primers $12.00 a thousand and you could still buy a MEC 600 jr. shotshell loader for $79.95 in the U.S.A. Both Bill Morrell and Ted Woodruff became the first Island shooters to chalk up a 100 straight at trap, and it was the year that my personal self-inflicted barrier cracked, after seventeen years--I dusted the old shotgun off and headed for Mount Albion.

My son, Ronnie, Jr., was 15 years old, with little or no shooting experience, when, in mid-July, while leafing through an old scrapbook, he came upon some old clippings relative to 'ancient' shotgun accomplishments twenty years before. He lost no time in asking how come I wasn't still shooting skeet, and why shouldn't he come along when I went this Saturday?? On July 26th we nervously approached the Mount Albion Club for the first time...he, because he heard a shotgun provided quite a kick; and I, because I knew that first shot might revitalize that dreaded bug CLAYPIGEUS- PULLMARKACILLIUS that lurked deep within me. After seventeen years I was delighted with a first-round 21, while son Ronnie, shooting his first clay targets, was not really aware how he had hit 10.

Everyone who was into trap or skeet shooting, on a regular basis, was doing his own reloading. Target costs were $1.50 per round, and trapshooting was down badly due to the increasing popularity of skeet. The provincial shoot, for example, had 40 skeet entries, but only 11 trap, and, of the 3337 rounds shot throughout the year, less than 10 percent were on the trap field. Some of those who were more dedicated to trap became concerned, and blamed the fact that the newest skeet field and the trap layout were on common ground, and immediately set to work building a new concrete trap house a few yards to the left of the Skeet field, closer to the main road. Three new shooters joined the Club during the summer: Eddie MacDonald, Bill Griffin, Jr., and John Griffin.

A full busload of shooters arrived from "Muddy Creek" for the provincial shoot. Actually there were

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