With Camp Perry only a few weeks away, we’re focusing our Photos-of-the-Week on Camp Perry images.
This week’s photo features a young Emily Caruso and her coach Patti Clark of the Stratford Connecticut Police Athletic Rifle Club. They look off into the future which, unknown to them, will bring All American status, National Championships, and membership on several US Olympic Teams for world class shooter Caruso and a fruitful coaching career and long term on the NRA Board of Directors for Clark. Photo by Steve Rocketto
Each Friday we publish a shooting related photograph we find interesting, amusing, compelling, or maybe a combination of all three. Some photos are old, some are new, but all of them tell story.
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.
