I first heard about "Mikalik" at the range from these old codgers that shoot .45 acp wheelguns. Here you can meet the fastest revolver shooter in the world, Jerry Miculek:

http://www.clarkcustomguns.com/videos.htm

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Jerry Miculek

Jerry Miculek is one of the nicest people in the gun industry. So nice that he doesn't bother to correct people who mispronounce his name, because he doesn't want to hurt their feelings. For years, I introduced him to people with the pronunciation almost everyone in the business uses: "MIK-a-lik." I found out by accident that the pronunciation is supposed to be "MISH-you-lak."

Jerry is the "ragin' Cajun" who came up out of the bayous of Louisiana to the bowling pin tables at Rich Davis' Second Chance Shoot and taught all the auto shooters a thing or two about "obsolete" revolvers. Jerry's trademark sixgun was an 8 3/8 inch barreled Smith & Wesson.

He started with the K-38 in that length, but quickly discovered that his pin-loads -- 230 grain .38 wadcutters at velocities that probably made Smith & Wesson engineers wake up screaming in the middle of the night -- just shook the .38-frame revolvers loose too soon. He went to the 8 3/8 inch heavy-framed Model 27 .357 Magnum, and with that gun he set every record there was at Second Chance.

One memorable year, he went home with something like 15 guns won in 15 separate events at that fabulous carnival midway of fun shooting games. At the last year of Second Chance, 1998, he showed up with a brace of the newest S&W Performance Center guns, Model 627s with eight-round .357 cylinders. These long-tom .357s were what he used against the autos.

The Need For Speed

In the revolver-only event, he set the records too, but here he used a Model 625 with moon clips and ball ammo for the mandatory reload. He could react to the start signal, bring up the 625,blast six bowling pins off the table, reload, and take two more in under six seconds.

If it was his skills in blasting bowling pins that made him known to competitive handgunners, it was his performance on TV that made his name a household word among gun enthusiasts who don't shoot the matches. He set two records. Eight shots (and eight hits) in one second flat with .38 Special rounds out of a 627 ... and his sub-three-second 12 shot revolver string.

Countless millions have sat glued to their televisions as Jerry fired six rounds, reloaded with a moon clip of round-nose .45 ACP, and fired six more -- all hitting the target -- in 2.99 seconds, including reaction time to the start signal.

The gun he used for the latter feat was a Smith & Wesson Model 625 in .45 ACP.

Along the way, Jerry had married Jim Clark, Sr.'s daughter, Kay. Talk about continuing heritage. As with his father-in-law before him, Jerry was consulted by Smith & Wesson as to how their .45 ACP sixguns could be made better. Thus was born the gun the people at S&W's Performance Center call the Miculek revolver.


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Jerry is a crock and a fake, he can’t do anything anyone else could do with a year of training and million dollar sponsors. If he is so great why doesn’t he answer Bob Munden’s calls for a public challenge? Why doesn’t he beat Bob’s world records? Why doesn’t he even beat Bob’s wife’s runner up world records? Actually I think Jerry Lewis from Jerry’s kids is supposed to be a super fast gun and can beat Jerry also.

He can’t even beat Byron Ferguson on trick shots and he uses a homemade bow and arrow.

You would praise a fake like Jerry. Bob can handle any type of gun from a colt 45 to a repeater 30-30 even to a colt 1911. Let’s see Jerry do that. He is a one gun person that can’t do anything impressive with another type of weapon.

Here is a pic of a real world legend in fast guns and trick shooting.

http://www.usgalco.com/images/Links/BobMunden.jpg

Look at that pic and ask yourself why Jerry never answered Bob’s call on national Television to beat even one of his fast draw shots, speed shots or super aim.

Now go do your homework assignment and come back when you know what a real world legend is like.

Hey Sean, cool down dude! Let's keep it a little less personal OK? OK, so maybe Jerry is a one trick pony, he had to have the "gift" to get the one year of traning and million dollar sponsers. Not everyone has the "gift' and even after a year of training still would not be world class, or even great. Jerry is by all accounts a really nice guy, but then Bob may be the salt of the earth too, I have not met either guy, but I'd like too!

Jerry is a crock and a fake, .........

Well here you are saying that from behind a fake name. I use one too, but I'm not the pot calling the kettle black eh? Go do your own homework smartaleck, before we have to dig out those old posts about the deadly 2 mile .22 lr shots.

Miculek could shoot the pants off you Sean "Doc" Martin, or are you now Elmer Keith's reincarnation in addition to being the next Gerald LK Smith?

Hey Sean, cool down dude! Let's keep it a little less personal OK? OK, so maybe Jerry is a one trick pony, he had to have the "gift" to get the one year of traning and million dollar sponsers. Not everyone has the "gift' and even after a year of training still would not be world class, or even great. Jerry is by all accounts a really nice guy, but then Bob may be the salt of the earth too, I have not met either guy, but I'd like too!

No, Sean is an expert. He was in a cage match once, did you know that? Sean knows Miculek is a fraud. Shooting sponsors pass out a million bucks all the time. In fact, maybe Sean will get a million bucks from a sponsor like Miculek. Because he was in a cage match you know.

I just saw Miculek's shoot, and I must say I was impressed by his speed, but consider this if you will:

Miculek starts with his gun in a ready position
Munden starts with his gun in a holster

Miculek uses a Double-Action revolver
Munden uses a Single-Action

I have not seen any draw time from Miculek, but Munden draws, fires and HITS in 0.0175 seconds

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These are just some of his records:

Walk and Draw Level Event: Fastest Time Ever Recorded: .15 hundredths of one second - Arcadia, CA 06/04/1972.

Standing Reaction Balloon Event: Fastest Time Ever Recorded: .16 hundredths of one second - Norwalk, CA 01/21/1973.

Total of Five Separate Shots, Standing Reaction Balloons: 1 and .06 hundredths of one second - Arizona State Championships, 1966.

Self-Start: Fastest Time: .0175 hundredths of one second - Guinness Book of World Records Museum, New York, 1976. This time is less than one half, of one half, of one tenth, of one second. Bob has been recognized by the Guinness Book as: "Fastest Gun" "Quickest Draw" and "The Fastest Man With A Gun Ever Alive."

Using live ammunition, Bob holds the record for hitting a 2' x 4' steel, rectangle target 21' away in .21 hundredths of one second.

Let's pray these guys never call each other out