Remington “Blue Rocks”

[Kevin McCormack]

What is a "Pat Trap" and where does that name come from?

[Bill Murphy]

Stuart PATenaude, the proprietor of the company.

[Pa SxS]

Loved shooting Remington targets back in the day. When you centered them, nothing but black smoke! Then something changed around the year 2000. Don't know if there was a target shortage or what but we shot Remington targets at the Grand and they must have not been cured properly. If you didn't center the target, you could see it move but no pieces came off. Many targets were picked up with multiple holes in it but not broken. That was the end of shooting Remington targets.

[J. Scott Hanes]

Originally Posted by Kevin McCormack

What is a "Pat Trap" and where does that name come from?

Kevin,
As Bill Murphy noted, it was a clay target throwing machine specifically made for Trap shooting. It holds 400+ targets in a turret, throws either doubles or single targets at random angles with minimal changeover. Most importantly, it allowed the removal of a target setter from the trap house. The old Winchester hand-set machines had seen many "stung" fingers and numerous injuries to the setters and it was just a matter of time before there would be an OSHA-type mandate disallowing a young person being subject to such 'danger'.
I would venture a guess that at least 90% of the current Trap-shooting clubs use the PAT trap today.

[Bruce Hering]

Originally Posted by Kevin McCormack

What is a "Pat Trap" and where does that name come from?

Unless I am way off here (I dont think so) Pat traps are now hydraulically activated from an electric switch. What this means is the arm is cocked and the machine rotated via electrically triggered hydraulic pumps.

Quite different then all electric traps....