southern United States and was more associated with warmer weather than was its sister sport of trapshooting. The winter season, with its bulkier clothing and requirement to shovel snow was not as adaptable to the fast-moving crossing targets and larger field areas used in skeet. It would be the Same on Prince Edward Island, and the new members wanted to get operational as quickly as possible since the summer was moving by. While the old traps were being restored, they considered a number of possible shooting areas, including the one that was finally obtained when Secretary/Treasurer, Sid Green, made a deal with property owner, Dr. Jack Blake, for a field on the east side of North River Road in West Royalty.

Ralph Jenkins' furniture van was again pressed into service in late July--and on one busy Saturday the buildings were moved, painted, and had the traps and wires installed. The new skeet field, located about 400 yards south of the Queen's Arms intersection (where the North River Road intersects the Trans Canada Highway today), was ready to entertain, and challenge, the excited membership.

The few members began to shoot skeet enthusiasti- cally, although only Bob Hyndman and Ollie Harper had ever participated, to any degree, at this fast-moving clay target sport. With only a few weeks left in the summer of 1946, the Club did not make any effort to enlist new members, but was content, in this first short season, to simply enjoy each other's gunning company and continue to improve the new facility. They added nine platform shooting stations (two at #8), approximately three feet square, constructed of wood planks. To give their small club some character, they painted a dark green color on the bottom half of the two skeet houses and pull house. Their score- sheets were a basic effort, done on a typewriter, and printed in quantity on the duplicating machine at Central Creameries Limited.

Unlike the old Charlottetown trap enthusiasts a

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