Thowlining paraphernalia recommendations

[markieg31]

The price of some of this stuff is unjustifiable. 

[kram]

If your telling me the choice is to buy ten 30 quid folding bags, two £130 quid bags or a £300 crossbow, I'd take the crossbow, would save a lot of time from missed throws!

 

Ok what do we think about this,

 

https://www.dogandfield.co.uk/gundog-training-equipment/dummy-launchers/rrt-dummy-launcher/

 

https://www.dogandfield.co.uk/gundog-training-equipment/dummy-launchers/dummy-launcher-dummies/pvc-launcher-dummy/

 

.22 Cal Dummy Launcher Blanks

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.22 Cal Dummy Launcher Blanks: Available in three power ratings (Green, Yellow and Red) delivered across UK by Dog and Field: #1 in Gun Dog supplies.

 

 

[Mark Bolam]

🤦‍♂️

[markieg31]

Think I'll stick to my big shot, if that can't reach the tree doesn't need climbing, just felling.

[MattyF]

2 hours ago, kram said:

If your telling me the choice is to buy ten 30 quid folding bags, two £130 quid bags or a £300 crossbow, I'd take the crossbow, would save a lot of time from missed throws!

 

Ok what do we think about this,

 

https://www.dogandfield.co.uk/gundog-training-equipment/dummy-launchers/rrt-dummy-launcher/

 

https://www.dogandfield.co.uk/gundog-training-equipment/dummy-launchers/dummy-launcher-dummies/pvc-launcher-dummy/

 

.22 Cal Dummy Launcher Blanks

WWW.DOGANDFIELD.CO.UK

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.22 Cal Dummy Launcher Blanks: Available in three power ratings (Green, Yellow and Red) delivered across UK by Dog and Field: #1 in Gun Dog supplies.

 

 

They are wank krammykins, **************** off for miles and don’t come back as I imagine a cross bow bolt will too , I added around 16oz of lead to a blank dummy so I could actually get it down but it’s pretty pointless when you can polish up your throw line skills and hand throw and isolate an anchor at 70ft. 
here’s mine in action. 

Matthew Fathers (@matty_arb) • Instagram video

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54 likes, 6 comments - matty_arb on June 16, 2015: "Beech monolith work from this morning.".

 

[AHPP]

12 minutes ago, MattyF said:

They are wank krammykins, **************** off for miles and don’t come back as I imagine a cross bow bolt will too , I added around 16oz of lead to a blank dummy so I could actually get it down but it’s pretty pointless when you can polish up your throw line skills and hand throw and isolate an anchor at 70ft. 
here’s mine in action. 

Matthew Fathers (@matty_arb) • Instagram video

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54 likes, 6 comments - matty_arb on June 16, 2015: "Beech monolith work from this morning.".

 

 

How loud are they? Compared to a 22 rimfire shooting subs, silenced and not. I’ve been fancying one for ages.
 

What I really want is a little mortar, ideally smaller than a 51mm. Maybe 40mm to share ammo with a grenade launcher. With a stand and lovely little screws for adjusting. But alas, I live in an uncivilised country that forbids them unless you kill arabs with them and I don’t especially want to kill any arabs.

[MattyF]

They are loud , I had to have permission and notices in the natural trust car park that was on that job warning people what the noise was.. 

will make your ears ring anyway. Basically it’s a dog dummy trainer , you just need to modify the dummy with some weight other wise they ricochet all around the tree and you have zero chance of getting the line back on the ground. 

[AHPP]

That’s a shame. I’m so spoiled by shooting silenced subsonics. Can’t stand noise. 

[openspaceman]

42 minutes ago, MattyF said:

Basically it’s a dog dummy trainer

I think I still have my FiL's empty coke can launcher which is probably much the same.

[kram]

55 minutes ago, MattyF said:

but it’s pretty pointless when you can polish up your throw line skills and hand throw and isolate an anchor at 70ft. 

My aim is great, power great, timing shite, and you need all three for throw bags. I could likely get better if I spent days practising and was using it often, but once a month with an often difficult throw, no chance.

 

I'm thinking I will make up a big shot or air cannon instead.