the new units to throw targets at legitimate speeds, compared to the weakened-spring efforts of the old traps.

In the early summer of 1974 the road was finally paved past the gun club, eliminating the muddy road conditions that, at times in the spring and fall, made access to the shooting grounds almostimpassable. Clay targets were once again being ordered, in quantity, from Searle Industries Ltd., to supply the growing club, which was seeing the return of a number of former members including long time skeet shooter Roy Vessey, as well as those who were joining for the first time--Gordon Babineau, Wylie Barrett, Clifford Doyle, and a young Sherwood shooter, Glen MacEachern.

With membership participation proving the point that skeet was continuing to be the dominating game at the Charlottetown Club, and that a single field was simply not going to serve the demand, there was a move afoot to grow. However, the year was wearing on, the old skeet traps had been dismantled and the manual trap passed on to the St. Nicholas Club. If expansion was to be discussed, it should wait until the busy season was over. A number of non-active individuals had been sold memberships and by late summer the roster list numbered 60. Certainly if growth continued, the additional costs of expansion would not be too big a problem.

Since 1954, in this evolutionary story, we have highlighted and emphasized the Annual Provincial Championships because they, more than any other common factor, were able each year to bring clay target enthusiasts out to compete against each other--no matter how low club activity was at the time. The 1974 event was held in August, and twenty-five skeet entries competed in this first shoot in many years to be registered with the National Skeet Shooting Association. Twenty-two trap entries also shot in the tournament dominated by the Club's longest standing

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