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Step 6Start Your Chucking
Now you're finished. Put the lanyard on your wrist, load a cracker into the track, check for people and obstacles, and swing the chucker with a fluid motion. With about a box of crackers, you'll develop a good muscle memory, and be able to throw farther and farther. I hate to say this, but Ritz brand crackers actually fly farther than generics. I think it is because they are harder.
Now, i know the first thing I thought of was throwing washers out of the thing. Let me point out, crackers fly about 50 yds out of these things. You can easily put a steel washer through drywall.
No matter what you decide to throw out of this thing, please be careful.
Thanks for reading, and thanks again to Kiteman.
Post Script: Here's a video of it in action. The crackers are very hard to see, but if you look hard you can see a couple of them really take off. I think it's easier to infer the flight path from the speed than it is to see them. I slowed the last throw down and adjusted the contrast to make it more obvious. This footage was taken at Top of the World park, in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. It was very windy, so we were limited as to the direction of the throws, but we tried it against a few different backdrops so it could be seen. We are currently trying to come up with something dark to throw, we are thinking poker chips, but it becomes a pain having to chase them all over the place. Maybe a washer with a button cell and LED at dusk....
In the first clips, the barn is about 30 yards away. If you can see, it clears the roof almost every time, unless I had a bad throw. In most of the clips after, I was between 25 and 30 yards from the woods. At 30 yards, with a forty five degree throw, the crackers are still climbing. We recommend shooting them on the rise. After they get out 30-40 yards, the odds that a pellet will hit it become virtually nil. Even if you make a dead on shot, the pattern of the shot at 30 yards is highly spread. The plus side is that this really is great training for quail and pheasant hunts, because they explode out of the grass and generally fly out and up very fast. You get to be pretty quick on the target acquisition after a few boxes. Hope you enjoy the vid! Special thanks to Sean for his help filming and editing.
Now, i know the first thing I thought of was throwing washers out of the thing. Let me point out, crackers fly about 50 yds out of these things. You can easily put a steel washer through drywall.
No matter what you decide to throw out of this thing, please be careful.
Thanks for reading, and thanks again to Kiteman.
Post Script: Here's a video of it in action. The crackers are very hard to see, but if you look hard you can see a couple of them really take off. I think it's easier to infer the flight path from the speed than it is to see them. I slowed the last throw down and adjusted the contrast to make it more obvious. This footage was taken at Top of the World park, in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. It was very windy, so we were limited as to the direction of the throws, but we tried it against a few different backdrops so it could be seen. We are currently trying to come up with something dark to throw, we are thinking poker chips, but it becomes a pain having to chase them all over the place. Maybe a washer with a button cell and LED at dusk....
In the first clips, the barn is about 30 yards away. If you can see, it clears the roof almost every time, unless I had a bad throw. In most of the clips after, I was between 25 and 30 yards from the woods. At 30 yards, with a forty five degree throw, the crackers are still climbing. We recommend shooting them on the rise. After they get out 30-40 yards, the odds that a pellet will hit it become virtually nil. Even if you make a dead on shot, the pattern of the shot at 30 yards is highly spread. The plus side is that this really is great training for quail and pheasant hunts, because they explode out of the grass and generally fly out and up very fast. You get to be pretty quick on the target acquisition after a few boxes. Hope you enjoy the vid! Special thanks to Sean for his help filming and editing.
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Mar 27, 2010. 10:57 AMjmatthew408
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this looks fun but, can you see the crackers better in real life than in the video, cuz eventhough im from the patron state of shooting stuff (TN) i cant shoot objects which i am unable to see :-)
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Mar 29, 2010. 9:02 AMhailtothkngbby (author)
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Yeah, you can definitely see it better in real life than in the video. When we do it we stand in the middle of a cornfield and just rotate as the sun moves until you get the best sight picture. It is definitely as fun as it looks! Sometimes, we throw crackers to the geese and ducks out on our pond too!
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Jul 11, 2009. 7:03 PMyopauly
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LOL, this is cool! shoot all day for not much. A box of crackers don't weigh much. To be honest, the title made me think it was something racist! LMAO! You're saving the environment and hit or miss, the birds love you for it! KUDOS to you!
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Jul 12, 2009. 3:49 PMhailtothkngbby (author)
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Thanks! Kudos definitely goes to Kiteman for the original idea, I just made it a tad more durable. The fun-factor is definitely the same though!
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