Went together easy after watching you tube video. A few parts missing and 1 broken. Got ahold of company and had them 3 days later. Wow. Great customer service

I really like clay shooting but I had no idea what what kind of clay thrower to Purchase, after calling the army navy store and asking questions was told the best one they had tried was a do-all but had 0 in stock. I bought the raven do-all clay thrower in November 2015. Had heavy rain most of the winter, First time I used it I was amazed at how well it performed other than loosening and tightening the bolts to change the elevation angle. I then got a Volkswagen windshield wiper motor mounted it in the bottom frame then built a link up mechanism to make the thrower move the full length of travel up and down the slotted part of the thrower then added longer bolts and lock nuts so nothing would work loose now every time I push the foot pedal both the thrower motor and elevation motor runs so the clay comes out at a different elevation.

This is the best thrower I've ever purchased! Definitely recommend, especially with the remote and wobble attachment!

All around, it's a good affordable machine. No printed instructions, but an assembly DVD enclosed as well as Youtube video are clear enough.
Assembly is straight forward. I had one major and several minor issues:

1) Out of the box and after assembly, when the arm went to throw, the dome of the clay would scrape the underside of the top of the housing, jamming against the side brush holder and thereby shattering the pigeon before it even launched. And if you are trying to diagnose the issue with clays shattering on launch, it can be very frustrating because you can't get close enough to view it without putting yourself in a shower of shattered clays. Once I diagnosed the issue, I just grabbed the launch arm and bent it down slightly. It's aluminum, so don't go get all "Hulk" like and inadvertently snap it off. Just a gentle pressure to bend it down about 1/4". That opened up the clearance to the top and allowed the clays to be thrown.

2) Once I got the clays to launch however, the clays were banking to the left and going "dome on" to the shooter. By sheer luck, I adding the slightest bit of twist to the launch arm and had the clays staying level during their arc of loft and fall.

3) The Allen head screws on C shaped bracket on top of clay feed tower habitually loosen. Had to Loc-tite the threads.

4) The clay feed tower rods keep climbing the tapered stud mounts (they look like post type battery terminals) on top of the housing. The tower rods are slip on tolerance fit and vibrating loose. Haven't finalized a solution, but probably going to drill the tubes and posts and cotter pin (if you do this, make sure the cotter pin head or legs are out of the path of the clays dropping).

5) Adding the optional wobbler require the removal and non-usage of the wheels and handle. Really?? With a little cutting of the wheel bar, fabrication and welding you can add the wheels and handle back on, but compatibility with original manufacturer options should have been thought of and allowed for from, well; the original manufacturer!

Tips:

a) Get a red coated 'D' handle 5/16" tractor hitch pin to replace the safety pin (available at Tractor Supply, Lowes, Home Depot, etc). The factory one is natural metal and blends in with the rest of the bolts. Next thing you know after reloading, the safety pin is jammed in the machine because you forgot to remove it and now the throwing arm is wedged up against it. And you have to loosen the motor and gearing to get the throwing arm loosened so you can remove the pin. The big red handle will stick out like a sore thumb and if you miss that... Get glasses.

b) Order the optional wobbler from the get go. By the end of the first 50 clays you know exactly where the trajectory of the clays will be. And the challenge is gone. Now someone has to walk to the machine, put the safety pin in, adjust the machine for a different path & angle, hope you remember to pull the safety pin (see above) go back to the firing line... Yea, nope. Avoid the extra shipping charge and order the wobbler and thrower all at once.

c) When the feed stack is down to the last two clays, its stops feeding. I've read others reviews that you have to reload the tower, then flip the switch to "release", to fire the bottom clay, then switch back to "on" to get it to feed the stack automatically again. I've got a simpler way around that. I've taken to putting 3 white domes on top of the stack of 45 orange domes and then two more orange domes on top of the white. When you're banging away at and dusting oranges, and then a white dome launches, you know it's time for a reload without having to load and reset the machine.

d) Order an extra one or two foot pedals, and get a three outlet tap for the end of an extension cord or I had a green 25' three outlet "holiday lights" extension cord from WalMart. This way you don't have to move the pedal from shooter to shooter.

I gave it four stars because despite all the initial tweaking and let down about losing the wheels by adding the wobbler; once it was set up, it really does launch reliably, and its affordable.

The tower that holds the clays worked great for the first 50 or 80 clays. Then what happens is that the tower works its way loose from the 4 chrome knobs on which the tower slides over. This results in the clays becoming cocked side ways & when the push arm comes forward it actually breaks the clay.