Jerry was at my local shooting range about 8-mo ago (Sendero) in central TX and was letting me look at one of his custom wheel guns he won a world record with. Some dude walks up behind me and says, "Now why would someone do all that to a revolver?". He was dead serious, and Jerry was no more than 2ft directly in front of him. Down here, we tell those kind of people "Bless your heart." Although, "Don't you DARE ND into the ceiling, again!" probably fits, too.
Every time I watch Jerry in his shop I always have a little chuckle at my neighbors expense. He is a retired marine who always tells me not to store ammo long term, but I want to send him a screen shot of this wall to poke at him a little.
I live in southeast Alaska, it rains alot and everything rots. I found some ammo that sat in my garage that is open to the air. The ammo was there for 20+ years and was completely green. I cleaned up the brass with some steel wool and it all shot just fine. I'm sure ammo that is stored indoors would probably last 100 years.
Since they have been selling surplus ammunition, much of which is 50 years or more old, that functions quite well, your Marine friend might want to rethink his position. I have fired shotgun ammunition that was over 60 years old that has been in an indoor closet most of that time and it works just fine. Same for some nearly 50 year old 22 lr.
Some people are still sitting on WW2 ammo, that mostly works and is collectable, lol. I try to keep about 1k rounds for each gun till I got more guns than I could store ammo for, semper fi
GI ammo cans are great for long-term ammo storage. Just be sure the rubber gasket for the lid is intact. Keep the cans in a temperature-steady location (preferably cool) and it'll probably last longer than you.
Jerry, knows safety, understands safety and practices safety and teaches safety! Perfect. No bullet can leave the range no matter what happens unexpectedly!
Fantastic to see my favourite gun RUclipsr back. I spent 8 months lamenting your disappearance! Awesome video and explanation. And I loved your "High-horse" berm chuckle...but SO logical and sensible. PLEASE keep 'em coming - love love love your content! Hey from NZ.
Jerry, I was so happy when I saw that you had a new video and even more so watching it. I hope you do not wait so long next time since you have so much to offer.
First time I saw Jerry on this "set", the same thought crossed my mind, kkkkkk. Does he uses ALL of em or is this just to show, like the tons of books all lawyers always have behind them in the office? Kkkkkkkkk
Jerry please keep posting these types of videos where you are simply sharing your knowledge and talking to us. It is so valuable in this age of the tiresome bearded gunbro culture on RUclips. Jerry is the best of the best. ❤
Smart tip on dropping the bolt in a safe direction...point well taken...if there's going to be an accidental discharge it's likely to happen in that moment. I have the same attitude about folks who clear a gun then pull the trigger...but not in a safe direction.
I love you Jerry. if it wasn't for your videos id of never gotten into the sport. I wish to shake your hand one day, but if not ill still love you either way. You are a true brother
Great to see another video from Mr. Miculek always teaching me something about something, and I did get a .223 & 308 brakes from Jerry and they are totally worth the very reasonable prices. Thanks Jerry
Thank you, Jerry, for sharing all of your knowledge and insight with firearms and how to make them perform to their maximum potential. All of the World Championships you have won give credibility to your subject matter. We met at a championship 3 gun event and I really appreciated you for being so kind and speaking with me personally. Take care and good luck in all your future events.
Jerry everytime I hear your voice I learn more about being a better Shooter. You Sir are as relevant to firearms as Sam Colt, Benjamin Henry, Moses Browning and Eugene Stoner. Thank you
Hi Jerry! Nice to see a new video from you. I was already afraid that something had happened. I hope you do a lot more. I learn something new every time. ❤
Last year I bought an old 16" Dissipator that somebody had cobbled together. It used a nonadjustable rifle length gas system fitted to a shortened pencil barrel and sported a CAR buffer system. I wanted it to look like an original Colt prototype Dissipator so I installed a rifle buffer system and early style M16 stock. This slowed the bolt down so much that it would not pick up a new round when fired, but the recoil was next to nothing. I kept mixing and matching rifle length springs of different power levels with bolts and buffers of different weights until it cycled reliably with G.I ball 55 grain ammo. It remains my softest shooting AR.
College level explanation by Jerry as always, leaves you with no questions as to what is really going on, I hope he makes a similar video with service pistols and competition pistols.
