This guy is on a completely different level. He's way faster with that revolver than most of us are with a semi-auto. I marvel at that speed.

The man CANNOT be human!

Bob Munden was pretty amazing too.

As was McGivern in his day. All of them do slightly different “stunts”, so it’s hard to draw a direct comparison, but they’re all amazing. Miculek hasn’t let age slow him as far as I can tell either.

I met Jerry at the NRA show a few years ago, really nice guy who certainly knows his way around a S & W revolver. Munden was mostly a single action guy and along with McGivern were great in their day.

I find Munden to be a little more impressive. The speed he gets - considering what he's doing. Clearing leather, major muscle groups vs trigger pulls only. Granted - the reload is complicated and takes a lot of movement too.

Not that Jerry is slow or bad - I just prefer Bob's work.

If you ever had met Bob in person, you might not be such a fan.

I wasn't commenting on the person - just their shooting.

Not to take anything from Miculek, but McGivern was shooting out of the box, untuned revolvers which I feel would make some difference however slight. And to my knowledge nobody has come close to McGivern's uncanny accuracy on aerial targets. To me that was / is beyond amazing. Jerry certainly seems to have the fastest trigger finger on earth!

I saw Bob Munden shoot back around ‘88 or ‘89. I was 14 and Dad took me to my first gun show in Nashville.
It was a pretty cool day altogether for an aspiring gun nut!

Would have to agree with that, but he was fast.

Never met or saw the man, but I remember a film clip in which he demonstrated his shooting and also spoke. I thought he came across as the most arrogant and conceited SOB I ever heard in English. He sure could shoot, though.

If you're on TV talking about what you do for a living and you don't sound arrogant and 100% hype man - you're unlikely to get back on TV again. I'm not saying that in person/away from obvious "show time" he wasn't - I'm just saying it doesn't shock me if he was, given the context of being on TV as an opportunity to sell the show.

I doubt anyone is faster than this...



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First time I shot in a match with Jerry was outside of Mobile, AL in a monthly IPSC match at Tillman's Corner. A new guy, thin and medium build showed up all by himself, to shoot with us. Quiet and very unassuming. We filled out score cards, turned them face down, mixed them, and drew cards for position "Jerry's" card was drawn first, my card was second, so I was "on deck", right behind him. Did not know him from Adams house cat.

I actually got so fixated watchmen him, that I got into the groove with him, where everything goes into slow motion. That was the last time I ever watched him shoot in a match. From then on, I looked in another direction, If you start watching Jerry in person, it can really screw up your own match prep.

He had drove over from LA because he was one match short for qualifying for the upcoming FIPT, so he qualified and we then shot again in that next FIPT. I had some time to talk to him after the AL match, he used a stock M-27 N frame Smith 4" just the action smoothed, stock springs, hammer and trigger, in a suede cross draw rig. He is quick, like a cat. On a 6 shot course, not many can keep up with hm. On a reload, he does not drop the gun, it stays up, the six ejected shells are still at the right elbow when the cylinder goes closed, he is that fast. He can reload a Smith revolver as fast or faster that a 1911 pro shooter can do a mag change.

Confident is often called arrogant they aren't the same

Gillom Rogers : [Books has just given Gillom a shooting lesson] But how could you get into so many fights and always come out on top? I nearly tied you shooting.

John Bernard Books : Friend, there's nobody up there shooting back at you. It isn't always being fast or even accurate that counts. It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't.

I wasn't calling him "confident".

I did spend time with him. When he wasn't shooting or performing.

One conversation that sticks out was a guy asking about master gunfighter class shooters and asked Bob if he wanted to try his hand at it...

Bob said he'd try that guy outside right now, man to man, but they must use live ammo.

Everyone who heard that just rolled their eyes. That wasn't confidence.

If y'all watched his TV show, that's all well and good. But I reckon he toned himself down a notch or three for that TV show.

Never saw McGivern, saw Munden & Jerry............Jerry may not be the fastest, I dunno, but he's better than anyone else around right now.

And he's also damn good with an AR in his hands too.

And nice guy.

Bought lots bullets from his brother.

MM

I had the privilege of watching Jerry shooting head to head with one of the best IPSC shooters at the time at The American Handgunner's World Shoot-off in Colorado.
He beat Jethro "The Jet" Dionisio with a revolver. Just something you see and never forget.

Also they had side shoots for 22rf. I remember watching everyone loading mags with stuff like Green Tag or Ely and here's Jerry dipping out of a Remington milk carton (remember those?)

That is simply incredible.

He sure shoots faster than he can talk. That’s impressive!

What loads do they run for this type of shooting? Solid projectile CAS type loads or something like snake shot.

It really is. But it is also pretty freeking useless in practical terms.

That's pretty incredible.

I wouldn't mind being really good at something even if it was useless. lol

put the video on slow motion (.25) , very amazing.

Wax bullets for cowboy fast draw action shooting.

He is using black powder blanks. You can tell by the smoke and blast they produce. Wax bullets are used with only primers for propulsion. The unburned powder grains and shredded wadding break balloons at short range just fine, and produce a "pattern" that reduces the need for precise aiming. They use the same type of blanks in Cowboy Mounted Shooting to break balloons.