Through the first three years of the Eighties the 
     
     Charlottetown Club, under the Presidential leadership 
     
     of Bill Morrell, Doug Wood, and Lou Daley, grew 
     
     steadily with membership totals nearing the 100 mark, 
     
     and the facility itself becoming more functional and 
     
     reliable with the addition of new outhouses, 
     
     regulation shooting stations (paid for by members 
     
     whose names were perpetuated by being etched on them), 
     
     and a new low house and storage facility to replace 
     
     the old one built by the City in 1955...The new one 
     
     built in one day, Good Friday 1982, by a crew of 
     
     members whipped into a construction frenzy by property 
     
     co-chairmen Angus MacEachern and Don Stapleton. The 
     
     old building was given away to a neighbour, leaving 
     
     only the combination house in the middle as a link to 
     
     the activity the Club enjoyed twenty-seven years 
     
     ago...The old house, built by the City for the 
     
     "Centennial" shoot of 1955, is still relatively sound 
     
     and serving the membership. A fifth, and matching, 
     
     Western auto-loading skeet trap was purchased, ‘used,' 
     
     from the Pictou County Club to back up the now ten- 
     
     year-old units. A two-tone, brown and white paint 
     
     job, looking not unlike the old Highfield range of 
     
     thirty years ago, gave the Club a sharp new image. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Clay target shooting continued (except for the 
     
     hunting season break) year-round on Saturday 
     
     afternoons, and, when daylight saving time was in 
     
     effect, on Tuesday evenings. The activity was 
     
     enhanced by weekly newspaper columns noting scores and 
     
     events, and a now four-page monthly edition of 
     
     "Targetdust." With good management, dues had been 
     
     successfully held at $10.00 annually. However, to 
     
     compensate for the increased cost of clay pigeons, 
     
     shooting rates in 1982 were raised to $2.00 per round 
     
     with trapshooting charges 25 cents extra to pay the 
     
     required loader. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In the early 1980's, handloaders everywhere were 
     
     subjected to a world metal market price increase that 
     
     saw lead soar to $30.00 a bag (25 lb.) before it 
     
     returned to a more stable $20.00. Members enjoyed a 
     
    
   
   
    
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