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Helice South East Intercounties Team 2024
The 2024 team for the South East Intercounties held at Invicta on Sunday 11th August 2024 is as below:-
Seniors
Graham Woodman
John Wilmott
Mark Burrows
Katie Durrant
Lady - Katie Durrant
Veteran - John Wilmott
Please click here to see the report from the event.
Helice County Championship
Invicta - Sunday 12th May 2024
Champion - John Wilmott
Super Veteran - Dave Court
Veteran - Mark Burrows (after shoot off with Graham Woodman)
Lady - Katie Durrant
Junior - Not Contested
Helice South East Intercounties
Invicta - Sunday 10th September 2023
Essex managed to get a near full team toegther for the Helice SE Intercounties this year. The senior team came 3rd considering a couple of them had never shot Helice before. Congratulations also to Jake Crockford who was the Essex Colt who took the overall Colt SE title.
Seniors
John Wilmott
Graham Woodman
Todd Bridge
Andrew Crockford
Billy Theobald
Colt
Jake Crockford
Veteran
David Court
Super Veteran
Billy Theobald
Please click here to see the South East's report
Helice County Championship
Invicta - 19th May
The beautifully scenic hillside that is Invicta shooting ground in Tonbridge, Kent, was the venue for the Essex Helice Championship and Essex Helice shooting Team selection shoot. While the day started a little overcast, the wind was kind and weather relatively warm. Despite the good shooting weather those pesky ZZ birds still proved very difficult for some of us. Not so for young Mason Terry (14 yrs old, pictured below) who when the dust had settled, took the overall champion title and is now the youngest Essex Helice champion of the last decade. Alongside him Jessica Byard (12 yrs old) continues her recent good form and secured the Essex Ladies champion title while stalwart Graham Woodman took the veteran title.
The rest of us had to settle for a great day out and a place in the Essex team. A massive thank you goes to Chris Potter and the entire team at Invicta for hosting the event and organising everything for us and of course the ladies in the kitchen that as always kept us fed and watered throughout the day. If anyone hasn’t tried ZZ / Helice, you really should give it a try, you never know, you may just find a hidden talent for it and go on to represent GB internationally as I have had the pleasure to do. To all the other non essex, Helice shooters that attended today’s shoot, well done all, see you soon we hope.
Essex Helice Championship – 9th June 2018 at the A1 Shooting Ground
Today saw the Essex Helice Championship and team selection take place at A1 shooting ground in glorious weather. After the dust settles some great scores had been placed by both Essex and non Essex Shooters and the High Gun as well as championship were won with a very credible 22/24. Results were very good in all categories and as a result it lolly’s like Essex may well field a strong team in the coming Inter County Championship this September. Full results were:
High Gun and Overall Champion - Lee Byard 22/24
Colt Champion - Mason Terry 20/24
Ladies Champion - Jessica Byard 18/24
Senior Champion - Graham Woodman 18/24
Veteran Champion - Peter Hoare 15/24
Essex Helice Shooting Team:
Lee Byard
Mason Terry (New Cap)
Jessica Byard
Paul Terry (New Cap)
Graham Woodman
Peter Lunn (New Cap)
Mason Terry - Colt
Jessica Byard - Lady
Graham Woodman - Senior
Peter Hoare - Vet
The day was perfectly managed by Claudio and Teresa and all of their team at A1 shooting ground who work so hard to ensure that the shoots run smoothly despite ZZ targets and traps doing their very best to upset things ????. Big thanks to all the other British Helice shooters for joining us today and making the shoot so much more enjoyable and a special mention to Sandie Bucklerfor her help and guidance today and of course presenting all of the trophies and badges to everyone. Roll on the Inter-Counties ????
Essex Helice Championship – Sat 22nd April 2017 @ A1 Shooting Ground
With contestants in every category except Juniors, the Essex Helice shooters were joined by a number of GB Team and other Helice shooters for a tough competition on a somewhat chilly morning this Saturday at A1. Claudio and his team put on a brilliant event as always and some great scores were achieved, not least of which were the 2 straights achieved by the 2017 Essex Champion Graham Woodman and GB Junior, Fletcher King who never missed a thing all day. Graham was joined by Peter Hoare who was crowned Essex Veteran Champion, Bill Logan (Snr) Essex Super Vet Champion and Jessica Byard who won the Lady and Colt Categories to be crowned champion in both. The Essex Helice Team were selected form the 5 best scores for the Senior team, the highest scoring Vet, Super Vet and Colt and are conformed as: Graham Woodman, Lee Byard, Troy Petherbridge, Conner Logan, Phil Dyer, Peter Hoare, Bill Logan (Snr) and Jessica Byard and they will go on to compete at the ZZ intercounty shoot in September on behalf of Essex.
2016 ZZ Championships
A cold but sunny day greeted the competitors for the Essex ZZ Helice Championships at the A1 Shooting Ground on the 12th March. Despite these conditions no-one managed to straight the competition, with Lee Byard leading the Essex pack with 12/15. Bryan Freeman won through in the Vets category and Pam Dorrington took the Ladies title.
