Lloyd Mattinson of Truro; and my nervousness--not because I was attending my first major competition, but because two weeks from the day I was going to be married, 65 miles up-river in Woodstock.

The competition at Fredericton was 100 classified skeet targets, and 50 trap targets based on the Lewis Class system, for the Maritime Championship. The Lewis Class system was used when no averages were available, and was based on the number of participants rather than their classed ability. Laurie Saulnier of Halifax won the Skeet title with 96 x 100, and the trap with 45 x 50. The Charlottetown shooters did well, considering it was their first exposure to the snappy electric traps that, seemingly, made the targets appear before they were called for. Glydon Willis won Class D with a 91, and Ollie Harper was runner-up with 85. Hughie Simpson's 81 took Class E, and in trap shooting Wylie Bryenton was runner-up in Class C. It was apparently the first time that Island clay target shooters had ever seen, or participated in regulation trapshooting and all except one entered the 50 bird event. The big excitement at the Fredericton Gun Club for the Island delegation was that Ollie Harper, Glydon Willis, Ron Atkinson, Bob Hyndman, and Hugh Simpson, won the Maritime five-man team skeet Championship. The badges won at that event would be a source of pride for years to come.

One other event at the Fredericton shoot that had local gunners watching in amazement was the sub-small gauge (.410), and the 50 target contest was the first time that anything other than 12 gauge had been held in Maritime competition. Three Charlottetown gunners participated, with borrowed guns, and were amazed that a fast moving clay pigeon could actually be hit with such a small charge of lead. The only experience at skeet that any of our gunners had with a .410 was a couple of weeks before when Allie Foster arrived at the Club, and caused a small sensation, trying to hit Clay targets with a .410 pistol.

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