straight targets, and Walter (Wacky) Carver, the Trap 
     
     Championship with a 45. 
     
    
   
   
    
     With all the activity--and new confidence that it 
     
     could be done--there were a number of 25 straights 
     
     registered, and the Secretary was kept busy filling 
     
     out the forms required by Canadian Industries Limited 
     
     in order to obtain the coveted Dominion Marksman 
     
     badge. ‘Canadian Blackbirds' were now being purchased 
     
     from Searle Industries Ltd. of Hamilton, Ontario, and 
     
     the Club was better able to deal with smaller 
     
     quantities. Rogers Hardware Ltd., as it had for 
     
     decades, was supplying the ammunition; the most 
     
     popular target loads were still C.I.L. 'Canuck' paper 
     
     shells in #9 for skeet and # 7 1/2 for trap. C.I.L. 
     
     also continued to supply the scoring sheets for both 
     
    
   
   
    
     games. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A faster version of skeet shooting had been 
     
     discussed for some time and, in 1957, the first 
     
     indications of its acceptance showed up in the annual 
     
     N.S.S.A. rule book in a paragraph that stated "in the 
     
     interest of conserving time the shoot management may 
     
     elect to have shooters fire upon their doubles at 
     
     station 1 immediately following the shooting of 
     
     singles at that post and follow the same procedure at 
     
     stations 2, 6, and 7...". This was not a rule and, 
     
     being a radical departure from the long-established 
     
     traditional pattern, it would be a long time before it 
     
     was accepted at the Charlottetown Club. 
     
    
   
   
    
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