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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