My experiences with the Do-ALL Electric trap
$399 electric thrower from Native Outdoors
To date, 27th Jan 07, I have put over 2250 clays though the first one and 8000+ through the replacement.
I bought one of these so that I could practice the angled shots encountered in skeet without driving to and bothering others on a commercial skeet range. My plan was to buy a thrower that I could set up to operate from a footswitch. I marked out a skeet field and my local public range and, when no-one else is using it, wander round the clock repeating the same angles over and over.

I had read quite a bit about this trap on the shotgunworld forum - see 
Link to shotgunworld forum topic
This seems to be a device that has just come to the market - there were a few teething troubles reported but I was encouraged by the experiences of various posters who had received excellent after-sales from Do-All so I bought one from Native Outdoors for $399 + shipping. I looked at others but they were at least twice the price. So far, I'm very impressed with it's performance and value for money.
Link to QT video - give it 20secs to load!
Do'Alls customer service is simply outstanding
Date
Cumulative
clays thrown
Cumulative Broken clays
thrown (approx)
Problem encountered
Fix
No grease and poor mesh of gears
Jul 21 06
Adjusted mesh and applied lithium grease
Called Do-All customer support who advised adjusting the tension with the machine screw - that didn't reduce it enough so they advised cutting two coils from the spring. Did this and problem solved. Do-All sent a complete replacement clay release assy just in case  and a set of magazine rods (mine were dinged in shipping).  immediately :-)
Clays landing on the throwing plate were sustaining chips casused by too much pressure from the spring-loaded nylon plunger.
Jul 21 06 20
180
Called Do-All customer support who advised grinding or filing the shoulders off. Did this - problem fixed
Occasionaly clays would hang on the sliding plate - held by weight of stack above and little "shoulders" on the plate still protruding into the circular cutout in the top plate when in the "drop" position
Sep 5th 06
1800 60 - seem to depend heavily on the quality iof the targets - Wal-Mart White Flers perhaps get banged about a bit?

When Bio WFs from gunshop used - zero breaks..
Sept 8th 06
2250 90 - again, back to Wal Mart cheapo White Flyers
Main switch burnt out - seemed to be caused by the motor's gearbox mounting lugs bending a little, this in turn causing a poor mesh of the main gears and probable amperage overload on the main switch, one side of which melted and went inop. Called Do-All and reported the failure - asked for a new motor and switch. Do-All said they would send a complete new replacement trap incorporating the new low-voltage cut-off relay. I don't think low volts was the cause of the failure as I'm using a new, fully charge deep cycle - checked volts - drops to 12.3 minimum.
Sept 19th 06 - as promised, complete new trap arrived (Rev G with replacement relay and fitting instructions)
Ben from Do-All also called and said they would keep replacing the unit until I was completely satisfied. I'm impressed.
I swapped the old top slider plate assy from my old trap to the new as the (same Rev G) new one still had the shoulders I'd previously ground off to avoid the hanging clay problem described above. I also replaced the spade bolt with a slightly longer one so that I could reduce the main spring tension a little to ease the load on the motor mounts somewhat and to reduce the speed and length of throw to a more skeet-like trajectory. Careful to still leave minimum tension on the spring so it doesn't rattle around.
Replacement arrived today
Sept 20th
270 - (new trap so reset counter)
12 - again - seems to be down to quality of clays - ones on the bottom of the box giving trouble (Wal Mart again)
At one stage the trap just kept cycling on its own - throwing clay after clay. I simply bent the microswitch operating arm towards the motor about 1/8" which fixed that nicely. Trap then proceeded to throw faultlessly for the entire session.
Sept 21st 130 - cumulative 400 6 - cumulative 18
None - Throwing beautifully - still a huge distance and pretty fast! I hope Do-All find a slightly less powerful spring soon - I don't like to back the (slightly longer) bolt off any more.
130 - cumulative 530 10 - cumulative 28 None with the trap - another batch of Wal-Mart clays - I watched them throwing them about.. must find a better supply
Sept 25th
Sept 27th
180 - cumulative 710 Just a couple - I'm actually stopping counting the broken ones now - the trap is working fine and any broken clays I'm absolutely sure are cracked due to poor handling at Wal_Mart
Sept 29th 2006  - as the second trap has settled down to steady reliability I'm ceasing to update by the outing as there aren't any problems - (well actually the cable pulled out of the footswitch but that was easily fixed). I will just update the total clays thrown at the top of the page and return here if I encounter any further problems. Currently its throwing great - I'm a happy bunny :-)
I got fed up with the cable pulling out of the footswitch so simply wrapped it around the microswitch once before re-clamping - its stayed in for a long time now :-)
Now have the Do-All double wirless remote - this gizmo rocks. I have velcro'd the  key-fob size remote to the side of the forend of the gun and it works a treat. No more dragging the cable around the skeet circle!
Dec 3rd
Email:
Patrick.Randall@comcast.net link to my shooting page
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