individual status and shot as completely separate 
     
     events at different locations. For the first time, 
     
     too, a Calcutta Auction (buying participants) was held 
     
     in conjunction with the major event at each 
     
     championship, and provided an additional element of 
     
     excitement for the participants. 
     
    
   
   
    
     As the clay pigeon season ended in late September 
     
     both Bill Morrell and Teddy Woodruff accomplished 
     
     their first 100 straight at skeet. A few new 
     
     enthusiasts were frequenting the Club, including Jack 
     
     Stokes, and David Mosher of Charlottetown Metal 
     
     Products, and the few members still active resolved to 
     
     have a new location to consider by the time the warm 
     
     weather arrived next shooting season. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Spring was late arriving in 1972. In March clay 
     
     target shooting on P.E.I. lost another link to the 
     
     past with the passing of George (Bus) Peake, and by 
     
     May there was still too much snow around to consider 
     
     any activity at the gun club. The annual meeting was 
     
     held in the home of Harley Ings at Mount Herbert, the 
     
     first such get-together in quite a number of years, 
     
     with most of the few regulars in attendance. Those 
     
     searching out a potential new location over the winter 
     
     had done their work well, and leading the list were 
     
     two properties available for sale. One was located on 
     
     the Bethel Road, and the other on the old '48 Road,' 
     
     just beyond the village of Mount Albion. After 
     
     careful consideration--and price was the major 
     
     consideration--it was agreed to purchase the farm of 
     
     Warren Myers, in Mount Albion, for twenty-five hundred 
     
     dollars ($2,500.). The property was beyond the 
     
     pavement on the clay section of the road, about four 
     
     kilometers off the Trans Canada Highway at Hazelbrook. 
     
     It was approximately 40 acres, with a house and 
     
     outbuildings, and far enough from concentrated 
     
     population so as not to pose a concern regarding 
     
     noise. © After almost 80 years of clay target shooting 
     
     on the Island, at a multitude of locations, the 
     
     Charlottetown Gun Club had acquired a permanent home, 
     
     thanks to the few dedicated members who had seen it 
     
     through its darkest hours, and had taken the 
     
    
   
   
    
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