{"id":34165,"date":"2015-03-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=34165"},"modified":"2015-03-09T08:44:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T13:44:04","slug":"whats-in-your-range-bag-hank-garvey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/whats-in-your-range-bag-hank-garvey\/34165\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in your range bag, Hank Garvey?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Shooting Sports USA sits down with the up-and-coming trap star<\/h1>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: #000000 1px solid;\" title=\"Shooting Sports USA opens up Hank Garvey's range bag\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nrablog.com\/image.axd?picture=2015%2f3%2fhank+garvey.jpg\" alt=\"Shooting Sports USA opens up Hank Garvey's range bag\" width=\"477\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Fairfax, Virginia<\/em> &#8211; In the March 2015 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrapublications.org\/index.php\/shooting-sports-usa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shooting Sports USA<\/a>, Barb Baird of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensoutdoornews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Women&#8217;s Outdoor News<\/a> sits down with teen phenom Hank Garvey, a 2015 Brownells\/NRA Youth Shooting Sports Ambassador member of USA Shooting&#8217;s Junior Olympic Team, to find out what he brings to the range.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hank Garvey has been shooting for half<br \/>\nhis life, considering he started at the<br \/>\nage of 8\u2014on a shotgun. Since 2011, he<br \/>\nhas been concentrating on International<br \/>\nDouble Trap, and it doesn\u2019t look like he\u2019s missed<br \/>\nhis target or focus much.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old high school student from<br \/>\nNewburyport, Mass., credits the Scholastic Clay<br \/>\nTarget Program, where he won his first national<br \/>\ntitle last summer and a consequent appointment<br \/>\nto USA Shooting\u2019s Junior Olympic Team, to his<br \/>\nsuccess. In January, Brownells chose Garvey as<br \/>\none of six representatives for the 2015 Brownells\/<br \/>\nNational Rifle Association (NRA) Youth Shooting<br \/>\nSport Ambassador Program.<\/p>\n<p>Garvey loves to hunt, fish and be outdoors<br \/>\nwhen he\u2019s not shooting competitively or practicing.<br \/>\nHe also likes to share the sport of clay shooting<br \/>\nwith others, \u201cespecially little kids.\u201d To young,<br \/>\naspiring shooters, he says, \u201cStay with it, keep<br \/>\nwith it and your day will come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garvey shoots a\u00a0Krieghoff\u00a0K-80 DTS<br \/>\n(Double Trap Special).<\/p>\n<p>He chooses an Under Amour \u201cUSA Shooting\u201d<br \/>\nbackpack. Here\u2019s what he packs in it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>USA Shooting Team vest &amp; towel<\/li>\n<li>Rain jacket<\/li>\n<li>Pilla\u00a0glasses and lenses<\/li>\n<li>Molded\u00a0earplugs<\/li>\n<li>Water bottle and Nuun hydration tablets<\/li>\n<li>Alkaline powder bag (in case his hands<br \/>\nget sweaty)<\/li>\n<li>Hacky sack and deck of cards<br \/>\n(entertainment in between rounds)<\/li>\n<li>Earbuds (to listen to music while getting<br \/>\nin the zone)<\/li>\n<li>Chapstick\u00a0and sunscreen<\/li>\n<li>G. Loomis baseball hat (lucky fishing hat)<\/li>\n<li>Oakley Sunglasses<\/li>\n<li>Small first aid kit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrablog.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16751 alignnone\" title=\"NRAblogLogo\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NRAblogLogo.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrablog.com\" target=\"_blank\">NRAblog<\/a> is your connection to the programs of the NRA. It is a project of the NRA\u2019s Media Relations Division. <\/em><br \/>\nPUBLISHING:<br \/>\nNRA Executive Director: Kyle Weaver<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONTRIBUTORS:<\/strong><br \/>\nLars Dalseide. E-mail him at LDalseide (AT) nrahq.org.<br \/>\nKyle Jillson. E-mail him at KJillson (AT) nrahq.org.<br \/>\nJustin McDaniel E-mail him at JMcDaniel (AT) nrahq.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shooting Sports USA sits down with the up-and-coming trap star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":34166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,2597,165],"tags":[3544,3543],"class_list":["post-34165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bloggers","category-shootingsports","category-usa-shooting","tag-hank-garvey","tag-shooting-sports-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}