Homemade Sporting Clays Cart

[Patrick L]

This is not about Smith & Wessons, or even handguns, but we are all a resourceful bunch and I think we all enjoy seeing each other's clever money saving projects.

I started shooting sporting clays about 10-12 years ago, after a lifetime of skeet and bird hunting. While I liked the neat sporting clays carts some guys had, I was never going to pay $300-$400 for one. That's a lot of shells or components!

But then this appeared in someone's garbage. It's a jogging stroller.

I removed a lot of the extraneous stuff like the canopy and the safety straps, most of which were just tied up out of the way. It wouldn't release to fold, so I flooded the mechanism with G96 to free it up. Now it folds! I cleaned up a lot of rust. The hand brake was completely out of adjustment, but that was easy to fix. I spent about $20 for some ATV gun mounts, and ended up with this

Man that looks like a sporting clays cart!

The exposed muzzles made me uneasy

So I got two 2" rubber Fernco caps. I removed the clamps, and used black zip ties to secure them to the bottom gun mounts

About the only thing I'm still trying to do is salvage the cupholder tray that that went up by and between the handles. Right now I can put it on, but the guns lie right over where a drink would go. And while a cold drink or water bottle would be nice, more importantly there is a neat storage compartment that would be perfect for choke tubes etc. and that's the main reason I want to try to salvage that. I'll keep working on it.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Frank Zappa would approve.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

My gun cart for Cowboy Action Shooting was built from a Golf Bag Cart. Mine held 2 rifles, 2 shotguns and a bag full of handguns and ammo! I always had two "pipes", One to hold a flag pole and one to hold an Sun Umbrella! Cup holders of some type are a must too!

When we shoot Sporting Clays, we usually have a golf cart, with spare ammo and a cooler! Often one or two extra guns!, One club is only a 50 bird course so about 4 boxes of 410 in a small carrier and of you go walking. You never know how many people want to shoot you 410! The most addictive gun in Sporting Clays!

Ivan

 

[AJ]

Good idea, tried one of those once. I found that that the lack of a front wheel that was able to turn left or right was a hindrance. I generally take about 100 pounds of stuff to the range. I ended up using a sand cart with a steel basket 14" X 24". In that I carry two hard rifle cases, leather rear sand bag, a front adjustable rifle rest, a aluminum spotting scope case, tool box and a canvas ammo bag.