Heckling the other shooting competitors. Heckling your team mates. Yep. We're talking all that with Rob Latham.

Wait, are we ready now? No, not yet. How about now? How are we doing now? We're good. All right,

welcome into gun talk nation. Gun talk nation. This gun talk nation is brought to you by Pyramid,

the air gun mall, and also ATN optics, the future of optics. So Rob Latham's here. Welcome in,

man. Thank you for having me. So what did talk about competitive shooting? Competitive.

So you, that's your background. That's your world competitive shooting. And I've only kind of

dabbled with a few events and stuff like that. But it's one of the things that we were just

looking at some old tapes. Yeah, 95 bringing back some old old memories. It's memories.

They're not good ones. We've been going through these old VHS tapes and we've been posting them on

our on our video sites, our YouTube page and guntalk.com and stuff of these these events from the 80s and

90s that actually had some pretty good purses, some pretty good winnings and we're on ESPN and

sponsored by Chevy trucks. Shooting events, everybody. Okay. Yeah, it was it was it was a magic

time for you. I remember with the practical shooting world really kind of went mainstream in the

late 70s, early 80s with you know, Ipsick shooting, which grew into you know, USPSA became the United

States region. There was the masters. There was the Bianchi they still have and the Chevy the Chevy

team truck or Chevy truck team challenge team challenge. The thing that was cool about that

was these women we didn't use in any of the other matches. So for some of us, it was like

it's used to get more guns. So now I got some you know, $2,000 Ruger 1022s. I think we can all get

on board with that. We're all on board. You know, if you you want a new gun, make a match for

it and we're there. And it was it was $2,000 in the early 90s. Yeah, that was a big money back then,

you know, because I think a 1022 cost the base gun, you know, all you wanted was the receiver out of it

was $130, right? You know, so everything else away would just need the receiver and you put

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