with a few relatives and friends, at the farm of 
     
     Captain Wallace Smith in Pownal. Among them were 
     
     Wallace Smith's sons, Harold and Ted, George 
     
     MacLennan, Ernest McCabe, and Percy Simmonds. It was 
     
     nothing regular or organized, just an afternoon's 
     
     outing with a simple field trap not unlike the ones 
     
     used in the old Belvidere and Newstead Clubs; in fact, 
     
     there is the possibility that it may even have been 
     
     one of the old traps of the former gun club. George 
     
     MacLennan of Alexandra had been, for some unknown 
     
     reason, been storing the old pair of skeet traps in 
     
     his barn, and suggested to Sid Green that a new club 
     
     would be welcome to them. 
     
    
   
   
    
     When Ollie Harper heard of the existence of the 
     
     traps, it wasn't long before they had been reclaimed, 
     
     in the interest of reorganization, and a short trip to 
     
     Winsloe verified the continued existence of the ten 
     
     year old buildings that were still on the site of the 
     
     former clay target club. The trap houses and pull 
     
     house were attainable, but the property they had 
     
     existed on had been sold and put to alternate use; so, 
     
     if the Club was going to regenerate, an alternate 
     
     shooting site would have to be found. 
     
    
   
   
    
     1946 was the year that 'Ball Powder' was 
     
     introduced in shot shells. The Winchester Company had 
     
     been working on its development since 1933, and, to 
     
     gunmakers and owners, the process eased decades of 
     
     concern, relative to barrel erosion, due to its much 
     
     lower flame temperatures. Other ball powder features 
     
     included a very high grain density, less muzzle flash, 
     
     and ballistic uniformity. Ball Powders would also 
     
     assist a major transition in the shotshell market, a 
     
     transition that was in a very early stage of 
     
     development, but one that would grow to have a ma7jor 
     
     impact on the industry--the volume reloading of 
     
     expended hulls. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The first meeting to reorganize the Charlottetown 
     
    
   
   
    
     Skeet Club was held on July 10th, in the office of 
     
     Island Furriers at 153 Queen Street. Among those 
     
    
   
   
    
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