Most tie scores in skeet shooting were decided by the longest 'run' but on occasion, when planned ahead, a shootoff would be held, and it would simply be an additional round with the first one to miss...out. The 'long run' was calculated anywhere in the score, and not at either end as it is today.

In the fall, Bob Hyndman became president of the Club for the second time, a fall best remembered for yet another mine tragedy in Springhill, Nova Scotia, when, on October 23rd, a second terrible explosion within a decade, deep in the Cumberland County hills, took the lives of 79 men.

There were few new followers of the clay target games in Charlottetown, but three young men joined the Club in 1959 who in particular would do their share to help carry it into the new decade. They were produce Manager Roy Vessey; lineman Lorne Doiron; and Lea Windsor of Cavendish, P.E.I., an engineer and former Canadian Junior Golf Champion.

In 1959 the Club's existence relied on momentum alone from the past few years. Ollie Harper became, to our knowledge, the first Prince Edward Island shooter, since Major Bill Weeks in 1913, to load his own ammunition when he obtained a small loading press built by the Mayville Engineering Company (MEC). A box of target loads was still costing only $1.50 so the saving related to the process was still in question. The biggest event of the year was the Provincial Championships held on a rainy, windy Dominion Day and the largest crowd in three years was on hand to participate. Some preshoot advertising also had a large group of spectators sitting in their vehicles watching the procedure. A class for first time shooters was added in the hopes of attracting some new members. The results of the shoot were reported in Monday's Guardian under the following caption:

"WALTER CARVER COPS SKEET, TRAP CROWNS"

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