Yamil R. Sued, well known for his photography of shooting sports, posted a few hundred pictures from the 2010 Steel Challenge to his Facebook page.
I flipped through a few hundred of the pictures and noticed a few things from the top shooters:
- Modern Isosceles is where it’s at.
- Those pictures that exhibited the least recoil also exhibited shooters with strong grip. Just look at the state of the muscles in their forearms.
- But while having a strong grip, everything else appeared to be relaxed. Note I said “appeared”. May not have been, but nothing looked to have as much tension as their grip.
- Read more Brian Enos.
- 1911’s dominate
The best thing I observed?
Jerry Miculek is the only shooter that defies recoil. Either every picture Yamil took was of Jerry not shooting, or that man has the strongest forearms in the world. Normal humans cannot defy recoil… Jerry is obviously super-human. 😉
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I’m Jerry the shooter man, bang bang……….
Look at his forearms, they are the size of my thighs. He is the only shooter I’ve seen who really does hold the gun down out of recoil and if you watch video of him shooting, he steps forward to gain balance because he leans in so much gravity to fight recoil along with his massive forearms.
And I love that in the 2010 Steel Challenge main match he shot revolver and came in 6th overall (tops OSR division, natch). Next OSR shooter was over 25 seconds behind. Jerry was just over 2 seconds slower with his revolver than with his open gun… only about 6 seconds out of the top slot. I mean… the man is amazing!