[glocklover]

I would like to shoot the bianchi cup next year, but I have never shot a running man moving target. I was thinking about building one. Any suggestions on how to build one?

Craig

[gm iprod]

Glocklover

PM oe email me and I will send all the info we have on the best ways to construct your own mover.

[NRAActionPistol]

gm iprod, on Oct 3 2009, 05:26 AM, said:

Glocklover

PM oe email me and I will send all the info we have on the best ways to construct your own mover.

Richard,

Thank you,

This is "team work"

Tom...

[gm iprod]

Tom,

We try

We are trying to make it so that we can build rail movers and have them so than anyone can get them cheaply. If the receiver can get the material we list and a power source we think we can get them up and running in under two weeks. Motors at the correct RPM available everywhere are an issue.

I have an idea for a portable rail mover. But I have been told that I might be getting a little ahead of myself, which I reckon is bollocks, but the same guy told me I was pig headed.

[kimmbeckwith]

I guess I am having a little trouble understanding the mover thing. They are not that hard to build and not that expensive. Five wire cord, 1/2 horse motor, pullie ( I had to do the trial and error thing with these) Small braded cable for the runner and looped on the bottom for Kansas wind, use pullies on garage door cables, use those also for the other side of the pull string. Use string line (elastic). Was up and running in under two weeks doing it all in the evenings.

Total cost around $400.00

Kim

[jmorris]

I built a portable mover using an old cordless drill. It mounts on 2X4’ using ratchet straps to brace the cable tension of the boat type cable winch. It can be set up starting from either direction or you can make it run down and back to the starting point. I have both manual and infrared activators for it. The drill motor has two speeds and I machined two different diameters in the drive pulley so you can make it as easy or challenging as you want. I power it with a 7.5 amp hour deer feeder batt and it will run around 740 cycles before it starts to slow. I didn't spend over $40 on the whole thing but you have to have a lot of what my wife calls "junk" to use for parts or it could get expensive quick.

Here is a video of it running slow.
http://s121.photobuc....nt=runner1.flv
http://s121.photobuc....nt=runner2.flv

[jmorris]

http://www.actiontar..._mt_runner.html

Is a link the runner that got the idea in my head but I thought the price was insane. A few weeks later a friend was telling me a story about how his cordless drill was worthless as new batteries cost too much. I think a lot of the cost is the remote control in the action target runner above. I just added a few extra switches at the drill motor to control where I wanted the target to start and end.

This post has been edited by jmorris: 05 October 2009 - 08:02 AM

[peacekeeper]

We have one or those action target movers at our club. it works ok. I would not buy it again.

it is a pain to set up.