| A skeet thrower is an essential piece of equipment | | | | target, the shooter yells "pull" and the person |
| for the game created by Charles E. Davies back in | | | | operating the manual skeet thrower launches the clay |
| the early 20th century called skeet shooting. | | | | pigeon into the air. |
| Shooters need a way to improve their reaction time, | | | | An automatic skeet thrower operates on the same |
| their aim and their ability to quickly and accurately hit | | | | principles as the manual version, but is usually much |
| a small moving target and a skeet thrower enables | | | | more expensive than its manually operated |
| them to do just that. The word skeet comes from | | | | counterpart. One advantage to an automatic skeet |
| the Scandinavian term meaning to shoot. | | | | thrower is that it can be fitted with a foot pedal so |
| A skeet launcher is a device that is either operated | | | | that the shooter can automatically cause the clay |
| manually or automatically to throw a small round disk | | | | pigeon to be launched into the air as target practice. |
| called a skeet or a clay pigeon high into the air to | | | | An automatic skeet clay thrower also has the option |
| serve as the target for the shooter. Even through | | | | of throwing the clay pigeon to roll along the ground |
| skeet resemble a dinner plate or frisbee, it would not | | | | to simulate game rather than birds. |
| be possible for an individual to throw them with | | | | The advantage of using an automatic skeet target |
| enough force high enough into the air as target | | | | thrower is that there is less waiting time required |
| practice for the shooter, so therefore a skeet | | | | between the skeet being launched either into the air |
| thrower must be employed. | | | | or along the ground. A portable automatic skeet |
| The manual skeet target thrower, also called a | | | | thrower can be stacked to hold as many as 50 skeet |
| manual trap, features a spring loaded throwing arm. | | | | at one time and these can be launched in rapid |
| Once a single skeet is loaded into the arm, it can be | | | | succession, either by another individual operating the |
| launched into the air at a variety of angles and | | | | skeet clay thrower or by the shooter himself using a |
| heights. Once the shooter is ready to aim for the | | | | foot pedal to control the speed of skeet launches. |