Author Archives: Hap Rocketto

by Hap Rocketto When I first began filling out what seemed like a never ending series of card stock 10 ½ by eight inch DA Form 1344s, the official name of which is “Entry and Score Card for NBRP Individual … Continue reading →

by Hap Rocketto After shooting together for several days at a long ago Interservice the three of us who shared the point sat in the Quantico pits during a lull in the shooting and, for want of a better topic, … Continue reading →

by Hap Rocketto  When Frankie Valli sang out ”Grease is the word…” in the title tune of the eponymously named musical movie I don’t suspect that he was thinking about the triumvirate of rifle lubricants and preservatives so well known … Continue reading →

by Hap Rocketto IT WAS AN INTELLIGENT THING TO DO… The dust covered box had lain in a corner of my basement as untouched as the inner most burial chamber of an Egyptian pharaoh’s pyramid for what seemed like the … Continue reading →

by Hap Rocketto Each year I organize the Precision Shooting Magazine shooting teams during the smallbore prone phase at Camp Perry The match always begins at 12:30 and did again this year, but not before some Marx Brother like antics … Continue reading →

by Hap Rocketto I married into a Rhode Island family that is loaded with male sports fans. Baseball, basketball, football, soccer, golf, hockey, tennis, lacrosse; you name it and their huge plasma TVs blare it forth almost 24 hours a … Continue reading →

by Hap Rocketto When I was a young lad working for my rich Uncle Sam on what seagoing folk called “The Gray Funnel Line”, we were never allowed out of doors with our heads uncovered. The only exception was attendance … Continue reading →

by Hap Rocketto About a year ago, during my annual physical, my doctor had me step on the scale, something we both dreaded. I am a science teacher and I won’t go into the semantics of mass verses weight and … Continue reading →

by Hap Rocketto  Over the past several months I have been engaged in writing a history of the Black Hawk Rifle Club, a 75 year old shooting organization of which I am a member. One of the recurrent themes was … Continue reading →

by Hap Rocketto I am not much of a pistol shooter and I prefer rifle but I have shot a little .45 and that means I have to reload. I am not much of a reloader either and I prefer … Continue reading →

by Hap Rocketto The study of United States history is one of my great pleasures and the more obscure and mysteriously obscure the greater my enjoyment. I revel in the trivial minutiae of our nation’s rich past. For example do … Continue reading →

by Hap Rocketto Their names ring through history with a musical quality reminiscent of a New England college carillon on a crisp fall afternoon. The East India Company, The Hudson Bay Company, and The London Company all formed by bourgeois … Continue reading →