My home setup doesn't include a proper trap house; I have a wooden T laid into the ground with three pins on it for locating the trap, and a barricade made of 2x6's to conceal the trap. So, the throwing arm is probably about 20" higher than it ought to be. I do have the angle and spring tension set to meet ATA height and distance specs, but overall trajectory is a bit flatter than it would be ...
I'm building a trap house for personal ranch use and looking for some plans or ideas so I don't reinvent the wheel. I noticed Troutbum60 had what he thought was a good roof design back in 2019 but didn't see any related pics - if anyone has them can you email me these same pictures of Trap...
We have a trap field that we want to make a combo with a skeet field. I need the cost for building the skeet houses, concrete work for the 8 stations, electrical work for the traps, etc. I can get the price for the trap machines from the vendor but would appreciate getting the rest of the information to present to our BOD for approval.
The distance of 16 yards from post three to point B is a measurement of the proper distance of the trap house from the shooting positions, it is not the distance from the position of the trap machine from the shooting posts. The trap machine is best located in the house as far forward as possible.
In 2016 I built a combination trap and skeet field for our club, with fully poured walkways the trap field going back to 27 yards. We installed a new sliding roof steel trap house with drainage. We did not need to replace excisting skeet houses or the traps in all 3 houses. [We have since installed a new wobble/ double's Pat Trap in the steel ...