few decades before, who were primarily wildfowl gunners, these modern skeet shooters were, almost to a man, devoted to upland bird shooting, and by mid September were busy on Saturdays working their dogs in anticipation of the coming Pheasant and Hungarian Partridge season. Skeet shooting was fun, but bird shooting still had priority.

The challenging pheasant had been introduced to the province within the past decade and, in fact, were still undergoing an organized release plan, due mainly to the efforts of local outdoorsmen who counted among their numbers most of the members of the Charlottetown Skeet Club. They, for this reason, were quite Satisfied to shut their clay target operation down for the hunting season...and the winter.

The types of shotguns being used throughout the world were undergoing an evolutionary change that had begun in the mid-thirties, picked up in wartime, and now, in the post-war period, was moving at a fever pitch. The most popular smoothbore had always been the reliable side by side double barrel with a full and modified choke; or, for the upland shooter, the improved-cylinder, with its better short range patterns. Now all this was changing in favor of the single barrel--the simplified sighting plane, in either a pump or semi-automatic action, which was being mass produced by the thousands. The manufacturers, (Browning, Winchester, and Remington, to name a few,) had been building these guns for years but now, in the post-war economic explosion, their heavy advertising programmes selling lightness, balance, and speed were causing shotgunners everywhere to stop, look...and buy. The transition was evident at the Charlottetown Skeet Club as more and more members began to move away from their old side-by- sides, and new, single barrel scatterguns began to

appear.

The Skeet Club held a short meeting in the spring of 1947 to plan their Saturday shooting dates, and to arrange financing for a few cases of targets and

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