Pronematch.com is happy to announce that German Salazar has accepted an offer he couldn’t refuse. After a meeting with our staff recruiter he demurred, in his humble way, stating that he was not made of the stern stuff the site required in a writer. However, after waking up with a horse’s head at the base of his bed he had a change of heart and has now graciously accepted the post of our far western correspondent, writer, raconteur, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary without portfolio.
German is both a fine marksman and a shooting technogeek who will add a new facet to our coverage of shooting. Salazar is Double Distinguished with service arms, earning his rifle badge with the M-1, as well as an NRA Distinguished Smallbore Prone Rifleman. He is a member of the Presidents Hundred with pistol, NRA rifle 1600 club and the NRA pistol 2600 club, which makes him a rare animal, indeed. A member of the 1998 US Dewar Team he has also a number of regional and state championship titles under his belt.
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.
