SIMULATED GAME
Different Targets, Different Layouts, Different Challenges.
Yeah, that’s not a problem for Acorn users.
Versatility?
Sorted.
Reliability?
Absolutely.
Adaptability?
Built in.
From large clay setups, our simulated game trailers have you covered. Lacking the topography? That’s easily solved — our Double Duplex systems can be lifted into the sky with ease.
Have an idea? We’d love to hear. At Acorn, we design bespoke systems, built by engineers who know how to turn a shooting concept into a working reality.
With every Acorn product, you can expect consistent performance — and hours of properly good shooting.
Simulated Game Triple Trailer
- Configuration: Three-trap trailer system
- Target type: Paired and driven simulated game
- Deployment: Mobile or semi-permanent use
Acorn Quad Train
- Configuration: Multiple independent trailer-mounted traps
- Target type: Simulated game flushes and spread targets
- Installation: Mobile use across large areas
Acorn Duplex
- Configuration: Two AutoClay traps on a single elevated frame
- Target type: High driven and crossing simulated game
- Installation: Fixed or semi-permanent use
The Gatling
- Configuration: Twin AutoSport 90 traps on a single trailer
- Target type: Simulated game pairs, driven birds and sporting targets
- Application: Complete manual control with endless target variety
Simulated Game Shooting Explained
What is Simulated Game Shooting?
Simulated game shooting uses clay targets to recreate the variety, pace and challenge of traditional game shooting. By carefully positioning traps and designing target presentations, it is possible to produce realistic driven, crossing, flushing and high bird targets that test timing, technique and target reading.
Simulated game has become increasingly popular for training, recreation and corporate shooting days, as well as providing an enjoyable way to stay sharp during the closed season.
Why is Simulated Game So Popular?
One of the biggest attractions of simulated game shooting is that no two layouts need to be the same. Different terrain, trap positions and target combinations can create an almost endless variety of presentations.
Whether you prefer high driven birds over a valley, fast crossing targets through woodland rides or large flushes arriving from multiple directions, simulated game allows the experience to be tailored to the ground and the people shooting it.
Unlike traditional game shooting, where birds arrive when they arrive, simulated game gives you a constant supply of targets throughout the day. There is always another target to shoot at, allowing more opportunities to practise, refine technique and enjoy uninterrupted shooting.
For many people, this combination of realism, variety and target availability makes simulated game one of the most enjoyable forms of clay shooting.
How Do You Choose the Right Simulated Game System?
The best simulated game systems are designed around the targets you want to create rather than the machinery itself.
Important factors include:
- The size and shape of the shooting ground
- The number of guns shooting at any one time
- The type of targets you want to produce
- Whether the system needs to be mobile or fixed
- How much flexibility you want in the future
Some grounds benefit from compact trailer-based systems, while others require traps spread across a large area to create realistic drives and varied target presentations.
What Makes a Good Simulated Game Setup?
A good simulated game setup should provide realistic target presentations while remaining reliable, practical and easy to operate.
Key qualities include:
- Consistent target performance
- Adjustable target angles and trajectories
- Reliable radio control systems
- Easy transportation and deployment
- The ability to create varied target presentations
- Robust construction for long-term outdoor use
The best systems allow layouts to evolve over time, keeping shooting days fresh and challenging.
Simulating Different Types of Game
Driven Birds
High driven targets remain one of the most popular simulated game presentations. By combining height, distance and timing, these targets reward good technique and careful target selection.
The Simulated Game ATV Quad Trailer is particularly effective for creating realistic driven bird presentations. By spreading traps across the ground, targets can be introduced from different positions and heights, creating drives that feel natural, varied and challenging.
Pheasant Shooting
Driven pheasants rarely present the same target twice. Some arrive high overhead, others drift across the line, while some appear unexpectedly from behind natural cover.
The Simulated Game ATV Quad Trailer allows traps to be positioned across woodland rides, valleys and open ground, making full use of the terrain to create realistic pheasant-style target presentations.
Partridge Shooting
Partridge presentations often require fast crossing targets and varied lines that test reactions and target reading.
The Simulated Game Triple Trailer is well suited to creating coordinated paired and driven presentations from a compact setup, making it an excellent choice where flexibility and ease of deployment are important.
Grouse-Style Shooting
Grouse-style presentations rely on tightly packed targets moving together at speed. The challenge comes from maintaining focus on a dense pack that changes direction while retaining its shape.
The Double Duplex was designed specifically for this style of shooting. By synchronising multiple Duplex bases, targets move together as a coordinated pack, creating realistic grouse-style presentations that remain challenging and unpredictable.
Bespoke Target Presentations
No two grounds are the same. Woodland, valleys, banks, open fields and natural contours all present opportunities to create something unique.
Our Bespoke Systems are designed around the ground and the targets you want to create. Whether that involves high driven birds, crossing targets, flushing presentations or something entirely different, our engineering team can help turn an idea into a working simulated game system.
Why Acorn?
Every shooting ground is different.
With over 30 years of experience in clay target systems, we've worked with everyone from private individuals and syndicates through to clubs, estates and commercial shooting grounds.
That's why Acorn designs simulated game systems around your requirements rather than forcing you into a standard package. From compact trailer systems through to large-scale multi-trap layouts, our aim is always the same: realistic targets, reliable equipment and enjoyable shooting.
All Acorn products are designed and manufactured in the UK by our own engineering team, giving us complete control over quality, performance and long-term support.
Whether you need a single simulated game position or a complete shooting layout, we'll help you build a system that works for your ground today and can adapt to your requirements in the future.
30+ Years of Experience
Over three decades of desigining and building clay target systems for shooters across the UK and beyond.
Designed & Manufactured in the UK
All Acorn products are designed and manufactured in the UK by our own engineerig team.
Support You Can Rely On
From initial concept to long-term support, we're here to ensure your system performs day after day.
Built for Real Shooting
Engineered for reliabilty, built for the elements and trusted by shooters everywhere.
