Photo of the Week

Members of a San Antonio Schützenverein celebrate. The rifle on the left is a Number 5 Remington rolling block and on the right is a Sharps. One can only presume that the glasses are filled with a locally brewed Roggenbier or perhaps a Schwartsbier. (Courtesy of the San Antonio Conservation Society)

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.
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1 Response to Photo of the Week

  1. George Hadley says:

    Hap,
    There were many many local beers in Texas just as in Germany. I wonder if it’s one of my old favorites from the years in Texas: Shriner Beer. We actually went to Shringer, TX to try it out. Like Andy Griffith would say ” Goooooooooooooooooooood”

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