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Our club got a set of ZZ bird machines. They had some that they got and never worked. Today myself and 2 other friends went out and shot. I have only done this once, many years ago. It was a humbling experience today. I shot box birds pigeons some when I was in my 20s. In my opinion zzs are much harder. The flight pattern seems to me be more erratic. Harder to see. Smaller than pigeons. Could be my eyes were better in my 20s. Anyway I really had fun and will be doing it more often. I can see you can get get addicted to it.

Try it at least if you have the chance.

If you happen to come to Houston we can go out and shoot it. ( You have to pay your own way)

You will enjoy it.

John
Arrieta

Addictive? Hell yes it is. My club here in N.C. used to have the old ZZ Birds. The ones with metal propellers. After a while and many hits they would get slightly bent, that would make them fly very eractic. I used to stay up at night thinking of what I needed to make me better at it.
Recently here in NC a club, Hunters Pointe installed a Helice ring. I traveled down last fall and shot some. It just rekindled an old flame inside.

I love shooting ZZ birds. In my opinion, it is the most difficult shotgun game, but very addicting. Unfortunately, I have not found a single ring in all of Colorado.

Fun to shoot! Most complain that they can shoot a rounc of trap or skeet for what a single Helice target costs-so.............

Rick Mein set up a ring at one of our club shoots.
My first attempt was about 50%. Rick an accomplished shooter to say the least said “don’t lead them, shoot right at them.” Bingo!

Helice is really all I shoot anymore, the most challenging, most fun game I have shot.
We have a group that shoots every Saturday at Selwood in central Alabama.
We "slide" back one meter on straight 5's, there have only been 5 perfect 30's shot in 10 years.

I’ve shot at Hunters Pointe twice. It’s an instinctive point and shoot game. Lots of fun. It takes sharp reflexes to be competitive. On YouTube there’s a club in Italy that uses 410s. What a hoot that would be

The only place I've ever shot them was in Colorado, but it was over thirty years ago at the old Winchester built trap & skeet range east of Lafyette on hiwy 7. One of the pro shooters & gun fitters at the range had bought a set-up & I found them extremely challenging to shoot. I haven't seen another set-up in the state since then. The man that had the set-up still does gun fitting & instruction at Colorado Clays and I need to ask him about it the next time I run into him.

2024 National Helice Championship at the Dallas Gun Club May 2024

Cow pasture ZZ shoot near Bisbee, AZ. Chiricahua Mtns to the R