NC756
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- Feb 15, 2021
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The main reason I elected to purchase the trail 125 was to use it as a sporting clays range vehicle. if you are not familiar with sporting clays, it has often been called "golf with a shotgun". Basically, you move through a course of stations (typically 12-15 stations) in which different pairs of clay targets are thrown which you attempt to break using a shotgun. I typically will walk the course, but some courses are a little spread out. Golf carts, ATV / UTV's are frequently used to get from station to station. I really don't have a place to store a cart / UTV and trailer. Some of the vehicles you see on the course are more expensive than my truck! The trail 125 seemed like a practical, not to mention, fun solution!
Several of my shooting buddies that do have carts have mounted scabbards to their carts to make it easy and safe to secure the shotgun. It turns out that all of them use a scabbard provided by Scabbard Technologies in SC. Here is their website:
https://www.scabbard.com/
I called the fine folks there and spoke to them about the trail 125 and what I wanted to accomplish. It turns out, they have a standard mounting bracket design for ATV racks. They thought this might work right out of the box without modifications. I purchased the scabbard and bracket. They were right - the mount works just fine. Basically it is a two piece clamp. The top portion has through holes and sits on top of the rack. The bottom piece is threaded to accept the provided bolts. Here is a picture of the clamp installation:
if you look really carefully, you might be able to tell that I also added some self adhesive felt strips to both parts of the clamp where they contact the trail 125's rack. I have also installed the same material on the bottom of my crate to provide a smooth surface where it contacts the rack. I picked it up off of amazon (link below):
self adhesive felt
The scabbard is simply bolted in place to the mount with the provided hardware. I transport the trail 125 to the various ranges I shoot at in the back of my Honda Ridgeline. I leave the scabbard off until I unload the bike just to reduce the buffeting it might take tooling down the highway at 70MPH.
here is the final picture showing the scabbard mounted and my favorite 12 gauge target gun ready to go. the crate is also opened up ready for ammo, snacks, etc.
So, if you like to hunt or shoot clays, this might just be the ticket!
Several of my shooting buddies that do have carts have mounted scabbards to their carts to make it easy and safe to secure the shotgun. It turns out that all of them use a scabbard provided by Scabbard Technologies in SC. Here is their website:
https://www.scabbard.com/
I called the fine folks there and spoke to them about the trail 125 and what I wanted to accomplish. It turns out, they have a standard mounting bracket design for ATV racks. They thought this might work right out of the box without modifications. I purchased the scabbard and bracket. They were right - the mount works just fine. Basically it is a two piece clamp. The top portion has through holes and sits on top of the rack. The bottom piece is threaded to accept the provided bolts. Here is a picture of the clamp installation:
if you look really carefully, you might be able to tell that I also added some self adhesive felt strips to both parts of the clamp where they contact the trail 125's rack. I have also installed the same material on the bottom of my crate to provide a smooth surface where it contacts the rack. I picked it up off of amazon (link below):
self adhesive felt
The scabbard is simply bolted in place to the mount with the provided hardware. I transport the trail 125 to the various ranges I shoot at in the back of my Honda Ridgeline. I leave the scabbard off until I unload the bike just to reduce the buffeting it might take tooling down the highway at 70MPH.
here is the final picture showing the scabbard mounted and my favorite 12 gauge target gun ready to go. the crate is also opened up ready for ammo, snacks, etc.
So, if you like to hunt or shoot clays, this might just be the ticket!