major consideration, and the game of skeet was 
     
     considered the perfect training ground. In 1941, 
     
     following the Japanese strike at Pearl Harbour, the 
     
     United States began a war that would prominently 
     
     involve skeet shooting as a training medium. Complete 
     
     fields were set up in every area of combat, many 
     
     shipments of traps, targets, and ammunition were moved 
     
     in; and it is a matter of record that many of today's 
     
     veteran skeet enthusiasts, and top average shooters, 
     
     had their first taste of skeet shooting on some 
     
     isolated island in the South Pacific. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The long six-year seige, as it had 30 years 
     
     before, took its toll in enthusiasm toward clay target 
     
     shooting. As the war came to a close, another segment 
     
     of memories, relating to the old Newstead days, was 
     
     lost with the passing of two individuals who had 
     
     played an important role in establishing the clay 
     
     target game in Charlottetown. Within the span of one 
     
     year the Peake brothers, Arthur and Ernest, had died. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A year after the war to end all wars was over, 
     
     one of the potentials that might have helped skeet 
     
     shooting reorganize in this area was taken away with 
     
     the sudden, untimely passing of George Hardy. The man 
     
     who had brought the game to Charlottetown, obviously 
     
     distressed by some unknown turmoil, took his own life. 
     
    
   
   
    
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