skeet houses, around for almost two decades, and 
     
     hopefully moved for the last time, were set up about 
     
     100 yards from the highway. The clubhouse (the old 
     
     reject from the Brighton military compound), and trap 
     
     field were located in close proximity, and the 
     
     Charlottetown Gun Club was at home in Mount Albion. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Shooting began in early August and the old 
     
     Remington Skeet Traps, with increasing maintenance 
     
     required, continued to serve well as shooting momentum 
     
     picked up at the new location. A number of new faces 
     
     were showing up to try the sport, and some former 
     
     members were renewing their association. By the time 
     
     the Provincial shoot was held on September 9th, Syd 
     
     Myers; former R.C.M.P. officer Doug George; and 
     
     naturalist Clare Birch had become full-fledged 
     
     members, and lottery tickets on a new Winchester 
     
     Automatic shotgun were being 'flogged' at $1.50 each. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The 1972 Trap and Skeet Championships had only a 
     
     fair entry, compared to recent years, but were limited 
     
     in that clubs other than Charlottetown were not 
     
     represented. Ted Woodruff won the skeet title ina 
     
     shootoff with Bill Morrell after each had chewed up 50 
     
     straight targets, while in the trap event, newcomer 
     
     Clare Birch scored a one target victory over defending 
     
     Champion Harley Ings 46-45. For the first time ina 
     
     provincial event, in fact in any event, the younger 
     
     element in the sport was considered, and a junior 
     
     champion was declared in both trap and skeet. Syd 
     
     Myers' son, Allen, won the skeet, and Warren Doiron, 
     
     son of Lorne, won the trap. Both were initial 
     
     recipients of beautiful silver trophies donated by 
     
     Charlottetown Metal Products for annual junior 
     
    
   
   
    
     competition. 
     
    
   
   
    
     1972, apart from the new facility, would seea 
     
     new skeet procedure go into the rule book...The former 
     
     Option was now law. 'Speed-up' skeet was in, and from 
     
     this time forward doubles would be taken, following 
     
     the singles, from stations one, two, six, and seven. 
     
     It was a good and a progressive year in the history of 
     
     Clay target shooting on Prince Edward Island. 
     
    
   
   
    
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