The first shoot on the new layout, and the first 
     
     of the season, was held on August 12th with a very 
     
     small turnout, as would be the pattern for what was 
     
     left of the season. On August 26th, in the A.M., 
     
     prior to regular shooting, the range was open to 
     
     Maritime Electric Co. Ltd., to conduct a staff shoot 
     
     which, to our knowledge, was the first time a clay 
     
     target facility on the Island was ever used for a 
     
     private competition. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In the Maritimes, clay target shooting was 
     
     booming, still running successfully on the momentum 
     
     built by Dunc Morrison in the 1950's. The three-day 
     
     championship shoot, with new skeet and trap events, 
     
     was held in Halifax over the Labour Day weekend, with 
     
     the largest entry in history participating, including 
     
     gunners from the newer clubs like St. John's, 
     
     Newfoundland, and Stellarton, Nova Scotia. With the 
     
     Newfoundland Club came a motion, and approval, at the 
     
     annual meeting to change the name of the organization 
     
     to the Atlantic Trap and Skeet Association (A.T.S.A.). 
     
     While things were going well on the Maritime scene it 
     
     was the opposite in Charlottetown with only eleven 
     
     gunners paying dues for the year, and were it not for 
     
     the efforts of Bob Hyndman, George Carson, Harley Ings 
     
     and Bill Morrell, the Club may well have died. 
     
    
   
   
    
     While casual activity was low-ebb there was 
     
     always the challenge of the Provincial Championships, 
     
     and just the anticipation of them picked up the pace 
     
     in late summer. They were held on the single field at 
     
     Mount Herbert on Sept. 17th, and, to accommodate 
     
     expected numbers, were started early in the morning. 
     
     It was a good decision because before the day was over 
     
     28 entries had shot skeet, and a record breaking 39 
     
     entries, trap. To add a flair, Harry Cottle of 
     
     C.I.L., who had inherited Dunc Morrison's job as 
     
     Secretary/Treasurer of the Maritime Association, was 
     
     on hand to officially open the new field. Former 
     
     champion Bob Hyndman won the skeet title witha 48, 
     
     following a shootoff with Ken Clements of Montague. 
     
     Don Boulter of Summerside took the trap title with 49, 
     
    
   
   
    
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