Routine competitions were being held on a monthly 
     
     basis, and membership participation in them was 
     
     excellent. Apart from "The Hyndman," the big shoots 
     
     were the Club Championships, Provincial, Potato Open 
     
     and a new Atlantic Five-Man Team competition, "The 
     
     Rose Bowl," which was designed to create the Maritime 
     
     inter-club activity that Dunc Morrison visualized back 
     
     in the 1950's. Charlottetown hosted and won the 
     
     initial Rose Bowl competition, for the beautiful 
     
     trophy donated by the Atlantic Trap and Skeet 
     
     Association. The team consisted of George Carson, 
     
     Bill Morrell, Owen MacLean, Harley Ings, and Ron and 
     
     Ronnie Atkinson (six gunners but only the top five 
     
     scores counted). In July the St. Nicholas Club 
     
     initiated a 100 target competition in memory of late 
     
     member J. Harold Arsenault, but limited facilities 
     
     curtailed the entry. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Major competition winners for the year were 
     
     primarily split among the Atkinsons and Bill Morrell 
     
     although George Carson, Glen MacEachern, Harley Ings, 
     
     and newcomer Don Stapleton were always contenders, and 
     
     took home a good share of the silverware. The best 
     
     personal efforts were 17 year old Ronnie Atkinson 
     
     breaking 100 straight skeet targets, becoming only the 
     
     eighth and youngest, Islander in history to accomplish 
     
     it. Bill Morrell had a straight run record of 164 
     
     skeet targets; George Carson held the record for 20 
     
     gauge (111), and yours truly both the 28 gauge (118) 
     
     and .410 (68). 
     
    
   
   
    
     With the heavy volume of shooting "Canadian 
     
     Blackbird" targets were now being purchased direct 
     
     from Searle Industries Limited of Stoney Creek, 
     
     Ontario, in tractor-trailer loads of 1000 cases ata 
     
     time, a far cry from a mere decade before when the 
     
     Club was lucky if it used twenty-five cases a year, 
     
     but a continuing tribute to those four or five 
     
     dedicated enthusiasts who carried the Club through 
     
     those bleak times. In 1979, with Bill Morrell as 
     
     president, the big load of targets was ordered with 
     
     fluorescent tops, giving local trap and skeet shooters 
     
    
   
   
    
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