Amazing handgun skill.

[Ferocious]

Just how long would it take an average shooter to empty ten identical six-shot revolvers hitting the target every time? Miculek did it in 17.12 seconds. Many shooters couldn't fire the first six rounds that quickly.

no Barney Fife

 

[Zim Hosein]

He fired over 18,000 rounds in preparing for the recent record attempts.

:Q

 

[dxkj]

that's messed up.


fired 18k rounds in preparation heh.

well lets see....an average of .28 seconds per round.


He could have done that in 1hr 24 minutes

 

[ragazzo]

i know nothing about this type of hobby, so here's a question: do they use blanks for this sort of thing? i would imagine that blanks are cheaper?

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: ragazzo
i know nothing about this type of hobby, so here's a question: do they use blanks for this sort of thing? i would imagine that blanks are cheaper?

Not if he is hitting the target every time.

 

[Ulfwald]

<=== Note to self, do not p!ss this guy off and challenge to pistols at 20 paces.

 

[xxAgentCowxx]

I bet he used hacks.

 

[new2AMD]

I assume what he did is hard to do but I wonder why anyone needs to keep records on it.

 

[StageLeft]

Arthritis has its next victim. Still, some of these guys are insane. I've seen the quick shooters on that show American Shooter (I think). And their bowman expert on there is like a modern day robin hood.

 

[sillymofo]

I know there are lots of pics? or :camera:s? going around, allow me to start a new trend....

:video;s?

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: ragazzo
i know nothing about this type of hobby, so here's a question: do they use blanks for this sort of thing? i would imagine that blanks are cheaper?

Not if he is hitting the target every time.

So on landspeed records, do the cars have wheels?

 

[BennyD]

aimbot!!

shenny's!!

 

[AbsolutDealage]

For the lazy:

Smith & Wesson Representative Miculek Sets Two Modern Shooting Records




SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- At the recent Police Nationals
handgun competition in Jackson, Mississippi, Smith & Wesson Representative
Jerry Miculek set modern day records for firing five rounds from a revolver
into a single target and firing multiple rounds from ten different revolvers
into one target.
Miculek's trigger finger is a bit more brawny than most shooters. His
right index finger has muscles built for shooting. Just how long would it
take an average shooter to empty ten identical six-shot revolvers hitting the
target every time? Miculek did it in 17.12 seconds. Many shooters couldn't
fire the first six rounds that quickly.
He takes great pleasure in setting records for handgun speed shooting.
Miculek also takes practicing for these record attempts very seriously. He
fired over 18,000 rounds in preparing for the recent record attempts.
"Some speed shooting records on the books are quite old," explained
Miculek. "Time keepers of 20, 30 and 40 years ago used fairly inaccurate stop
watches compared to today's technology. I looked at these two widely
different categories and decided to go for new records using extremely
accurate timers."
Miculek chose a Smith & Wesson Performance Center Model 66 K-frame for the
five-shot/one gun record while the six-shots fired from ten different .38
caliber handguns record fell to ten Smith & Wesson Model 64 handguns laid out
neatly across a table.
In the 10-gun event, Miculek fired one gun then proceeded to the next
until all ten guns had fired six bullets each. Miculek's new modern day
record is 17.12 seconds, a blistering .28 seconds per round and 1.71 seconds
per gun, including the time needed to lay one gun down and pick up the next.
The previous record was over 21 seconds, with only five rounds fired from each
gun instead of six.
Miculek's unbelievable skill with a handgun also has earned him world
records for the fastest time shooting eight rounds from one gun into a target,
firing eight rounds into four targets (two shots per target) and a record for
firing six rounds from one gun into a target, then reloading and firing six
more times into the target. Smith & Wesson revolvers were used to set these
phenomenal modern speed records.

 

[fonzinator]

I saw a show once of a guy setting the world record for firing 6 shots (on a single-action revolver), reloading, then firing 6 shots - hitting a target each time. It was absolutely INSANE how fast this guy was!! I think the craziest part was how quick the reload time was. I wonder if it is the same guy?? I'm gonna Google up this record...

 

[Bulk Beef]

Originally posted by: fonzinator
I saw a show once of a guy setting the world record for firing 6 shots (on a single-action revolver), reloading, then firing 6 shots - hitting a target each time. It was absolutely INSANE how fast this guy was!! I think the craziest part was how quick the reload time was. I wonder if it is the same guy?? I'm gonna Google up this record...

I watched him reload in slow motion - it was as if he tossed the rounds into the cylinder - amazing.

 

[fonzinator]

Originally posted by: fonzinator
I saw a show once of a guy setting the world record for firing 6 shots (on a single-action revolver), reloading, then firing 6 shots - hitting a target each time. It was absolutely INSANE how fast this guy was!! I think the craziest part was how quick the reload time was. I wonder if it is the same guy?? I'm gonna Google up this record...

2.99 Seconds!! :Q

WOAH.

From link:
"Miculek of Princeton, La., is considered the fastest pistol shooter in the world. He holds three world-record speed-shooting titles. He has put eight shots in one target in less than one second and can shoot six shots and reload six shots on a target in 2.99 seconds."

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: ragazzo
i know nothing about this type of hobby, so here's a question: do they use blanks for this sort of thing? i would imagine that blanks are cheaper?

Blanks for what? Practicing? No.

Conditioning, honing, and maintenance of skill/technique is often done with .22 LR, which is rather inexpensive in bulk. Firing thousands of full load 9mm, 10mm, .40S&W, .38 Super or .45ACP rounds in the course of a weekend can be very punishing on joints, bones, muscles, tendons and on the central nervous system. When a firearm becomes punishing to fire due to fatigue, it greatly increases the risk of unconscious flinching or wincing and promotes poor technique.

Many of the pros who fire thousands of practice rounds every month will alternate between 22LR and their competition caliber.

One of my instructors did use blind dummy rounds to check for flinching. Its nearly impossible to detect 'flinching' when firing a live round, because the recoil masks it. To test for flinching, your partner would load a dummy round in your magazine at random along with live rounds. Then you fire the gun not knowing where the dummy round is.

So I'm firing the gun; bang, bang, bang, bang, click! Because there is no shot fired (thus no recoil), any movement of the gun after the hammer drops is caused by the shooter's unconscious reaction to what he anticipates is a shot fired. My gun and arms wobbled like someone had just kicked me in the rear. I wasn't alone, everyone in the class failed this test, some worse than others. lol!

Even very experienced shooters will fail this test if they are not periodically evaluating their technique for these kinds of flaws. It becomes totally unconscious to the shooter.