very serious concern. A problem that, when solved, would set the Club on the road to recovery and into an era of activity that, in 1970, was beyond the current members' wildest imagination.

Over the past couple of years the Maritime ammunition market had experienced a major change. The seemingly endless domination of C.I.L. was over. The Winchester Corporation had taken over the bulk of not only the ammunition business, but also the sale of firearms, especially since the recent introduction of their new over/under Model 101, which could now be purchased on the market for $395. Winchester's representative in the Maritimes was a young man named Bill Hopps (no relative of the sweet smelling nitro- solvent family), who visited both gun club and retail outlet in an effort to further establish the name. With Winchester came another major transition for clay target enthusiasts--the mass availability of components for reloading; and, with factory ammunition costing upwards of $3.00 a box, it did not take anyone interested in any volume of shotgunning long to pick up a self-loading device, and get into the swing of reloading shells. By 1971 the common technical talk among target shooters and hunters alike changed from barrel length and choking devices to hulls, primers, wads, pressures and feet-per-second.

The major problem, expressed earlier, facing the clay target shooters at Mount Herbert, came during the summer of 1971 when a routine soil analysis revealed to Harley Ings that the 'lead rain,' which ‘had been falling for the past six years in the area of the trap and skeet field, was posing a potential threat to his annual corn crop, and indeed to future crops that might be planted in the area. Shooting continued, but almost immediately the members that were left in the Club agreed to protect the land and once again Seriously considered relocation, to the extent that by mid-September some new areas were already being considered.

Apart from the few locals only Jim Little, Harold

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