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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