series of evening "coffee talks" through the winter of 1982, with subjects ranging from shooting procedures to gun teardowns. They also attended annual banquets in ever-increasing numbers, giving testimony to their interest in the game. More members, too, were joining the optional National Skeet Shooting Association and earning a shooting classification, to the extent that Island gunners qualified for a National director, (filled with the election of Harley Ings), and offered to Atlantic competitions a number of trained and qualified N.S.S.A. referees.

Many new members had come to the Charlottetown Club through the pro-am shooting competition and others through publicity and the natural clay target enthusiasm in evidence. As always, many of the memberships would not last, while others, like Dr. Ralph Kennedy and his son David; lawyer Douglas Ross; Edwin Jewell; Bruce MacDonald; Mark MacLeod; Harold McInnis; Dan Thompson; Kevin Ross; farm operators Barry Doyle, his brother Kevin, and David Wood; Biologist Randy Dibblee and his wife Dorothy; Fisheries Officer Brian Lewis; social worker Mike Lyriotokis; and juniors Bill Sinnott, Robbie Roy and Danny Mosher would all become established and talented clay target shooters. 1982 would also see the return to skeet shooting of the Club's honorary president, Ollie Harper, now nearing 80, who would make every effort to avoid missing a week's outing or club event, and the continued participation of the Club's old friend from New Glasgow, Lloyd Mattinson.

If there is anything that has the capability of creating a lifelong bond between a parent and child it is evident in gun sports, and in particular trap and skeet shooting. These, more than any other games available, are something that fathers and sons, or mothers and daughters, can enjoy without the age differential being a factor...there are no squad discrepancies and no demanding reasons to be witha particular age group, just a common sport to which each can devote his, or her, own type of enthusiasm,

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