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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