a 50-bird race, went to young Clifford Doyle, witha 48, while the runner-up was Danny Jenkins, son of member Sterling Jenkins. In trapshooting it was the Lewis system used with all three scheduled events. The controversy, combined with the demand on the combination skeet and trap field and the heavy entry, dictated that only the Trap Singles would be shot this day. The Doubles and Handicap events were delayed until September 6th. Teddy Woodruff swept all three events, and combined it with his skeet score to take the high overall, with 275 x 300. Once again it was sharpshooting Warren Doiron who took the Junior Trap title.

Before the year was over the Club championships were held for the first time in a decade with the skeet and trap titles going to Walter Carver and newcomer Bob Cullen from Montague. Veteran skeet shooter George Carson realized his first 100 straight targets, and Teddy Woodruff would be honored by Sport P.E.I. by being nominated one of three finalists in their "Senior Male Athlete of The Year' category.

Winter shooting was not as popular as summer, but it kept the Club open and operational, and a few of the really dedicated nimrods always seemed to find their way to Mount Albion every Saturday to chase the clays.

Skeet guns had undergone somewhat of an evolution, and the most visible firearms at the Club in 1976 established a pattern that would be followed for a number of years to come. There were Berettas, Baikals, Brownings, etc. but the most popular guns with the newer shooters were the Remington Model 1100 and Winchester Super X semi-automatics, and most of these owners would upgrade, after a year or two, to one of the expensive, but enduring, over/unders of which*the Winchester Model 101 was by far the most popular. Most shooters need little reason to change a shotgun but moving to an expensive model requires some justification and the most common reasons given were the fact that rules at all registered major shooting

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