Jerry Miculek vs. Olympic Shooters,,,

Wasn’t it Jerry that had the 200 yard shot on a 12” steel plate with a revolver? That would equate to a 3” target at 50 yards. Plus at 200 there was wind age and elevation to account for.
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I saw that on You Tube. Question is, was it his first shot? Second? Twentieth?

Right. Now do it 29 more times. Onehanded.
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Exactly.
 
I take nothing from Jerry and what he can do with a gun…
I hit a 250 yard 12x18 silhouette on the 2nd shot with a S&W 625 5” running 200gr SWC…first shot hit the post it was hanging on, 3rd missed right, 4th missed high right and 5th hit the head. First shot was 100% luck, the rest were all me…this was a couple years back when eyes were a little better and I had been shooting 2-500 every weekend.
 
What made me wonder about this was a childhood reminiscence,,,
One of our family friends was an exhibition shooter.

I just wish I could remember his name,,,
When he was around I was 6-7 years old.

He worker for one of the ammo manufacturers,,,
And toured with carnivals and rodeos and such-like.

I remember him shooting better than my TV western hero's of the day.

One thing that I do remember is him telling my Mom,,,
"There ain't no money in competition shooting,,,
That's why I do this for a living."

That would have been around 1957-58.

Aarond

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I might be wrong (wouldn't be the first time, certainly not the last), but I thought the biathlon events are in the Winter Olympics. Haven't been a big fan of the Olympics since 2000. So, I'm out of touch with everything that has changed.

My simplistic take is, if Miculek was provided a couple of years to practice on specific events, he would give Olympians a run for their money.
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https://olympics.com/ioc/international-biathlon-union

These seem to be summer events
 
Looks like there is a summer variant to the biathlon.

http://www.biathlon.net/summer.html
Summer Biathlon will typically consist of a 5 to 10 km run with two shooting stops. The course is divided into three loops with prone shooting following the first loop and standing shooting following the second loop. For both prone and standing shooting, competitors have five rounds to hit five targets set at 50 meters (for a total of ten shots). A 100m penalty loop must be run for every shot missed. Unlike winter biathlon, rifles are left in the shooting range on a rack. Competitors pick up rifles as they enter, and leave them as they exit the range area. For National and International events, there are rules and regulations which govern the length of the course depending on competitor class (Men, woman, junior men, junior women), the shooting distance, target size, rifle, and so forth
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Yikes! Run, shoot and run more for each miss.

No pressure!
 
These seem to be summer events
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Not sure why you say that. My interpretation is that the distances mentioned refer to the cross-country skiing portion of the event. Combining cross-country skiing with shooting is the only version of the biathlon I have seen.
 
Not sure why you say that. My interpretation is that the distances mentioned refer to the cross-country skiing portion of the event. Combining cross-country skiing with shooting is the only version of the biathlon I have seen.
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see post #26. There is a 'summer biathlon' which replaces skiing with running.
 
The reason why the biathlon rifle matches were established for 22 rimfire at 50 meters was it was easier to setup ranges around the world. Both the IOC and ISU made it happen.

Same thing with the 300 meter centerfire free rifle cevents. I watched Lones Wigger be awarded the last 300 meter 10 ring scoring disc for shooting the last event.
 
it was easier to setup ranges around the world.
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Yup. I was always fascinated by Walther Winans shooting 100 meter Running Deer with a Rigby .22 Savage High Power. Rule says centerfire, manually operated. But that was in 1906.

I recall an old American Rifleman article about the Army team trying to game that. Most European competitors just got real good with a Mauser. The Army tried to seize an advantage by shooting Remington 760 pumps; originally .223 but fitted with 28" .222 barrels and receiver sights.

The event was toned down to Running Boar with a .22 at 50 meters.
Then to a running boar at 10 meters with an air gun. Now a sliding bullseye so as not to offend the anti-pig elements.
 
I'd like to see anyone shoot 100 22 rimfire bullets inside 1 MOA at 50 yards without artificial support.

The record set in 1975 is 205 shots .. by a woman.
 
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I do not understand the shade being thrown at Olympic shooters in this thread.

It sorta reminds me of the the SNL sketches during the Mike Ditka Chicago Bears era where they sat around and decided DITKA could be beat godzilla.

Miculek is a talented, disciplined shooter who excels in his sport who can do amazing things with a handgun.

Olympic shooters are talented, disciplined shooters who excel in their sport.
The French guy who won Gold in Tokyo at the Men's 25m rapid fire scored a 4 out of 5 and a perfect 5 in the final 2 strings of 4 seconds each at 25m shooting at a 10cm target. And that is not a world record. Miculek or not, that is some incredible shooting! Oh yeah, they shoot off-hand!

There is plenty of room in the shooting world for masters at multiple levels.
 
Bart B. said:
I'd like to see anyone shoot 100 22 rimfire bullets inside 1 MOA at 50 yards without artificial support.

The record set in 1975 is 205 shots .. by a woman.
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Darn wimminz! Takin our Goldz!

I always wondered how the Russians felt about that winter "lets shoot some Rooskies" Hayak memorial ski and shoot event they do during the Winter games.

I do not understand the shade being thrown at Olympic shooters in this thread.
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Agreed. Different sports. Interesting that no seems to be "throwing shade" at the skeet/trap shooters. :rolleyes:
 
International trap and skeet have not been toned down like the bullet matches now shot with .22s at most and more commonly with air guns and even laser tag for the Pentathalon.
Shotgunning remains full scale.
 
aarondhgraham said:
I wonder how well Jerry would do against the US Olympic team?
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The Olympics don't shoot with 'recoil'. They use to before even that got hijacked by the New World Order. it's so far removed from real sportsmanship in just about every category.

They now have men disguised as woman in weight lifting.
And shooting air-rifles for marksmanship, what a complete joke.
 
Note the fact that 22 rimfire match ammo made after 1980 has been less accurate.
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Seen that before.
Why do you think it is not worth ANYBODY'S time to make truly superior ammo? Seems like that if somebody would go to the trouble to equal that old Mk III, they would own the target shooting market. For a while.
 
Jim Watson said:
Seen that before.
Why do you think it is not worth ANYBODY'S time to make truly superior ammo? Seems like that if somebody would go to the trouble to equal that old Mk III, they would own the target shooting market. For a while.
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If it was worthwhile for them, they would if they could.

Same reason Eley and RWS improved their 22 rimfire ammo after Winchester's MKIII began winning. Lapua Midas 22 ammo won the last big rimfire match consisting of 640 record shots over 4 days.

In the early 1990's, the US government allowed Russian made Olimp rimfire match ammo that tested most accurate. The Soviet mafia soon took over the plant to make only AK47 military ammo.

Barrels used to maintain match level accuracy for at least 50,000 rounds. Since the primer changes in 1980, life's now a bit more than 30,000.
 
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