only eleven gunners, but, by the time you added guns, 
     
     ammunition, wives, children and barbecues, it was a 
     
     busload. Their best skeet shooter of the day was 
     
     Louis Gallant whose 93 was five targets behind Ted 
     
     Woodruff's championship score. Bill Morrell's 89 was 
     
     the top registered at trap, and in the junior contests 
     
     the skeet title went back to St. Nicholas with young 
     
     Terry Gaudet, while the trap stayed in Charlottetown 
     
     with John Griffin. For the third year in a row the 
     
     provincial shoot was classified on the Lewis System, 
     
     which really does not reward the competitor who shoots 
     
     well, rather the one who is in the right spot on the 
     
     overall list. It was a poor way to run an Island 
     
     championship, and, some way or other, it would have to 
     
     change. Two final notes on the 1977 shoot are that 
     
     Miss Betty Weeks, Derrick Egan's girlfriend, to our 
     
     knowledge became the first lady to ever compete in an 
     
     Island championship event, and, unknown at the time, 
     
     Harold Arsenault, Summerside Gun dealer and longtime 
     
     clay target shooter had participated in his last 
     
     competition--he would shortly become the victim of a 
     
     tragic murder. 
     
    
   
   
    
     On October lst, the last day of shooting, Ronnie 
     
     Atkinson Jr. shot his first 25 straight at skeet after 
     
     shooting for only two months and, at the Boxing Day 
     
     event on December 26th, went 50 straight to win the 
     
     event and became the youngest Island gunner to ever 
     
     win a senior event--a matter of great embarrassment to 
     
     his father who was making his own comeback finishing 
     
     one target behind. 
     
    
   
   
    
     On January 25th, in Summerside, a demented 
     
     individual entered Harold Arsenault's gun store on 
     
     Duke Street and, following a brief argument, fatally 
     
     wounded him with a 12 gauge shotgun. The motive was 
     
     determined to be robbery, and the object rumored to be 
     
     an ice cream cone. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Five days later, on January 30th, the annual 
     
    
   
   
    
     meeting of the Charlottetown Club was held at the 
     
     Kinsmen Centre on Queen Street and the new executive 
     
    
   
   
    
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