RTFM
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Let me first say what a great day Saturday July 22, 2006. A local (regional) sportsman’s store Sportsman Warehouse had a manufactures day at our local range.
All of the manufactures reps of the lines they carry were there, S&W, Ruger, Thompson, Barrett, Springfield Armory, Glock, Sig, Winchester, Remington, Baretta, Kimber and Taurus.
I know I’m forgetting a few, sorry.
Tetra was there as well giving and performing gun cleaning seminars, allowing owners to bring in their stubborn guns and they would hold seminars on real dirty guns, looked like good stuff, especially using real world cases for the classes.
The fun part of the day was shooting (isn’t it always the fun part…) what the manufacturers provided were their weapons from black powder all the way up to full auto in all calibers and barrel sizes.
So if you were in the market for a new firearm, they were all there to try and compare. You could bring your own ammo, or they sold ammo there (by the box or the single round (at a slightly inflated price, but not too far off in store retail)) and Dairy Queen made a killing with their tow away gut truck – blizzards, water, burgers….. All in the 106deg F Idaho desert! mmmmm
I was looking for a sub-compact 3” for a carry on a motorcycle, and was able to shoot the Glock, Springfield Armory, Taurus. As long as you had ammo you could shoot with a factory rep.
I think because of the heat attendance was down, although for the 5 hours I was there, attendance was approx 150+ constant people milling about, but lines were short, and company was good.
Now on to the GREAT part of the day. For Springfield Armory Rob Leatham was one of the three people attending the companies booth and giving pointers and assistance where needed to the Springfield pistol shooters.
Yup ROB L. was free for the taking so to speak. While coming back to the Springfield booth for my 2nd go round on the XD 3” they halted the firing line for Rob to do a 30+ min show for the attendees, and because I was inside the red tape, live fire area when they called a cease fire, I was allowed to stay and watch up close and personal.
I was no more than 6’ from Rob for the whole display, catching his brass in the chest and feet. Grinning like the Cheshire cat. After the show people went back about their business. No one wanted to shoot the Springfield pistols so I had Rob to my self, personal attention on trigger control, magazine changes and shot placement from none other than Rob Latham.
I’m just flabbergasted. Sure people would come shoot a few rounds, the reps and Rob would talk a little, but they would leave and we would pick up where we left off. Rob, Mark, James (the Springfield reps) and I shot and talked shop for 3 ½ solid hours.
He is a truly nice individual, and a great ambassador to our sport. Rob signed a few of his targets for me and he thanked us as shooters for coming out.
I’ll try to post my pictures (only had my 700k cell phone to snap with…) when I get them off loaded and online.
RTFM
Edit for spelling Rob's name wrong... Bad me... BAAAAAAD ME :banghead:
All of the manufactures reps of the lines they carry were there, S&W, Ruger, Thompson, Barrett, Springfield Armory, Glock, Sig, Winchester, Remington, Baretta, Kimber and Taurus.
I know I’m forgetting a few, sorry.
Tetra was there as well giving and performing gun cleaning seminars, allowing owners to bring in their stubborn guns and they would hold seminars on real dirty guns, looked like good stuff, especially using real world cases for the classes.
The fun part of the day was shooting (isn’t it always the fun part…) what the manufacturers provided were their weapons from black powder all the way up to full auto in all calibers and barrel sizes.
So if you were in the market for a new firearm, they were all there to try and compare. You could bring your own ammo, or they sold ammo there (by the box or the single round (at a slightly inflated price, but not too far off in store retail)) and Dairy Queen made a killing with their tow away gut truck – blizzards, water, burgers….. All in the 106deg F Idaho desert! mmmmm
I was looking for a sub-compact 3” for a carry on a motorcycle, and was able to shoot the Glock, Springfield Armory, Taurus. As long as you had ammo you could shoot with a factory rep.
I think because of the heat attendance was down, although for the 5 hours I was there, attendance was approx 150+ constant people milling about, but lines were short, and company was good.
Now on to the GREAT part of the day. For Springfield Armory Rob Leatham was one of the three people attending the companies booth and giving pointers and assistance where needed to the Springfield pistol shooters.
Yup ROB L. was free for the taking so to speak. While coming back to the Springfield booth for my 2nd go round on the XD 3” they halted the firing line for Rob to do a 30+ min show for the attendees, and because I was inside the red tape, live fire area when they called a cease fire, I was allowed to stay and watch up close and personal.
I was no more than 6’ from Rob for the whole display, catching his brass in the chest and feet. Grinning like the Cheshire cat. After the show people went back about their business. No one wanted to shoot the Springfield pistols so I had Rob to my self, personal attention on trigger control, magazine changes and shot placement from none other than Rob Latham.
I’m just flabbergasted. Sure people would come shoot a few rounds, the reps and Rob would talk a little, but they would leave and we would pick up where we left off. Rob, Mark, James (the Springfield reps) and I shot and talked shop for 3 ½ solid hours.
He is a truly nice individual, and a great ambassador to our sport. Rob signed a few of his targets for me and he thanked us as shooters for coming out.
I’ll try to post my pictures (only had my 700k cell phone to snap with…) when I get them off loaded and online.
RTFM
Edit for spelling Rob's name wrong... Bad me... BAAAAAAD ME :banghead: