The Next Generation

The Next Generation

- Rob Curtis

We’d like to thank Robby and Hattie Johnson for lending us their daughter, 11-year-old Jenavee, for the cover of our Next Generation-themed issue.

When we decided on the next-gen theme for the first RECOIL of 2017, we wanted it to be a tribute to the people most important to us all — those who’ll pick up where we leave off.

We spent weeks searching for the right cover model when a friend of the magazine suggested Jenavee. We’d come to find out she was born and raised by a couple of true American shooters.

Hattie Johnson learned to shoot with her father and began competing at age 11, qualifying for the Junior Olympics in her first year of competition. Laser focused on becoming an Olympian, she hit the range four days a week, and on nights too cold to shoot, you’d find her in the family basement with an airgun.