Title: Reusable target pigeon for autoloading launcher

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Abstract: A target pigeon for use in an autoloading target-pigeon launcher has a generally flat and circular ring centered on a ring axis and having a continuous and uninterrupted circular inner periphery defining a circular open space, a substantially circular outer periphery, and a pair of opposite axial faces. Two diametrically opposite formations are provided on one of the face of the ring and are each formed with a radially inwardly open notch spaced from the inner periphery. Furthermore an axially projecting circular and continuous ridge is formed on the one face of the ring spaced between and from the inner periphery and the formations and formed away from the one face with the chamfer and at the formations with radially outwardly open cutouts. A pair of diametrically opposite vanes is provided on the rings at the holding formations, tipped propeller-fashion relative to each other. A witness cap has a substantially cylindrical rim centered on a cap axis and having one axial end engageable with the one axial face of the ring between the formations thereof and the ridge and formed with a substantially continuous outwardly projecting bead receivable in the notches of these formations. This cap also has an endplate perpendicular to the cap axis and extending across the other axial end of the rim. The cap and the ring are formed of an elastically deformable high-impact synthetic resin.


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