Bill Hobkirk 1011 0 3 George Macleod 1 01 0 0 2 Arthur Peters 01 00#421 2 Frederick Peters 1 01 0 0 2 Louis H. Davies 1 00 0 0 1 Francis Haszard 0 00 0 0 0

The club had been operational for six months, conducted eleven shoots, and used up in excess of 500 targets, or more than ten baskets. Dodd & Rogers Hardware was finding they had to place orders for targets well in advance in order to obtain them, as the demand in the country was outstripping George Ligowski's ability to produce them. So far the members were able to get what they ordered, but there were Signs that problems could develop in the future.

The club's shooting procedure was slow, and indications were that the time taken to participate was two to three hours, so the more members that showed up, the fewer targets each would have to shoot at. It was deliberate shooting, but they enjoyed it that way. If there was any one significant factor that developed in the first six months of clay target trapshooting, it was the dominating shooting ability of William C. Hobkirk. Bill Hobkirk was the son of a prominent Charlottetown doctor, W. H. Hobkirk, and had always been considered an excellent wingshot. But it was his performance with a shotgun at clay targets that was already making him legendary on Prince Edward Island. In 1884 he shot at 94 targets and broke 78 of them for an average of 82.9%, twenty points ahead of his closest rival. This was not high by today's standards, but considering the equipment in the nineteenth century, it was excellent. One more new member joined before the year ended. Charlottetown Barrister Eustace H. Haviland, a longtime wildfowl shooter and outdoorsman, would become one of the enduring members who would stay with the Club through its lifetime.

In January of 1885, the Belvidere Gun Club, planning a busy winter of competition, was hampered to

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