[SHOT 2025] Caldwell Claycopter: Re-Thinking Shotgun Fun

By Zac K

Everything you need for clay shooting in 2025, minus the shotgun and ammo.

For generations, clay shooting has worked around the same basic technology, whether you’re involved at the highest level of Olympic competition or just goofing off in your backyard. A heavy machine on the ground (or a handheld thrower) heaves clay targets up in the air, usually on predictable flight patterns, and a shotgunner tries to blast them. In 2025, Caldwell is taking a new approach. The new Caldwell Claycopter is one of the most innovative products on the fudd side of SHOT Show this year, as it could completely change informal clay shooting, and offers interesting new potential for competition shooting as well.Clay shooting @ TFB: Olympic Skeet Shooter Vincent Hancock Completes ISSF Hat-trick in Malta Competition Ultimate Practice Shooting System: Shooting Inside Remington’s New Sporting Clays Course and Inaugural Spring League UK Government Proposes a Flat-Out Ban on Lead Shot in AmmunitionA handheld solutionHandheld clay throwers have been around for a while, using muscle power to send standard clays up into the air. The Claycopter system

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