shot by Arthur Clements of Montague was good enough to 
     
     take the skeet title, as was Alan Crue's 47 at trap. 
     
     This would be the first year the Club would add an 
     
     overall award, the best combination score at both trap 
     
     and skeet and this first year Walter Carver would win 
     
     it in an exciting shootoff with Ken Clements. Both 
     
     had identical scores of 92. In attendance at this 
     
     shoot, with a borrowed gun, was the Club's honorary 
     
     President, O. S. (Ollie) Harper, who was shooting his 
     
     first skeet targets in seven years. He found the old 
     
     skills were rusted, but not destroyed, as he shot well 
     
     enough to take the runner-up badge in Class B. For 
     
     the first time in a number of years, a bear trap was 
     
     held, with Kenny Clements of Montague taking top 
     
     prize, shattering 12 straight targets. 
     
    
   
   
    
     On the active Atlantic scene a Halifax gunner, 
     
     Fred Harrigan, was burning up the skeet fields, 
     
     winning almost everything in sight, while young Susan 
     
     Nichols of Bedford was becoming the first lady shooter 
     
     to establish herself in the top classes of a 
     
     supposedly male-dominated sport. Other leading 
     
     gunners at the time were Ron Hatfield (Clark's 
     
     Harbour), Lloyd Mattinson (Truro), Bob Short 
     
     (Dartmouth), and Roy Langille (Lunenburg). Another 
     
     notable, in 1967, was trapshooter John McCurdy of 
     
     Sydney who missed very few Atlantic shoots, and was 
     
     still winning a share of the silverware at 90 years of 
     
     age! 
     
    
   
   
    
     For the next three years the Charlottetown Gun 
     
     Club declined to simply a few dedicated enthusiasts 
     
     who enjoyed the clay target games enough to visit the 
     
     Club twice a week to shoot a round or two, and to act 
     
     as trapboys for the casual shooters, and former 
     
     members, who dropped in from time to time. In 1968 
     
     only Bill Morrell, George Carson, Harley Ings, Ted 
     
     Woodruff, Bob Hyndman and Hugh Simpson's son, Richie, 
     
     paid their memberships and attempted to keep the Club 
     
     going. At the same time the Clubs in both Summerside 
     
     and Montague were going through a similar membership 
     
     decline, from which neither would recover. The 
     
    
   
   
    
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