in the core of the block, behind the store, and it was always interesting to drop into his office, amid guns and mounted birds, for a morning coffee and chat on subjects usually associated with gunning and the outdoors...On this particular June day, his son Paul and I were listening to some skeet shooting stories, and Ralph suggested he would like to take us out to the range the coming Saturday afternoon...my only contact with the sport had been that very brief visual encounter five years before on the North River Road, and since that time I had purchased an old used Stevens pump gun from Al Owen at Holman's Hardware, and had done a bit of hunting. I was intrigued and took up Ralph's offer.

My memories of that first trip to the Charlottetown Skeet Club are vivid; again the speed of the targets, Ralph Jenkins instructing me how to stand and hold the gun properly (plus everyone else's confusing advice), Art Hogan's loud call of "Pull," the speed which this little guy in our squad used in breaking the low house target on station 7 (my barber, Ollie Harper), and my score of twelve.

I have always been impulsive where sports are concerned, and knew immediately that I had found another challenge to enjoy, to the extent that the following Monday I ordered a new shotgun that would serve me well through many years of clay target shooting--and there are times today I wish I still had my old, reliable Ithaca Model 37 pump gun, with poly- choke.

The big news on the Canadian clay target scene in 1952 was a young seventeen year old trapshooter from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. George Genereaux was the toast of International target shooting, having just won for Canada the gold medal in trapshooting at the Olympic Games in Helsinki Finland.

By fall, the new momentum the executive was encouraging became evident. The Club had joined the

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