The Brothers Rocketto
The clock had barely finished striking four. The stygian darkness was broken by two shafts of light as the front doors of the loaded van snapped open and two men slid into the front seats and clipped on their seat belts.
The taller of the two broke the predawn silence with a staccato, “It’s 812 miles to Bristol, we got a full tank of gas, half a case of Eley, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.
His features dimly illuminated by the glow of the screen of the GPS the short man simply ordered, “Hit it.”
And with those two words pronematch.com’s answer to Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues, Hap and Steve Rocketto, departed this morning. Their 12 day Odyssey through the Midwest to take in the Inaugural NRA National Metric Smallbore Rifle Championships, the Road to Perry 3200, and NRA National Smallbore Rifle Championships will be highlighted by daily reports until they meet up with the rest of the pronematch staff at Perry on Friday. At that time the reports will be combined.
The intrepid duo, ‘On a mission from God’ as it were, will be grinding out a ten day 1,120 record shot belly shooting marathon with just two days off for travel. The Red Sox’s west Coast road trips are not as daunting as this ballistic tour de force.
We can only hope that it ends better for them than it did for the original Blues Brothers.
Let me know if you see the penguin when you’re on tour!