The following Saturday a flat-bed trailer, quietly donated, picked up the relic and deposited it on site at Highfield. That same day (May 7th) a large work crew of members was on hand staking out the new skeet fields, deciding where trapshooting would be set up, and placing footings and carriers for the new clubhouse so it could be set right into position. Ollie Harper brought a young man out to the gun club to help, a teenager who had recently moved to Charlottetown, loved shooting and the outdoors, and would spend many future hours maintaining the clay target games in this province...his name was Willard Parker Morrell.

In the weeks that followed, the old kennel club benches that had been inherited by the gun club were finally put to use as a floor in the 'new' clubhouse. The walls and ceilings were covered with beaverboard, a new front step was built by Sid Green and Ollie Harper, the building was painted inside and out, and the old coal shed that was almost destroyed was restored, and would serve the Charlottetown Gun Club for the next quarter century.

On May 10th a grader and operator moved in and, for a dozen beer, levelled the area for the new skeet fields, cutting in some spots to a depth of 3 feet. A visit to the location today, after almost 30 years, will still show the depression and long, level stretch of ground. The members immediately raked and seeded the area in preparation for the new buildings.

The new trapshooting layout was established just west of the old skeet field. A pit was dug, house built, and base constructed for the manual release arm. The game of trapshooting, that for one reason or another had been resisted for over seventy years in Charlottetown, finally arrived. The field was ready in mid-May; it was fun, and convenient for all gunners with their full and modified field guns. It would not be as big as a game in this area as skeet shooting, but it did bring new members into the club, and until the new skeet fields were ready, it provided something to shoot.

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