Is this a known thing for simulating clay target flight?

[rpenmanparker]

Although it would be gratifying to know I had just invented this idea, I would much rather be able to go down to Academy and just buy one for $100 or so. I’m thinking of a device for training the acquisition and following of shotgun targets right in the home. A small computer image projector that would put a full color picture of a clay bird target on a large wall and move it in a realistic way. Size of the image would correspond to simulated distance fore and aft and side to side as would speed of the image across the wall. Angles of the image effacement could all be realistic, There could be an audible “pull” command function. Software would control the path and be selectable with regard to the type of activity being simulated, trap, skeet, sporting clays, etc. The image could even flash bright at the ideal point for the shot to have been made and then continue its flight path. This could be combined with a laser bore sight to show how well the gun is tracking the bird. Just a laptop computer program really in combination with a projector. Does this exist?

 

[Ironhand54]

Used to be a arcade game called Duck Hunt that much like this. Worked pretty good I would love to see that in a PC trainer.

IronHand

 

[entropy]

https://www.trapshooters.com/threads/jordan-wall-chart.235858/

Best off season training device, no fancy electronics needed, just a wall and 13 ft.

 

[Jenrick]

I've never seen one, but you could actually do that with a 8mm camera and a projector back in the day (minus the laser pointer). I'm actually contemplating building something purely mechanical now just for fun. All you'd have to do is dial in the distance from the wall at the speed of the "clay" would adjust itself to match give the right angular momentum. It would just take simple cam. Hmm, probably a good winter project.

 

[rpenmanparker]

Well, I guess this is it:
https://dryfire.com/projection

 

[Ironhand54]

Well, I guess this is it:
https://dryfire.com/projection

Nice but expensive. Seams like it could be done for less

IronHand

 

[PWC]

When I was coaching Jr.s for 4H, part of their 'kit' included a maglight for the Jr. and the father/mother sponsor. The mag light would drop down the muzzle of a 12ga or 20ga and stay put. I asked the parent make sure the gun was empty and to focus the lights to as close a point as possible and in a semi darkend room to play the light on a wall in a simulated curve, and for the Jr. to track it with the mounted gun to catch or swing thru the lighted 'bird'. 10-15 min at most; guns get heavy for smaller Jrs.

Didn't take the parents long to watch live trap birds to understand the kind of target I was looking for. Of course, this only worked for the Jrs that had theuir own guns. It helped some Jrs, others it didn't. Don't know how assiduously the parents followed thru.

I used to enjoy the arcade game too, only time I 'shot' an over-under, and a round was only 25 cents.

 

[Gottcha]

Used to be a arcade game called Duck Hunt that much like this. Worked pretty good I would love to see that in a PC trainer.

IronHand

Ha! Was just going to say that!