Taking alternate turns, Hobkirk showed signs of things to come by breaking his first four straight, and twelve out of fifteen for the day. Because there was no competition they shot an unequal number of targets, and the first day's shooting ended as follows:

W.C. Hobkirk 111100111110111 12/15 V.W. Worden 0001001011101 6/13 F.L. Haszard 001000100001 3/12 E.S. Blanchard 01001000001110 5/14

Shooting targets in this manner was slow, and members took turns loading, pulling and shooting. They deliberated after each shot, and a great deal of time was spent just to get a dozen shots away. But this basic format, with a few added frills, unrelated as it was to the now standardized game, would dominate trapshooting on Prince Edward Island for many years to come.

The second shoot of the club was held at Belvidere the following Friday afternoon, and things being new, experimentation was still taking place. They set the trap at the second notch to get more elevation on the targets and to adda bit of a challenge. They placed a screen in front of the trap so the "loader" might give it a slight angle left or right, which way would be unknown to the shooter standing at the ready.

The new elevation and angles did not bother Bill Hobkirk, who led all the shooters for the day with 18 out of 19 targets "dead"...the best shooting perfor- mance the club would see until 1887. Two other decisions that were important to future competitions were made this day: One, and obviously important to the success of any shooting contest, was that all gunners should shoot at an equal number of targets. The other was that those shooting side-by-side doubles would be allowed to place two shells in the chamber so that if the first shot was missed, an attempt could be

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