For many reasons, scores shot during this period of time were not high. Of the twenty five targets in a round of skeet, very few gunners ever broke as high as twenty. The best recorded score was a 21 shot by George Hardy in September of 1938, and, considering the handicaps, this was an excellent effort. The average round at the Charlottetown Skeet Club in the late 1930's was between ten and twelve targets, and there were contributing reasons: Most shooters were using their full and modified field guns, traps were producing less than perfect targets, the wire release usually delivered a bird a second or two late on the call, and rules of the day required a dropped stock-- All adding to the challenge, but not contributing to super scores.

Once again, as it did in 1914, war would interfere with an Island clay target club, at a time when it had just established itself, and obviously curtailed the possibility of any potential future growth. This time the stoppage was not gradual and self choking as it had been in 1914...this time it was quick, and it was permanent. In September of 1939, Adolph Hilter and his German armies invaded Poland, triggering a terrible war that would affect the world for the next six years, and, before it was finally over, threaten our own shores. Almost immediately the supply of recreational ammunition was stopped, and locally, when existing supplies were used up, the Charlottetown Skeet Club came to a grinding halt. It was swift, clean, and there was no alternative. The traps were taken from the houses and stored away, houses themselves were locked up, and, with more serious concerns to be faced, everything related to clay target shooting was soon forgotten.

Again, a large contingent of young Prince Edward Island men headed to Europe to fight for their country, among them a few members of the Skeet Club. Across North America top-classed skeet shooters were suddenly in demand as gunnery instructors. Moving target shooting, especially in the air force, was a

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