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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