What’s in your range bag, Hank Garvey?

Shooting Sports USA sits down with the up-and-coming trap star

Fairfax, Virginia – In the March 2015 issue of Shooting Sports USA, Barb Baird of Women’s Outdoor News sits down with teen phenom Hank Garvey, a 2015 Brownells/NRA Youth Shooting Sports Ambassador member of USA Shooting’s Junior Olympic Team, to find out what he brings to the range.

Hank Garvey has been shooting for half
his life, considering he started at the
age of 8—on a shotgun. Since 2011, he
has been concentrating on International
Double Trap, and it doesn’t look like he’s missed
his target or focus much.

The 16-year-old high school student from
Newburyport, Mass., credits the Scholastic Clay
Target Program, where he won his first national
title last summer and a consequent appointment
to USA Shooting’s Junior Olympic Team, to his
success. In January, Brownells chose Garvey as
one of six representatives for the 2015 Brownells/
National Rifle Association (NRA) Youth Shooting
Sport Ambassador Program.

Garvey loves to hunt, fish and be outdoors
when he’s not shooting competitively or practicing.
He also likes to share the sport of clay shooting
with others, “especially little kids.” To young,
aspiring shooters, he says, “Stay with it, keep
with it and your day will come.”

Garvey shoots a Krieghoff K-80 DTS
(Double Trap Special).

He chooses an Under Amour “USA Shooting”
backpack. Here’s what he packs in it:

• USA Shooting Team vest & towel
• Rain jacket
• Pilla glasses and lenses
• Molded earplugs
• Water bottle and Nuun hydration tablets
• Alkaline powder bag (in case his hands
  get sweaty)
• Hacky sack and deck of cards
  (entertainment in between rounds)
• Earbuds (to listen to music while getting
  in the zone)
• Chapstick and sunscreen
• G. Loomis baseball hat (lucky fishing hat)
• Oakley Sunglasses
• Small first aid kit

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