The mag buffer alone is a significant improvement to felt recoil. It eliminates snappy recoil that often is a symptom of an over gassed rifle but does so without having to tune the gas down.
I have that magnetic buffer and can say it makes a very noticeable difference in recoil. So glad I found out about that when I did. Worth every penny. Wish there was one that could work well in an AR-10 platform.
Good evening, jerry and family. Happy Sunday to everyone there. Thank you for the tips. 😎🤘🇺🇸🍻. Yes, sir. I got some Saturday morning out in my field. And! Lately, that evening. 🤪😘🤣.
jerry seems like you should most definitely try the a5 tube, you can get a tube from many different manufacturers and it allows the use of a rifle spring and its supported with buffers and hydraulic buffers from a lot of manufacturers
Thanks for the post Jerry! Its crazy seeing the difference of the muzzle devices. That offset stock is really neat. It reminds me of a paintball gun company, Planet Eclipse from the UK. They offset the feedneck on their guns to reduce/eliminate paintballs from going down the feedneck and bouncing back up from the breech then getting chopped by the bolt. So the energy is not straight up and down but reduced at a slight curve. Good luck at your competitions!
I just port it if I don't want recoil. I have a very bad back. At best I can shoot maybe 20 min. I found that porting, springs and doing a polish job eliminates recoil. I have an S&W SD9VE with three large ports behind the sight, crimson trace red dot, 22lb recoil spring and lots of polished parts, trigger job and springs. It shoots flat with no recoil. Love that pistol now though I loved it before. I have four giant ports on my shotgun. Polished internals, red dot and filed receiver with modified loading gate to make it easier to load, and I added magazine extension for 9 shells ghost loaded. Love your show.
I built an AR in 2020. I was getting bruised from the recoil. I figured out the stock buffer in the stock was to light. I upped it to 7.4 oz from 4.0 and that made all the difference.
@@lucky43113 There is a weight in the stock that fits into a spring that absorbs the recoil of the bolt when the rifle fires. This is called the buffer. The spring can absorb only so much energy. The buffer's inertia dampens the recoil too. To dampen the recoil more increase the mass of the buffer. it's a conservation of inertia physics trick. It worked like a charm. Of course you can still feel the recoil but it's easily manageable now and doesn't leave bruises on my shoulder with prolonged use. I found several articles on the subject by professional marksmen that were talking about tweaking the AR platform for competition matches. I learned a lot about the topic.
Thank you Sir... I just found your site,and I appreciate you sharing your experience,and knowledge with us that's awesome... God bless you, and your family.. Matt, KY.. ps are there any competition platforms for handicap shooters?
Jerry I agree with you 100% about charging an AR platform. In one of my reloading groups the other day. I had an idiot arguing with me about primers I told them they need to use the military-style hardened primers in their are platforms and he was arguing with me there's no need. He was standing within the reloading such as Hornady and Lyman is there a load Data doesn't specify to used military style. I tried to explain to him that those data charts and load data was usually for bolt action firearms I got tired of trying to get the idiot to about slam fires on any semi-automatic with a free-floating firing pin. I really wish Hornady Lyman another reloading groups would have more information in them pertaining to semi-automatics will the free float firing pin system. I've been a bolt gun shooter for years but I do love the ar platforms and have a safe full of them that I have built from scratch, and not just of one caliber. Everything from the 556 to 450 Bushmaster. Not a fan of the.50 caliber platform.
A game i play is to insert and lock the loaded magazine into an open bolt, depress the trigger as close as i can guess to breaking weight, point rifle at target, and send the bolt home. Helps to discover and train out overpulling when it goes off.
I recently got the Vltor A5 buffer system for recoil reduction. It is an intermediate size buffer tube and has a longer buffer and a rifle spring. The only downside is the stock is about 3/4 of an inch from collapsing all the way, but that's not a big deal to me. It is also a 7 position tube so I still have 6 different length settings, it just starts at number 2. The mid length gas system really works great on a 14.5 pinned and welded compensator rifle as well.
You should try a Tubbs flat wire buffer spring. It eliminates the tube harmonics. It really smooths out the rear section of your msr. I noticed a big difference.
I'd really like to see your adjustable gas tuning method. Running a lighter buffer with little gas (4 clicks from closed). Not currently running a can. Thinking about increasing buffer weight and adding more gas.
