Rob Leatham’s Official Shooting Blog

Watch this video interview, conducted by the National Association of Gun Rights (NAGR) Executive Director, Dudley Brown.  Mr. Brown asks Rob about Springfield’s new XDM 3.8, as well as infringements upon our Second Amendment! 
 

Rob recently returned from the United States Army Marksmanship Unit (AMU) Junior Shooter Camp.  This is Rob’s second year in attendance, and each year, he comes home with a smile on his face, honored that he had been invited, and anticipating next year’s event.

Rob was tasked with entertaining the parents.  He held two pistol classes [...]

Rob is headed to the USPSA National Handgun Championships in Las Vegas, Nevada.  I just want to quickly wish him luck. This is the event he works most diligently on, the one that is the most important to him.  It’s an extremely taxing week, though, when the Nationals are back-to-back like this.  All I have to offer is, [...]

Fellow Shooters, Fellow Americans, 
Wanted to wish you a great 4th of July weekend. 
Have fun, be safe, and send a prayer out to all of our troops!  God bless them and our great country! 
Rob

Hello fellow shooters,
Those of you who attended the 2009 Springfield Armory / USPSA Single Stack Nationals at PASA Park earlier this year already know about young Adam Carter and his fight against cancer.  For those of you who didn’t attend, Adam is an 11-year old boy who was recently diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma, a rare [...]

I just wanted to write a quick blurb about Springfield Armory winning the American Rifleman “Handgun of the Year” award for their new XD(M) pistol.  The XD(M) is a great all-around gun for everyone from beginners to top-level shooters, and rightly deserves this award. 
You can find more info about the XD(M) on Springfield’s site, or [...]

Just saw the results from the Desert Classic this weekend and want to congratulate all the winners, especially the locals that I shoot with regularly.  It appears Mike “the fightin’ china-man” Lin won the greatest class of all, Single Stack, and the Albanian pizza slinger, Nick Saiti, won Open.  Outstanding job, guys!  I single these two out because I [...]

World Shoot XV in Bali is over!  Team USA won gold medals in: Open, Open Lady, Open Junior, Standard, Production, and Modified.
They also won a bronze medal in Standard Senior.
Individual gold medal winners are: Travis Tomasie for Standard, Athena Lee for Open Lady, KC Esubio for Junior, and JoJo Vidanes for Modified.
Congratulations to all of [...]