from the consistency of the game. Gunners now have the option of mounting or dismounting the gun and can expect their targets the instant they're called for.

International and Olympic Skeet competitions have maintained the original rules; and gunners still shoot with the dropped gun and variable release delay. There are those who are advocating a complete return to the basic rules intentions of Davies and Foster. To re-educate the vast majority of skeet shooters who support the North American game, as it currently exists, would be a major turn-around, and whether or not it can be done...only time will tell.

On Prince Edward Island, in the mid 1920's, the return to normal living, following termination of the world conflict, did not include any attempt to re- organize clay bird shooting at anything other than the casual level. The game of trapshooting had never really generated itself in a proper manner, and the new game of skeet would not manifest itself in the Charlottetown area for yet another decade; so, for all intents and purposes, the sport of shooting at clay targets was in limbo. The enthusiastic shooters of the Newstead Gun Club era had dissolved into a busy, mid-life routine that no longer included the habit of Saturday afternoon group enjoyment over the traps. Some had not returned from the battiefields of Europe; others, including Fred Hyndman who had spanned two generations of clay pigeon shooters, had passed away in the normal routine of life. Those who were left continued to enjoy wingshooting, and, on a few rare occasions, to gather and shoot at a few clays, using handtraps. The catalyst, whatever or whoever it might have been, was obviously missing.

The Rifle Association was enjoying an active era at the Kensington range, and the famous bungalow, now totally occupied by the stationary target shooters, was the scene of many exciting Maritime competitions. With the firm establishment of a regulated hunting season, the local fish and game association became a

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