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It is an interesting game. I didn't find them that hard to hit, hitting them and having them fall inside the ring is the hard part. I'm slowing down, I was out the other day and shot some skeet. High house 8 is getting harder especially after a year lay off.

Drew, I missed the past two years, looks like some nice improvements.

The new set-up Oskar with 7 boxes. Mike had to cancel this year's February shoot



Control house

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Cyril Adams always said ZZ was harder than box birds. If you could shot in the mid 20's you could make money in a pigeon ring. The master should know.

Our club [DGC] has two permanent regulation FITASC helice rings set up and running all the time. For smaller USHA shoots will have three running, shot down the line w/5 targets per ring and two cranks per 30 target race w/the 2nd starting on the 3rd ring, so the race ends in ring #1, visible from that end of the clubhouse. And usually another 'practice' ring set up and also running on another part of the property. For larger Nat'l. type events we've had as many as five rings running.

You can find all the dope online by going to: https://www.ushelice.com/

It is a decidedly fun game and more difficult than box birds. The timing is also different.

Going back quite a ways, when we first started shooting the more modern helice targets on single target traps, one the best flyer shooters ever got a 'load em' on the first ring's birds in a 20 bird race [30 bird races were yet to come]... and w/o missing a beat turned to the crowd and said, "Who hooped these things, anyway?!"

It's a great game/fine sport that deserves to grow and unlike some of the other target games, it is a relaxed pace and you do not have to endure the elements for lengthy times, be they hot or cold or shoot four or more boxes in an event waiting at each station w/the permanent pavilions we have for shooters and first hand up-close observers and clubhouse proximate w/its amenities. On any given day that the club is open, we can shoot helice, barring a scheduled helice shoot taking place. If it's raining, portable pavilions are set up for the shooter over the voice pull station.

Hunters Pointe is having the NC Helice Championship in August.

They aren't that hard to hit.......just easy to miss.

I've shot it once. Loved it

Shooting practice live pigeons will make you think you are a flyer shooter. Shooting ZZ Birds will convince you that you are not.

There should be a sign hanging over the entrance to every Helice ring that says "About to be humbled", and once hanging inside every exit saying "Having been humbled".

It's the big thing in Texas and growing. Generally hard to take off elsewhere. I was in Atlanta last weekend visiting family and drove to Cherokee Rose; they have one permanent ring and set up another for competitions. About 6 or so dedicated shooters. To try to shoot the game in the "circuit" it involves a bit of traveling. Look at the US Helice Association schedule for their registered shoots and that stands out pretty clear.
I'm addicted and try to get to as many as possible but they're all a pretty far travel from Arizona. Arrieta2, I owe you some rounds of Helice, skeet or sporting clays; I'll holler next time in the Houston area.