How fast can you shoot and reload a revolver?

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That's Jerry Miculek. Pretty cool, huh? He's a Smith and Wesson shooter. They have him on the Outdoor Channel on Wednesdays pretty regularly. He was on the show Impossible Shots this week. Showed him using a .22lr 617 6" revolver with a red dot and shooting balloons double action holding the revolver upside down at 230 yards.

He's an old fellow, but I'd sure hate to get into an old west shootout with him. I thought I was fast until I saw him.
 
It is pretty cool. I honestly thought it just wasn't possible. I had to watch that several times because I was surprised.

Bob Mundane, Now he is also one heck of a shot. Either of the 2, I feel sorry for anyone getting in their way.
 
Josh45, you mean Bob Munden. A few differences in their shooting; Miculek shoots double action, Munden is a single-action shooter and is still faster. Munden's shots are so close together that the human ear can't separate them. Oh, and Miculek doesn't use full power ammo in his demonstrations. Miculek is also very talented when it comes to long-guns as well. On Sons of Guns, he emptied a 10-round mag in a semi-auto AK-47 nearly as fast as a full-auto AK.
I'd shoot myself before facing either of them in a gunfight.
 
munden and miculek are just freaks of nature. very good shooters no way around it.mite have sumpin to do with the millions of rounds they have sent downrange also but i think that their trigger fingers are just hot wired to their brain.
 
DWFan,

Dually noted on the kill self part before fighting with them and the fact that they can unload just as fast as an auto is just not right. Well...You know what I mean.
 
Not trying to take anything away from JM, but it's always seemed to me to be 11 (not 12) shots in under 3 seconds: The time for 12 would've simply be read off the par timer, but that they used a calculator tells me they timed it from the 1st shot, not the beep. The first shot, then, is T-zero, so only 11 are timed.

It's always seemed strange to me that, for as long as that vid's been around, it's still claimed & understood to be 12. Gotta wonder, too, if it was really 7, rather than 8 shots in 1 second.

Either way, it's still a very nice piece of shooting.
 
count me in with Jonah
if the first 5 or 6 don't get it done, I am a dead man
(for that matter if the 1st two don't hit home, I may not be around to tell the tale anyway)

but I sure love to watch those M&M guys burn 'em

PS
I subscribe to MrB's u-tube as well, great stuff
 
I could not rival either of these gentlemen, by a mile, but I was the fastest at speed loading in my police academy class back in 1983-'84. To be clear, it is an idiot-savant thing; I am a klutz, by nature, just a better-than-average sixgunner, and a quite good speed-loader, or was, back then, anyway.

Just so y'all know, JM is not using a speedloader in that footage, but full-moon clips.
 
Rexter,

Thanks for clearing that up because I just could not understand how he reloaded so quickly. I thought he used a speed loader but never saw it. Heck, I never saw him dumb the fired rounds either!
 
I thought he used a speed loader but never saw it. Heck, I never saw him dumb the fired rounds either!
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It doesn't much matter. He's just as fast shooting with spring-loaded speedloaders as well.

Here's another current thread about him: http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=606138

I just did some calculations and at the 2008 IDPA Nationals where I saw him shoot, he beat all but nine competitors -- in all categories. So his times with a revolver were faster than over 97% of the other shooters -- shooting autos OR wheelguns.
 
Munden and Miculek together would be scary, but add Ed Mcgivern to those two (if you could...Mcgivern passed in 1957) and you'd have one unbelievable trio in a firefight. Mcgivern is still considered by some to be the fastest of the three.
 
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Most amazingly, the record Miculek hasn't beat is Ed McGivern's 1932 record of 5 shots into 1.25" at 15 feet in .40 to .45 sec.

McGivern's buddy was Elmer Keith.

Not sure you could do that with a modern automatic. Glock thinks you are proficient at 5 shots/sec.
 
"...That's Jerry Miculek..." Yep, and a very class act he is too. Buddy of mine beat him in a Man-on-Man at Second Chance, long ago. Jerry had his hand out in congratulations before my buddy realized he had won.
"...never saw him dump the fired rounds..." He fast. He thumps the ejector with his left thumb while getting the speed loader with his right. You get issued two hands for a reason. snicker.
"...Munden and Miculek..." Two very different shooting styles. Munden is most SAA's as I recall. Miculek uses a stock S&W 28, I think. Or did.
 
the timeing issue metioned above is because he was attempting to beat the McGivvern record. There were no pact timers in the 30's the timing devices of the day started with the first round fired. Fast & Fancy Revolver Shooting is worth a read
 
Miculek's wife is a Natl. Champion shooter herself, and she's the daughter of legendary bullseye shooter and gunsmith....the late Jim Clark, founder of Clark Custom Guns.
 
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