[rick_reno]

Anyone use these? Are they durable? Are they generally available? How long till they decompose?
I'm interested in shooting some clay pigeons on my property, but don't want the mess. The non-biodegradable ones seem to have a half-life of longer than I'm likely to be around and I'd rather not leave a mess for someone else to clean up.

[Dave McCracken]

Exposed to sunlight and rain, they should be gone in two years. For the older style, more like 5-10, IIRC.

[ACP230]

Tom Knapp was using and promoting White Flyer biodegradables during his shooting show last weekend.

Check my post below for a show review.

[kudu]

Our club used the bio degradable target for two years, they do break down but no grass will grow where they lay and it leaves a pasty looking mess in the fields. We have since gone back to regular targets and do a simple clean up of the bigger piles once a year. If you just shoot occasionaly it shouldn't matter either way, they both will break down in time.

[Smoke]

I shoot the standard Remington Clay targets.

Cows passing by, pickups driving around, other factors such as sun, rain, time, has left me with little mess. Gone rather quickly. I barely notice it, but this is just me and sometimes a few others shooting. Large commercial ranges would likely have more problems.

Grass still grows. Mess don't show.

[5ptdeerhunter]

When My friends and I go shooting we usually shoot 100 or so clays. And everytime we go back to the same spot most of the clays are not to be seen. Whether they go away or are just covered by plants, they are not an eye sore.

[SkunkApe]

My clay targets say "do not throw where hogs feed" on the box.

Somehow, this always makes me chuckle. I get a mental picture of bonking pigs in the head with clay targets while they're eating their slop.

I assume the real reason is that hogs would eat them, and they are somehow poisonous to them. But why wouldn't they be dangerous to other livestock? Maybe the hogs would use them for plates or something. Or maybe they would use them to fashion some sort of escape apparatus?

And can I throw them were hogs don't feed, but just walk around?

I'm puzzled.

[Dave McCracken]

I wouldn't, Skunkape. Hogs eat wherever hogs are, it's in the job description.

IIRC, the bitumen in clays causes liver or kidney shutdown. We shouldn't eat clay targets either.