responsibility to sign the note required to borrow money for the purchase.

With responsibility comes aggression, and almost immediately a new enthusiasm was evident as moving plans dominated conversations, new skeet guns were purchased, and active shooting members sought. In late May a few of the Charlottetown members visited the Pictou County Trap and Skeet Club, in Stellarton, for a Victoria Day competition. The first time that Island moving target gunners had left their province for a competition since the mid '50's, and, although their scores were not creditable, they saw something that offered exciting possibilities for their own new club--auto loading skeet traps with large magazines on top that would carry enough clay targets to doa full squad a complete round--and an auto-angling electric trapshooting facility that totally eliminated the familiar long pipe and manual release lever. Impressed, and realizing the Pictou County traps were throwing targets the legitimate, and required, distance compared to their own old traps, which had become not only weak in the springs, but plagued with constant breakdown and maintenance, they returned home, determined to raise enough money to have traps like these at their gun club. They lost no time in organizing a lottery, and doubling their membership fees to $10.00 annually.

The three-mile move, from the Ings' farm to Mount Albion, was engineered in mid-July, with most members, and some local enthusiasts, participating. One of the locals was Sydney Myers, who had grown up in the vicinity enjoying the bountiful wildfowl shooting at Moss Lake just a few hundred yards southeast of the new grounds. He, like many others, in the area, would take a great new interest in clay targets.

The old farm house on the new property was sold for $150., and removed, as were the other outbuildings, as the former homestead was gradually transformed into an active club operation. The two

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