in fact, was not unlike the trap used at our club today. Nicol patented his trap, and sold it to Remington who marketed it for a number of years ina lightweight aluminum model.

The first Provincial championship in July triggered a new enthusiasm toward competitive skeet shooting, and within a month plans were being made by a group of members to attend the Maritime Trap and Skeet Championships, slated for the Fredericton Gun Club on Labour Day. The Club ordered new shooting jackets in late June. They arrived in early August and were pale yellow in color with the club crest sewn on the back. Most of the regular members ordered one, and the $12.50 cost would be more than compensated when they arrived at Fredericton at least looking like a club of skeet shooters.

Through the summer of 1954 the Maritime Association encouraged the Charlottetown Club to expand and members even talked of hosting the Maritime Championships in the near future, but a new layout would have to be considered first, including the introduction of trapshooting. Henry Douglas was in the process of building the Club a new bear trap, and President Gillies and Hugh Simpson were reviewing the constitution and by-laws with an eye toward Incorporation.

On the Labour Day weekend nine members-—Ralph Jenkins, Gil Houston, Ron Atkinson, Wylie Bryenton, Art Hogan, Bob Hyndman, Ollie Harper, Glydon Willis, and Hugh Simpson--made the trip to the Fredericton Gun Club in Marysville, N.B., and the Maritime Championships, becoming the first Island clay target shooters to ever participate in a competition outside the province. I recall the trip over with Art H an the colorful jackets lined with crests, the seemingly over-officious refereeing, the targets that 'came too quickly' with the electric release, the delicious beans that were baked all day in an underground pit, my first encounter with now longtime shooting friend

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