The photo below shows, left to right:
Bryan Freeman (Vets Champion)
Lee Byard (Champion)
Pam Dorrington (Ladies Champion)
The full list of Essex results is below:
| Name | County | CPSA | TOTAL |
| Lee Byard (Snr) | Essex | 725 | 12 |
| Graham Woodman (Snr) | Essex | 96052 | 11 |
| Billy Logan (Snr) | Essex | 65536 | 10 |
| Brian Freeman (Vet) | Essex | 3885 | 10 |
| Shane Maynard (Snr) | Essex | 123109 | 10 |
| Toby Bean (Snr) | Essex | 129088 | 10 |
| Troy Petherbridge (Snr) | Essex | 115717 | 8 |
| Pam Dorrington (Ldy) | Essex | 40176 | 7 |
2015 ZZ Championships
Graham Woodman was the only Essex competitor to return a perfect 15 ex 15 at the Essex ZZ Championship held at the A1 GC on 18th April 2015. The weather held dry all day and improved from overcast to a nice sunny day for the total of 15 competitors on the day.
Bryan Freeman only dropped one target to take the vets title and Pam Dorrington was the ladies champion.
The picture below shows, left to right:
Lady Champion Pam Dorrington 7/15
Veteran Champion Bryan Freeman 14/15
Champion Graham Woodman 15/15
ZZ Championshipship
There was a good turnout for the 2014 ZZ Championships held on the 17th May at the A1 Shooting Ground on a beautiful, calm, summy day. The 15 target competition was shot over two layouts, creating even more of a variation in target flight. The competition was so close that it was effectively decided on each competitor's last three targets.
Essex scores:
| Bryan Freeman | 12 | Champion |
| John Haas | 11 | Vets Champion |
| Hilary Haas | 11 | Lady Champion |
| Barry Summerhayes | 11 | |
| David Henshaw | 10 | |
| Bill Logan Jnr | 10 | |
| Shane Maynard | 10 | |
| Pam Dorrington | 8 |
Left to right: Bryan Freeman Champion; Hilary Haas Lady Champion; John Haas Vet Champion.
ZZ County Championship – Malcolm Clarke: Veteran's Champion 2013
ZZ County Championship – A1 SG 10th March 2012
Matthew Holley who came second after a shoot-off with Bill Logan
The A1SG hosted the ZZ County Championship and after a tense sudden-death shoot off it was Bill Logan who once again took the title from youngster Matthew Holley.
ZZ County Championship – A1 SG 9th April 2011
The A1 Shooting ground hosted the Essex ZZ Championship on the 9th of April. It was a warm but windy day and none other than Billy Logan emerged victorious with a near perfect score, missing the very last bird for 14 ex 15.
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Helice (ZZ) County Championship - A1 SG 12th June 2010 |
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Position |
Name |
Score |
Targets |
|
Champion |
Bryan Freeman |
15 |
15 |
|
Ladies |
Debbie Hermitage |
12 |
15 |
Debbie Hermitage
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Helice (ZZ) County Championship - A1 SG 12th June 2010 |
|
Position |
Name |
Score |
Targets |
|
Champion |
Bryan Freeman |
15 |
15 |
|
Ladies |
Debbie Hermitage |
12 |
15 |
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Helice (ZZ) County Championship - A1 SG 27th June 2009 |
|
Position |
Name |
Score |
Targets |
|
Champion |
Billy Logan |
15 |
15 |
|
Veteran |
Gavan Dixon |
12 |
15 |
|
|
Chris Wright |
12 |
15 |
|
|
David Lewsey |
9 |
15 |
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Helice (ZZ) County Championship - A1 SG 26th April 2008 |
|
Position |
Name |
Score |
Targets |
|
Champion |
Billy Logan |
11 |
15 |
|
Junior |
Connor Logan |
7 |
15 |
|
Veteran |
Gavan Dixon |
7 |
15 |
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Helice (ZZ) County Championship - A1 SG 6th October 2007 |
|
Position |
Name |
Score |
Targets |
|
Champion |
W Logan |
14 |
15 |
|
Junior |
C Logan |
13 |
15 |
|
Lady |
P Dorrington |
7 |
15 |
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Helice (ZZ) County Championship - A1 SG 16th September 2006 |
|
Position |
Name |
Score |
Targets |
|
Champion |
Joe Baker |
16 |
18 |
|
|
John Henshaw |
16 |
18 |
|
Lady |
Tracy Meston |
|
18 |
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Helice (ZZ) County Championship - A1 SG 21st May 2005 |
|
Position |
Name |
Score |
Targets |
|
Champion |
Chris Wright |
17 |
20 |
|
Runner Up |
Lou Chapman |
15 |
20 |
|
Veteran |
Ron Gurney |
9 |
20 |
|
Lady |
Ann Gurney |
6 |
20 |