual launcher can be purchased at Wal-Mart for 15$. This requires a friend to launch the clays with his arm. Another method is to buy a pull string launcher. These are a little more expensive but make it easier to shoot if you are by yourself. They vary in price ranging from 50$ - 200$. Last but not least, the beast of launchers, the electric one. These are easy loading, easy firing launchers. The only downside is the price. They tend to be in the couple of hundred to a thousand dollar range. If you don't feel like paying for one, why don't you make one yourself. It's very easy. Just take a piece of plywood 2x2 feet in area, another piece of wood like a 2x4, and make it so the 2x4 swivels along the plywood. Now get a large industrial elastic for 3 bucks
and tie it so that when you pull the 2x4 down the elastic stretches. Now drill a hole where the maximum stretch is and in that hole place a bolt or anything to stop the 2x4 from firing. Tie a string to the bolt and now you have a pull string clay pigeon launcher for under 10$. Note if yours doesn't fire the clay pigeon far enough, you can just make it larger and use a more powerful elastic.
10$ - 20$ for a 30 pack. You will also need a launcher. A manual launcher can be purchased at Wal-Mart for 15$. This requires a friend to launch the clays with his arm. Another method is to buy a pull string launcher. These are a little more expensive but make it easier to shoot if you are by yourself. They vary in price ranging from 50$ - 200$. Last but not least, the beast of launchers, the electric one. These are easy loading, easy firing launchers. The only downside is the price. They tend to be in the couple of hundred to a thousand dollar range. If you don't feel like paying for one, why don't you make one yourself. It's very easy. Just take a piece of plywood 2x2 feet in area, another piece of wood like a 2x4, and make it so the 2x4 swivels along the plywood. Now get a large industrial elastic for 3 bucks
and tie it so that when you pull the 2x4 down the elastic stretches. Now drill a hole where the maximum stretch is and in that hole place a bolt or anything to stop the 2x4 from firing. Tie a string to the bolt and now you have a pull string clay pigeon launcher for under 10$. Note if yours doesn't fire the clay pigeon far enough, you can just make it larger and use a more powerful elastic.
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