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Author Archives: Hap Rocketto
Jebediah Nightlinger On The Veracity Of Hap’s Corners
From time to time I am asked about the sources and, in particular, the veracity of the many anecdotes, incidents, and occurrences that form the basis for Hap’s Corners. In my half century of competitive shooting I have met a … Continue reading
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Generally Speaking He was the Worst
by Hap Rocketto The young lieutenant was at his first posting. Fresh from West Point he firmly believed that troop training ranked as his priority. Being well trained and spruce was the hallmark of a professional soldier and professionalism mattered. … Continue reading
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I love the discipline of sitting…
by Hap Rocketto “There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the … Continue reading
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Bristol Conv 3P Metallic Results
The National Smallbore Rifle Outdoor Conventional Three Position Championship Day One – The Metallic Sight Championship by Hap Rocketto The first day of the National Smallbore Rifle Outdoor Conventional Three Position Championship easily reminded of one of the penultimate scene … Continue reading
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Bristol Metric 3P Any Sights Results
2014-bristol-metric-3p-any-agg (PDF, 356 KB) The National Smallbore Rifle Outdoor Metric Three Position Championship–Day Two The Metric Metallic Sight and Grand Championship by Hap Rocketto As the competitors prepped their equipment and marked targets for any sights there was heard a low … Continue reading
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2014 National Smallbore Outdoor Championships
The 2014 National Smallbore Outdoor Championships by Hap Rocketto DISCLAIMERS: This report is based upon preliminary scores and challenge periods may still be open so and the results are believed to be accurate. However, they might change if disgruntled competitors … Continue reading
Shooting at a Mark: An American Tradition
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
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The Bristol National Smallbore Rifle Championships-One Shooter’s Perspective
The Bristol National Smallbore Rifle Championships- One Shooter’s Perspective by Hap Rocketto Being a New Englander one can never be far from some of the nation’s greatest philosophers and writers. Not only because Bay State author John Cheever once proclaimed that … Continue reading
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In Memoriam: Charles A. Adams
Connecticut rifleman and high school coach Charles A. Adams, 69, of East Haddam, passed away on May 18, 2014. He was born August 18th 1944 in Norwich. He graduated from the Norwich Free Academy in 1962. After earning a bachelor’s degree … Continue reading
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Target, not just a department store…
by Hap Rocketto From time to time I wonder what course my shooting career might have taken if I were born a few years later. When I began shooting the Army Marksmanship Unit was just five years old and only … Continue reading
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RI: Metric 3P Results
A gem of a New England spring day saw 20 competitors battle it out… Continue reading
A Juxtaposition of Passions
by Hap Rocketto After my bride and two daughters my passions are shooting, and then, in no particular order, aviation and baseball. The America’s Cup used to be up there but since the grand days of the statuesque J Boats … Continue reading
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A Rocketto Shooting Aphorism
“My biggest worry is that when I am dead my wife will sell my shooting gear for what I said I paid for it.” Rocketto’s Shooting Aphorisms—A lifetime of shooting experience wrapped up in a series of concise statements containing … Continue reading
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Wind: Another Four Letter Word
by Hap Rocketto I don’t play golf but it seems to me that it is a game that, in many respects, is very much like shooting. They both have long history filled tradition, are practiced on similar outdoor venues, have … Continue reading
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Shooting at a Mark: An American Tradition
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
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AZ: 55th Western Wildcats Results
The 55th Western Wildcats 6400 by Hap Rocketto The Western Wildcats Rifle Club’s 55th Annual Smallbore Prone 6400 Championship, considered to be one of the nation’s premier 6400s, was contested over a four days from March 20-23, 2014 at the Ben … Continue reading
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You can stumble or you can soar, it is up to you…
by Hap Rocketto It has happened to all of us. Some unforeseen event occurs at a match that causes us to either meet the dark angels of our shooting soul or presents a stumbling block over which we soar. For … Continue reading
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In Memoriam: Bill Krilling
Fellow Black Hawk William E. (“Bill”) Krilling passed away on February 22, 2014, after a life that was long and well lived in service to his nation and the sport of shooting. The man most of us knew as a … Continue reading
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Number 42…
by Hap Rocketto The summer of 2013 was marked by a quartet of worthy athletic feats. The Boston Red Sox rebounded from a terrible 2012 season in spectacular fashion by going from worst to first in American League East. Oracle, … Continue reading
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The NRA Bursts My Balloon
by Hap Rocketto As a kid, back in the early 1950s, one of my big thrills was watching the US Navy’s K-class blimps glide over New London while on antisubmarine patrol between Naval Air Station Lakehurst in New Jersey and … Continue reading
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The Black Hawk Bagel Boys
Competitive shooting, and all of the minutiae that goes with it, has a long… Continue reading
