AIMING IS USELESS! 3 Secrets To Great Shooting | Rob Leatham 6x IPSC World Champion!

[Str8up]

This has always been my approach to shooting, especially with DA revolvers, and pistols. In fact, I've taken it to, for me, the next level. I, now, no longer cock the hammer back, first, unless it's a SAO revolver. Because I have a limited budget, and an insatiable desire to try different handguns, I am forced to buy, sell, and trade, except for the chosen few, for different makes and models. Hence, my first exercise is as Rob Leatham explains. You can't build much without a strong foundation.

 

[Panzerschwein]

Who is Rob Leatham?

Should I have heard of this person before?

 

[huntsman]

He’s a dude that shoots really fast.

 

[Walkalong]

and really well.

 

[ATLDave]

Who is Rob Leatham?

Should I have heard of this person before?

Rob Leatham is the Babe Ruth of practical competitive pistol shooting. Much as Babe Ruth completely changed the dominant biomechanical and strategic approach to playing baseball (from the offensive perspective), Leatham and his buddy Brian Enos completely changed the dominant biomechanics of speed shooting with pistols. And, like Babe Ruth, he won just piles and piles of championships, including Bianchi cups, which place a much greater emphasis on shooting small groups than most other practical/speed shooting disciplines.

Most of what is now conventional wisdom about how to shoot well and fast came as a result of his work and performance.

 

[DT Guy]

Who is Rob Leatham?

Should I have heard of this person before?

Assuming you're not kidding, his nickname (given by those he competes against, by the way) is "TGO"-The Great One. Arguably the best, and most articulate, all-around pistol shooter of our time.

Larry

 

[d2wing]

I think he is correct. When I was a shooting instructor, we started students shooting BB pistols to learn basic sight alignment and trigger control. It gave them a foundation for all types of shooting. It worked pretty well.

 

[jmorris]

Not new news, I doubt there are many that have shot competitively that haven’t dry fired. That’s all about making the gun not move.

The things that set most people apart are the things they do in between pulling the trigger. We can all pull the trigger fairly close to the same speeds while there will be an accuracy difference between each of us, look at total times vs points down. Lots of time doing other things than shooting for people.

 

[Kingcreek]

This isn't new. Rob Leatham built my first competition 1911 over 30 years ago and I had a couple opportunities to shoot with him. He was saying the same things then (pre-youtube). H also shoots an incredible volume. Back then he was shooting at least 6000 rounds per month and 1000 of those were tracers at night. Pretty good for muscle memory.

 

[Flechette]

Laser sights really help you to learn how to pull the trigger without moving the gun.

 

[CoalTrain49]

I tried his method a week ago and my groups are already much better at 15 yds. I wish I had read this 5 years ago.

 

[Alaskan Ironworker]

Dry firing with snap caps greatly helped my shooting and flinches. Especially with heavy recoiling firearms like my .375. I used to be a TERRIBLE marksman, now im still not that great, but i attribute all my improvements to dryfiring my rifle at distant objects atleast 5 or 10 “shots” a day. Same with my handguns. You can really get a feel for your trigger that way. Try watching your gun as you dryfire as well and see if it moves, and experiment placing your trigger different places on your finger to see where on your finger affects the gun moving the least. I highly recommend snap caps.