A shooters, won the skeet event breaking 444 of 500 targets. The same team also won the five-man trap championship held the same day. Due to the lack of interest shown, the idea was considered a failure and was not tried again.

The Maritime Championships were once again held at the Halifax Club on Labour Day and, although the merchandise prizes were good and a relatively large entry was expected, there were no Charlottetown gun- ners in attendance...everyone seemed to have a different excuse! Mine was that I was in the middle of building a new home and the $17.00 per event entry fee (including ammunition) was no contest when the Choice was shooting or having another three rooms in the house painted.

The Charlottetown Gun Club shot more total rounds in the 1957 trap and skeet season than any other year in its history, but the spark that had moved the Club ahead for the past five years was flickering. There were no more real challenges, no more net membership gains, and no more real seasons to spend those extra hours at the Club improving this or that. Charlottetown simply had one of the best skeet layouts in the Maritimes, a good trap field, and, as the annual meeting revealed, a note to be burned...The facilities were completely paid for. The Club execu- tive was returned to office 'en masse’ for 1958, which was another indication of the apathy that prevailed. It is a well known fact that organizations are subject to running in cycles, whether it be a major sports dynasty or a village women's institute, and the length of the peaks and valleys of these cycles is totally dependent on those in charge. It takes extra effort to maintain the peaks, or get out of the valleys, and the Charlottetown Gun Club failed to realize that organizations never stand still...they are going either forward or backward, and not enough effort was being made to stop the beginnings of an inevitable slide.

In May of 1958 the Gun Club started up as usual,

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