Championships scheduled for the next Labour Day could, with good planning, bring the Club totally out of debt...including the expense of a new set of electric- release traps required to replace those on the 'wire' release field. The new traps were approved and the 1956 executive elected: President, Glydon Willis; Vice-President, Howard Douglas; Secretary/ Treasurer Hugh Simpson; Directors, Dr. Gil Houston, Bob Hyndman, Walter Carver, and Con Gallant. Following elections, Glydon Willis stated the new officers were determined to make the first Maritime Clay Target Championship ever held on Prince Edward Island a record-breaking success, and promised a big effort.

The year 1956 will always be remembered as one of the most active seasons in modern Charlottetown Gun Club history. Perhaps it was because everything was relatively new, or that the membership had tasted the excitement of competition with other clubs. Whatever, the activity cycle was peaking and members were aggressively helpful. The new set of Remington electric-release traps was installed in June, and the old manual units (the same traps that brought skeet shooting to Prince Edward Island twenty years before), were sold to a new group of gunners from the Montague area who had visited the Charlottetown Club on occasion and expressed an interest in introducing skeet shooting to Kings County. The Club was shooting regularly every Monday and Thursday evening, and was averaging over 30 rounds per shoot--which at an approximate profit of 35 cents per round meant the Club was making money. On July 20th the author shot the first 25 straight recorded at trap on the Island, and at the Club Championships a week later, Dr. Gil Houston won the skeet title breaking 47 of 50. Walter Carver, with a 43, won the trap event and his first clay target title--But the big news of 1956 was the Maritime Championships.

The response to the mail-out programme brochure made it the largest Maritime championship event to date. Sixty skeet entries and 39 trap, shooting on Monday, September 3rd, almost completely filled the

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