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Article: China Produces Environment-Friendly Clay Pigeons
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- March 17, 2001
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Chinese researchers have developed environment-friendly clay
pigeons for the shooting sport.
They used new materials to replace traditional components in clay
pigeons used as targets in skeet shooting, to prevent fragments from
harming the environment.
The first batch of 240,000 new clay pigeons was recently sold to
Japan and the Republic of Korea.
Clay pigeons are traditionally mainly made of pitch, which can be
deleterious to people and other living creatures because the
fragments ...