Jerry Miculek and His Speed Reloading

[DWFan]

As far as pure speed in emptying a revolver, Jerry Miculek is incredibly fast. Ed McGivern was even faster and more accurate. Bob Munden is another. He can fire his SAA Colts so fast that the human ear cannot distinguish the individual shots.

 

[Sam1911]

I was a Safety Officer on a stage at IDPA Nationals in '08. Jerry shot my stage, and I made sure to be right on his elbow to see just how he did it.

He shot, his hands came together, then he was shooting again. I think I must have blinked or something, 'cause I missed it.

 

[bergmen]

Dan

 

[45crittergitter]

I was actually there that day. The 6 + 6 event was fired (if memory serves) with a S&W Model 625 (Now, there's a 635 JM, for Jerry Miculek) chambered in .45 ACP, and yes he used moon clips. FWIW, it was 108 degrees at the time.

 

[Drail]

I have stood close to him and watched and you cannot believe what you just saw. He actually took the time to show me how he "throws" the clip at the cylinder instead of trying to line up the rounds with chambers. It works. He is a very nice guy and will answer any questions from anyone. I worked at a club in Illinois and Tom Kilhoffer (TK Custom who does moon clip conversions) used to come to our USPSA and steel matches and enter in the semi auto division with a revolver. And beat everybody. I shot against him in a man on man steel match with him shooting a moon clipped revolver and me shooting a 1911. At the end of the match it came down to me vs. him. We had to do two runs to decide the match. He could reload that revolver faster than I could change mags and get to the stop plate first. Every time. I used to think I was pretty quick with a 1911 until that day. It was actually pretty hilarious to watch. The crowd loved it. Revolvers ARE tactical if you know how to work one.

 

[9mmepiphany]

The advantage of the reload isn't how fast they can be performed, it is how many rounds you are loading each time.

I was once at a class where we had a shoot off between all the shooters...the drill was 2 shots on each of 3 targets, reload and repeat (all hits in the "A" zone) The last two guys were a revolver shooter (S&W M-19) and a semi-auto shooter (Beretta 92).

The 92 is a much easier gun to reload than a 1911 (tapered magazine/wider magwell) and the revolver guy was using HKS speedloaders (much slower than moonclips; just about the slowest speedloaders available). Both shooters were practiced and very smooth.

In a 2 out of 3 match, there was no notable speed advantage to the reload of the 92