Texas Side by Side Club. Houston, Tx. We just had our championship  shoot at Great Houston Gun Club here in Houston. Very nice course and all said target presentation was wonderful. We had ten prizes for the various categories. Had two ties at 84. We were able to break the ties based on  shoot at a station. We had a catered lunch with both beef and chicken fajitas as of course all the fixings. Our club has various nice side by side shooting events. We have done Able Ammo, Joshua Creek, Greater Houston. We have two upcoming shoots, one in Dallas at the Dallas Gun Club and also at Texas Premier in Sealy, Tx.  . We only really keep score at our championship shoot as that is when we have prizes.



So if you like to shoot side by side shotguns at sporting clays and want to meet like minded folks we are open for new members. Glad to personal speak to anybody who maybe interested.



John

Arrieta

713-818-2971 

Yeeeee Hawww
I love Texas shooters

Thank you for the report

Mike

Nice report John.

Hope to have a shoot in Central Florida Nov/Dec and will post it here once date is confirmed.

Yes, let us know, Hal. If I get down that way I'd like to stop by. Maybe you can give me some pointers.

Sounds like you had a great time, John.

No helice?

That would be my question. I've become addicted.

No not hélice

Greater Houston just set up one but I have yet to see anybody use


Maybe next time we can do a combo shoot

I need to check in on that

John

Already registered to shoot the upcoming SxS shoot @ DGC on the 11th. Have shot in them since their inception. Prizes will be awarded, and they are always nice. It's a Lewis Class shoot, in order to have more winners and every one of them has been good fun. This one will be 100 sporty clays targets for the main event and also a 50-target small bore event.

There is an open USHA [helice] shoot scheduled for Nov. 16~18 w/a preliminary 30 target race on Friday w/sanctioned USHA/FITASC 30 target races on Sat. & Sun. And I'm hearing rumors there may be a 28 ga race held on Friday as well but have not confirmed that. DGC has five helice rings w/two and sometimes three set up and running full time. Rings one & two have recently been totally redone w/extensive dirt work to level them, underground wiring, new sod and other significant improvements. All the rings have new fences as well.

Sound like a very nice facility. Five ZZ bird rings ............wow!

Dallas Gun club is the nicest in Texas. Greater Houston would be number 2 but we might be gaining on them

John
Arrieta

I've heard Greater Houston has become a very nice place, though I haven't been there in years. When I was young, back in the 80s of the last century, I took lessons from a guy named Grand Ilseng out there. He was old then, and slow moving and, if I recall correctly, dealing with some heart issues. Back then the club was all about skeet and trap and a pretty modest clubhouse that was more icehouse than country club. Drill pipe scattered around with weeds growing through. Live pigeon shoots on an opaque schedule (those ended in the early 80s, as Houston was getting too big city for that sort of thing in a public venue). Good memories from a long time ago. Sounds like you guys have a newer version of it going strong. I'm glad.

Running five rings for the larger shoots allows for shorter crank times and the order gets changed each day to prevent any cherry picking. There are a lot of good things happening in TX these days and if anyone has the hankering to shoot helice, there are actually several venues/places where you may do so. Please visit USHA to see the options available today to play the game; there are a number of them around the country. Try it, you may like it. The 'timing', at least to me, is different from shooting 'pigs', as my old friend, Bill Wise called them. What a perfectly wonderful person he was here and in real life as well, and as Grant Ilseng, Buck Stark, Dick Pope, Gene Sears, Cyril Adams, Bob Brister, J.O. Bates, Richard Smith, and a few others not named who are no longer with us... has left an indelible impression on some of us fortunate enough to have known and interfaced with them.

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