Back in the late 1970s I watched Royce Weddle hit a Zerox copy of a $100.00 dollar bill four out of six times shooting his PPC revolver double action at 100 yards. The shots were a side match and he did it cold and on demand. The other 2 shots were on the 8.5x11 piece of paper just an inch or so away from the bill.A late friend of mine Royce Weddle was a fantastic pistol shooter in his own right once told me that the more you practice...
Just think about the human mechanics of that shot. He has to be able to hold steady enough to put that round on that steel plate at that distance. Deep end of the gene pool there.
Yes and yes. It's a pretty incredible example of optimum trigger press.Of course bullet splash did it.
That's the way all those long range balloon shots of Bob Mundan and Jerry's are made.
But it's still dang good shooting.
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Some basic trig, sure. That doesn't make it any less impressive, IMHO.I would also assume a good bit of prep work to get the holdover even close.
Hitting a 2'x4' steel plate at 1000 yards with a handgun is very impressive. Of course, a hit anywhere on the plate would have caused the balloon to pop. For that matter a hit on the adjacent plate probably would have sent enough splatter flying to pop the balloon. For my money this doesn't take away much at all from the accomplishment.I'll have to say he is a great shooter. No, doubt about that.
But the time he hit the balloon at 200 yards with a 2" .38 J-Frame on "Impossible Shots". He didn't hit the balloon. He hit the large angled steel, and the splatter burst the balloon. So Unless the paint is gone where the balloon sat I'd say it was splatter.
Now if he shot it blowing in the wind off a string then.... I guess anyone could do it if they had enough ammo, and walked it to the where it needed to hit.
I'll have to take THR in response to your comment. I will respond respectfully though. Yes a lot of people could do it, and you probably don't understand video editing. Like not seeing the many shots he missed to make that one shot. If he would have done it two in a row without any stoppage then that would have been something to see.
I like the man, and he is an asset to the shooting community. I give him much respect. Just watch the video with an open mind and the camera angles. Like him dropping the rounds into the cylinder. Then when he shoots the camera is way away from him. To the untrained eye of video editing it seems like it is all happening in sequence when in reality it is edited.
I have zero doubt he hit the steel. Just not in the the length of the video.
Silent stalker there may have been some luck involved just because the gun probably couldn't hit that steel every time at 1,000 yards even on a perfect day. However I want to see you try that shot. Think how much a little flinch or bad trigger control can mess you up at 25 yards. Now if you did that at 1,000 yards you wouldn't even be anywhere near that steel. This is showing how solid Jerry's shooting is that he can even get it close with a dot sight at 1,000 yards. Even his first video-taped shot that missed was still close enough that his spotter could pick ups it's impact.
As to it actually happening if it was anybody else I wouldn't believe it but as has already been said in this thread Jerry is the best shooter alive. He has fired millions of rounds and holds world records for revolver shooting. With his reaction and just him being him I believe he actually did it. However I would like to see this in person.