Steve Rocketto just "Rests his Eyes" for a minute during the 13 hour trip to Bristol, IN
After 12 hours and 40 minutes of total travel time we arrived at the Jamison Inn in Elkhart, Indiana. Earlier we had passed the Route 250 cut off for Camp Perry but forged on to our destination. When we entered Interstate 80 and the GPS read, “Continue on this road for 623 miles” all we could think of was Dante Alighieri’s The Inferno, in which he wrote, “Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch’entrate”-“All Hope Abandon, Ye Who Enter Here”. But knowing there was a rifle match at the end of the trek we began to think more positively. Interstate 80 became Frank Baum’s the road of yellow bricks from the Wizard of Oz and we were on our way to an Emerald City.
Jeff Doerschler and Abby Fong of Digby Hand display the grand aggregate team trophy of the inaugural US Metric 3p Championships. Doerschlerr was first in the any sight agg and second in grand agg. Fong was first in the iron agg and is the indivial Metric National Champion
About Hap Rocketto
Hap Rocketto is a Distinguished Rifleman with service and smallbore rifle, member of The Presidents Hundred, and the National Guard’s Chief’s 50. He is a National Smallbore Record holder, a member of the 1600 Club and the Connecticut Shooters’ Hall Of Fame. He was the 2002 Intermediate Senior Three Position National Smallbore Rifle Champion, the 2012 Senior Three Position National Smallbore Rifle Champion a member of the 2007 and 2012 National Four Position Indoor Championship team, coach and captain of the US Drew Cup Team, and adjutant of the United States 2009 Roberts and 2013 Pershing Teams. Rocketto is very active in coaching juniors. He is, along with his brother Steve, a cofounder of the Corporal Digby Hand Schützenverein. A historian of the shooting sports, his work appears in Shooting Sports USA, the late Precision Shooting Magazine, The Outdoor Message, the American Rifleman, the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s website, and most recently, the apogee of his literary career, pronematch.com.
