Men’s JORC Smallbore Day One Recap
New Hampshire’s Tobin Sanctuary sits at tenth over all after the first day of prone competition with a 614.6. His closest New England competition is Connecticut’s J3 Kyle Kutz at 610.7. Jared Desrosiers stands at 32 shooting a 608.3. Nutmeg State shooter Eric Sloan’s 604.1 places him 43rd while 52nd is held by Brandon Bryer, 600.2, from Maine. Marcus Mojica, Rhode Island, rounds out prone competition in 63rd place with a 589.7.
In three position competition Desrosiers posted an 1136 for 14th, just two places and three points ahead of Sanctuary. Sloan sits at 31st with an 1122 and Bryer’s 115 gave him 34th.
With one day left Sanctuary has a good shot, pardon the pun, of moving up into the top eight and shooting in the prone finals.
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.
