Maritime clay target habits would have a major influence on the Charlottetown Club for the next few years. Major shooting events were now based on 100 targets, and gunners were wearing jackets especially designed for the game, with padded shoulder, and pockets large enough to carry a full box of ammunition. These jackets were emblazoned with colorful crests that became a status of ability in all shooting classes, and some were even lucky enough to have the Dominion Marksman badge that really set a gunner apart from most others...the badge that said "25 STRAIGHT." Two and five-man teams became an important part of competitions, and Sunday shooting, unheard of on P.E.I., became the standard in a number of Maritime centres, while the majority remained with the long established Wednesday and Saturday afternoon tradition.

In the spring of 1952 N.S.S.A. was working on changes to its skeet rules. One would allow guns to be mounted on the shoulder when calling for a bird and many skeet shooters immediately adopted it, especially the newer members who found it difficult to get ona fast moving target with a 'dropped' gun.

Bob Hyndman was re-elected Club President in 1952, Tam Gillies was Vice-President and Art Hogan, Secretary/Treasurer. There had been some problems, the past year or so, with the release wires running across the ground, so the first effort in the spring was to bury them in a l-inch pipe provided by Howard Douglas of Douglas Brothers and Jones, totally eliminating the walking on, or tripping over, the wires that ran from the pull house to the trap houses. At each station a barrel was placed to look after the useless empty hulls, and a stake and small platform was erected so the shooter could place his box of ammunition in front of him when shooting.

In June of 1952, I was home from university, and

working with my father in his grocery store on Grafton Street. Ralph Jenkins' trucking business was located

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