In my area they are 90 count boxes of biodegradable. The ones at our club has 135 per case

 

Racist??? :18:

 

I live only miles away from where they are made and know people who work there. Special boxes (90) made for Dick's and Walmart only.

 

Scardog7

I run a small group of trap-shooters, 20 to 25 shooters one day per week.

I go through 60+ cases of the 90's per month.

At a Wallyworld cost of $5.94 per case, or less than $.07 per clay it is hard to beat.
A couple of local Wmart's, (20 mile radius), order them in for me so I always have a supply, I try to stay two weeks ahead of my needs.

I cannot order a pallet of 135's delivered and beat that price, would love to, the lime green targets pop against NC pine trees, not avail in the 90's.

Storage is also an issue, do not ask how "Wifey" feels about 40 to 60 cases of clays always in the garage.

Now to answer the question of how they sell them so cheap...In speaking with the Wmart managers they are a loss leader...
get customer in, buy a case of clays, buy shells, cleaning supplies, thrower, etc..

Some NC Wmart's still sell firearms. As Forest Gump would say "magin that".

Breakability ? 16 yard centered hits 7/8 at 1150 #8 is just fine, Caps, second clay in doubles and fringe hits 7&1/2 @1200+ definitely.

Bill

 

Bill,

That answers it well. Thank you for sharing.

 

The Bio birds are harder, therefore the bird breaks are not puff balls, use bigger shot.

 

I would contact WF and ask, but the rumor has always been the targets you get from big box stores are made harder to survive rough handling in transit, and because they figure almost all of them are thrown off trius and hand traps so a little harder target won't really matter, however if this is the case it would not be an asset when you are shooting for score.

 

Bio's are hard. Period.
You can smoke them and you'll get a white cloud.
We've nicknamed one of our guys "marshmellow" for smoking bio's regularly.
Last I heard, White Flyer's introducing a "Eco" target to mimic pitch targets in order to increase break-ability.

 

You do know that biodegradable targets come with their own set issues.
Extreme soil acidity from biodegradable trap and skeet targets increases severity of pollution at shooting ranges. - PubMed - NCBI

 

You do know that biodegradable targets come with their own set issues.
Extreme soil acidity from biodegradable trap and skeet targets increases severity of pollution at shooting ranges. - PubMed - NCBI

True...there's an old thread somewhere around here that shows the long term effects from an aerial view...

 

Biodegrades are not only hard on soil but a local club has stopped using them because they were also causing problems with their traps .this was according to one of the range workers.

 

Not to step on Phil Murray (White Flyer Sales Manager), but when I ran the Remington Clay Target business, we put the same target in a 135 and a 90 pack (retail stores). I would guess that WF does the same.

Scott Hanes