distances; and Improved-Cylinder for close range 
     
     shooting. All three chokes were used, with Full and 
     
     Modified being the most popular. With the advent of 
     
     skeet shooting, the more open bore returned to 
     
     popularity. The short range (21 yards), and fast 
     
     moving targets, soon encouraged manufacturers to 
     
     produce a skeet bore, a slight constriction that, 
     
     depending on the manufacturer, is basically the same 
     
     choke as the Improved-Cylinder. Unlike trapshooting, 
     
     which requires the use of the larger twelve gauge, 
     
     skeet was an ideal game for the smaller gauges: 16, 
     
     20, 24, 28, and the baby bore, .410, all accepted the 
     
     Challenge of short range targets and grew in 
     
     popularity on the skeet ranges, although time would 
     
     See the eventual demise of the 16 and 24, but an 
     
     increased use of the others. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Charlottetown Skeet Club continued to operate 
     
     once a week through the summers of 1936, 1937, and 
     
     1938, when once again war clouds in Europe would 
     
     stifle any momentum which may have been building to 
     
     firmly establish the clay target game on Prince Edward 
     
     Island. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The club of this era was not well organized, and 
     
     no one really seemed to care. There were few meet- 
     
     ings, no organized competitions, and all of the re- 
     
     quired upkeep was done by the members during Saturday 
     
     afternoon shoots. These weekly shoots were well 
     
     attended, by members and the occasional visitor, and 
     
     it appears all were satisfied to approach skeet 
     
     shooting as a personal challenge, and to simply shoot 
     
     better this week than last. Like clay target shooters 
     
     before them, and those who came after, they did have 
     
     fun--there were private squad contests, personal 
     
     challenges, 'auction' shoots, and grudge matches, 
     
     undoubtedly with a few pooled coins going to the 
     
     winners. It always seems, whether there is 
     
     organization or not, when scattergunners get together 
     
     to shoot a round of skeet or trap, there is always 
     
     some sort of inherent challenge...and always a method 
     
     to settle it. 
     
    
   
   
    
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