What are the pros and cons of them, are they just something to play with or are they treated seriously?
Cons: space to store & means to transport to place of shooting, weighs 110KG & then there's the battery (+spare).
Needs relatively windless day, as foam discs are quite light.
Laporte's UK dealer/rep would not honour the remainder of the warranty period
& tried to flog us a nearly full-price re-conditioned one.
Ours has needed some minor engineering work (which could be why it was sold) but we identified the prob. & how to fix & did.
Pros: good fun.
Can adjust trajectory from anywhere between horizontal & vertical
Can adjust force with which disc launched.
In theory could be used indoors e.g. horizontal'ish in front of safety/backdrop net.
In theory & for maximum life of discs & safety should use relatively low powered bows & flu-flus.
Ours cost ?1500 2nd hand & came with 4 bows (Ragim Snake bows, 2x 22# & 2x 26#) & 100+ (Beman carbon) flu-flu's
all rebadged/labelled as "Laporte".
Personally as an "instinctive" archer, i like the challenge of moving targets, so for me at the price we paid it's brilliant,
but we don't get it out often enough!