of crows, decided the winners. The competition lasted 
     
     for three years before it phased out. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The 1976 summer games competition was held on 
     
     August 28th, and this time it was not even a contest 
     
     as most of the top shooters in the Club resided in 
     
     Queen's County, and Glen MacEachern, Bill Morrell, 
     
     Harley Ings, Walter Carver and Ted Woodruff teamed 
     
     together to score 464 x 500 targets (92.8%), and take 
     
     the gold medal without a threat. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The last week in September the Club shut down for 
     
     the hunting season, responding to pressure from local 
     
     residents to protect their hunting grounds in the area 
     
     of the gun club. At year end a reflective look back 
     
     showed that smooth shooting Glennie MacEachern (who, 
     
     incidentally, is one of the best natural shotgunners 
     
     this writer has watched) had registered the best 
     
     competition score of the year (98 x 100) to win the 
     
     1976 club championship; consultant Don Milligan, farm 
     
     equipment dealer Allan Ford, and Maritime Electric 
     
     lineman Roger Giddings joined the club; Harvey Jay 
     
     proved he was capable of everything from shooting a 
     
     100 straight to opening the bore of a shotgun by 
     
     hacksawing the muzzel off; and longtime clay target 
     
     shooter, past provincial trapshooting champion and 
     
     Club past president, Dr. Gilbert Houston, passed away 
     
     on December 17th. 
     
    
   
   
    
     1976 ended on a sad note, and the new year began 
     
     the same way with the death, on January 30th, of third 
     
     generation clay target shooter Bob Hyndman. It is 
     
     rather ironic that these two lifelong shooting 
     
     friends, who travelled and gunned together for so many 
     
     years, would pass away within a month of each other. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Don Milligan and Allan Ford, both short term 
     
     members, were elected to the Club's highest offices as 
     
     President and Vice-President, with Harley Ings as 
     
     Secretary and Bill Morrell, Treasurer. It would be a 
     
     year similar in activity to 1976. Shot was selling 
     
     for $12.95 a 25 lb. bag, powder $5.00 1b., wads and 
     
    
   
   
    
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