Let's see one = 1. Maybe one broken target = 1, total of 127 to figure the price on. Lots of clubs figure 10% breakage due to a crappy trap machine or the kid loading the trap breaking some. In an ideal situation, and we have one once and a while, you can get buy with the 127 figure. I have had 12,000 thrown target days with maybe 5 broken ones out of the house. Then there have been days......
We take our WHOLE clubs costs of doing business and divide by # of targets thrown that year. As stated above it will be different club to club. ie, one club uses trap help or has high maintenence equipment, lots of propane used or a/c in club house. All these things drive cost per target.
We are a multidiscipline club, and our main two revenue producers for the club are the annual club dues (800 members @ $96 a year) and our semi-annual gun shows. (Table rentals and admission fees) This pays for general club expenses. Each discipline also earns it's own income. Shotgun makes money by throwing targets. Targets cost us about $.10 a target, and we charge about $.20 a target when we throw them. We are about due to replace one of our PAT traps, for about $8000. That's a lot of targets. Mark
At our club, we base the cost on 125 targets per case, and assume 10 bird loss (broken, trap setting). We cover our known yearly expenses with our membership fees. Profit on rounds is currently going to a fund to replace our traps (WW from before 1975).
we have a club of about 60 members. we have an annual dues that cover operational costs
our target price is low and based on a 10% breakage the profit margin on the targets thrown for club member use is 3.50 per 100.. The business model here is not to punish the high volume shooters to pay for all operational costs because they shoot the most targets. The goal is to shoot targets and therefore we hold that cost as low as possible with a small profit margin to encourage more shooting. All members enjoy the club facilities and should pay their share and not have the high volume guys pay it for them.
Much like slewcity, we don't try to make much, if anything, on our targets thrown. Our fee per round is the lowest in the area at $2/25. Not an officer of our club, but think our membership is well north of 500, maybe more. Self regulated and self run, having no paid loaders, throwers, or scorers. Only change we had to make in the last few years was to increase the $2/25 fee on our 5-stand. With all those special clays, we were losing almost $2/round on 5-stand, son increased it to $4/25.
RE: Our fee per round is the lowest in the area at $2/25
So, do you break even or throwing targets at a loss after figuring a lost target or two per case, machine parts, electricity usage per machine, and voice release repairs?
Target pricing = cost of targets and labor with another 30% for indirect expense to give us 10-15% profit for members rates, with 2 tier rates for non-members...
Sorry for delayed reply, had to run to farm for a few days, and I don't have an "I" anything nor innerweb at the farm. We have nothing to cover but the target cost, no labor as spitter mentions, only the targets. I think I heard someone say we get them right around $10/135 ct box. Yeah, we have some breaks, I've even seen some real bozos break a whole sleeve trying to load the carousel. With way north of 500 at this smallish club paying $75/year annual dues, they all have part ownership in all equipment, we only try to cover costs of targets. We made money last year doing it this way, and plan on building a new clubhouse soon. We don't try to make a profit on our targets, perhaps lose a little, but we go through a trainload in a hurry, so if volume counts, we have it. Same fee for guests as members, but guests have to be accompanied by a member.
I don't make the rules, but things seem to be working at this fee structure.
A club just to the south of us charges $7.50 non member and I think $5/member for a round of trap/skeet, but are only open a few days during the week, and close relatively early on the weekend days.
We sell them for .12 ( $3.00 a round ) a bird. Membership is $125 a year, very reasonable. I have not managed the target account for some time so do not know what we are paying for targets. We shoot White Flyers. When I was managing the account we were buying for .05 and selling for .10 a bird. Club according to the financial statements is doing well.
I don't do the purchasing, just heard someone say we paid $10/box, but I do know we shoot the bio-degradable kind, could it be they are a bit cheaper. If a box is $10, then it's a bit less than 8 cents a bird, so if we break less, it's a plus, if we break more, it's not a deal breaker. We're talking about pennies here, not dollars. I just know it's worked for us for a long time pricing them that way, the only change we've had to make is to the birds used on 5-stand, being the pricier clays to start with. For all I know, they might have built in a little fudge factor to subsidize the $2/round skeet and trap guys. No one is complaining.
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