BRAGA, Portugal — Team B&P competitor Macie Page broke 29 of 30 targets at the Clube dos Caçadores de Braga to win the Ladies title at the 36th FITASC World Helice Championship, giving the Texas shooter her third consecutive world championship in the discipline. The event opened Aug. 29 and closed with the world championship Sept. 4-6.
While her score did settle the Ladies race, it also tied Page for fourth in the open standings, where she was one of 16 shooters stacked at 29 in a field of more than 300 representing a dozen countries. No other woman in the match finished higher. Emanuela Barilla of Italy and Flora Silva of Portugal both closed at 27, with Barilla claiming Ladies silver on a shoot-off. Mary McLaughlin of the United States was fourth at 26.
Page arrived in Portugal defending titles won in 2024 and 2025, and this year’s world championship was the last of several trophies she collected during the nine-day program. B&P reports that she also won Ladies honors in the FITASC Grand Prix of Portugal, the Portuguese Championship, the President’s Cup and the Ladies Beretta Cup. Page also shot on the gold-medal United States women’s squad in the Match of Nations.
“There is something incredibly special about winning a World Championship, and I don’t think that feeling ever gets old,” Page said. “Coming to Portugal as the defending champion brings its own kind of pressure, so to win for the third year in a row means a tremendous amount to me. I felt confident in my shooting throughout the week, and being able to put together strong performances across so many different events made this one I’ll always remember.”
Sharing on social media afterward, Page said the week carried extra weight because her family made the trip. “I am so grateful to have had the chance to compete at this year’s world shoot in Braga, Portugal,” she wrote. “This one was especially sweet getting to have my whole family there supporting me.”
In helice, competitors stand 26 meters from the ring while any of five machines throws a ZZ bird, an orange plastic propeller with pitched wings that spin past 5,000 rpm off the launch. No two flights repeat, so a shooter works off reaction time and a gun mount that comes up the same way on every call. Scoring is just as unforgiving: the white center witness has to break free and drop inside the fence to count, which is why scores in the high 20s usually decide the podium in a world-class field.
“Macie’s performance in Portugal was nothing short of exceptional,” said Christian Hogg, director of marketing for B&P. “Winning a World Championship is an incredible accomplishment on its own, but to sweep five Ladies titles over the course of the competition speaks volumes about her talent, preparation, consistency and ability to perform under pressure.”
Page has shot for the B&P Pro Team since 2023, the same year she won Lady and Junior honors at the U.S. National Helice Championship in Stockton, California. But, she was a B&P customer well before the sponsorship, citing the shells recoil as the reason she settled on them early.
Three world titles in three years puts Page in territory few U.S. helice shooters have reached, and at an age when most of her peers are still chasing a first international podium.
The host club gave the week its own milestone. Founded in May 1900 and operating from its Alto da Vela complex since 2017, the Clube dos Caçadores de Braga staged a world shooting championship for the first time in its 125-year history, and FITASC had not brought the ZZ helice worlds back to Portugal since Porto hosted 13 years ago. Organizers put a total prize pool of 50,000 euros across the program.
Complete results from the 36th World Helice Championship are posted at fitasc.com. Learn more about B&P at baschieri-pellagriusa.com.
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