Wonder how many people will probably say something like “just learn to shoot better” not realizing who they’re talking to.
My guess is 0-1 people.
Jerry was at my local shooting range about 8-mo ago (Sendero) in central TX and was letting me look at one of his custom wheel guns he won a world record with. Some dude walks up behind me and says, "Now why would someone do all that to a revolver?". He was dead serious, and Jerry was no more than 2ft directly in front of him.
Down here, we tell those kind of people "Bless your heart." Although, "Don't you DARE ND into the ceiling, again!" probably fits, too.
HE’S BACK!!!!! I thought Jerry was done doing videos. It’s been months. He’s one of the best.
he goes on the road for work
Every time I watch Jerry in his shop I always have a little chuckle at my neighbors expense. He is a retired marine who always tells me not to store ammo long term, but I want to send him a screen shot of this wall to poke at him a little.
I live in southeast Alaska, it rains alot and everything rots. I found some ammo that sat in my garage that is open to the air. The ammo was there for 20+ years and was completely green. I cleaned up the brass with some steel wool and it all shot just fine. I'm sure ammo that is stored indoors would probably last 100 years.
Since they have been selling surplus ammunition, much of which is 50 years or more old, that functions quite well, your Marine friend might want to rethink his position. I have fired shotgun ammunition that was over 60 years old that has been in an indoor closet most of that time and it works just fine. Same for some nearly 50 year old 22 lr.
Those are boxes of bullets, not loaded ammo.
Some people are still sitting on WW2 ammo, that mostly works and is collectable, lol.
I try to keep about 1k rounds for each gun till I got more guns than I could store ammo for, semper fi
GI ammo cans are great for long-term ammo storage. Just be sure the rubber gasket for the lid is intact. Keep the cans in a temperature-steady location (preferably cool) and it'll probably last longer than you.
Glad to see you back after 9 months brother!!
God bless~
“Say no to recoil?!!?”
Scott is going to see this, and end up crying.
😂😂😂 i think that too
😂😂😂
950 JDJ has entered the chat.
Scott does love to abuse himself with recoil!
Jerry, knows safety, understands safety and practices safety and teaches safety! Perfect. No bullet can leave the range no matter what happens unexpectedly!
He is Mr. Safety. I like how his is considering worst case and unexpected discard. Safety is job 1 through 10, and then you can pull the trigger.
It's so good to see Jerry posting more videos, sharing his wealth of knowledge.
Fantastic to see my favourite gun RUclipsr back. I spent 8 months lamenting your disappearance! Awesome video and explanation. And I loved your "High-horse" berm chuckle...but SO logical and sensible. PLEASE keep 'em coming - love love love your content! Hey from NZ.
"Get Some"..... Been missing these, thanks JM.
I got to meet Jerry a few months ago. What a down-to-earth guy he is.
Thanks for the info and to remind us all to keep our muzzles pointed down range when dropping a bolt ! Cannot say it enough !
The man, the myth, the legend!!! Good to see you providing some knowledge again!!! Thank you sir!!
Jerry, missed ya'll. Glad your back!
Jerry you're brilliance is 2nd to none thank you Sir!😊
Jerry, I was so happy when I saw that you had a new video and even more so watching it. I hope you do not wait so long next time since you have so much to offer.
Its great to see you back. Always informative content. Thank you.
Looks like Mr Miculek is big into muzzle discipline and avoiding negligent discharges.
Great video!
Thank you for making the distinction between a fighting rifle and a range toy.
Welcome Back Jerry! Thanks
The Man , The Myth, The Legend !!!
There was me thinking he took time off to sort those shelves of ammo out 😂😂
lol I bet he can find and caliber there without hesitation
@@AllTheDips yer he did say there is an order to it be for I was just joking
First time I saw Jerry on this "set", the same thought crossed my mind, kkkkkk. Does he uses ALL of em or is this just to show, like the tons of books all lawyers always have behind them in the office? Kkkkkkkkk
They are sorted, bullets go on shelves, done!
He didn't take enough time off for that! Lol
The absolute finest ambassador for the gun community.
Thanks JM
Jerry always got a lot of great insight. My rifle setup has taken a lot of inspiration from Jerry.
Jerry please keep posting these types of videos where you are simply sharing your knowledge and talking to us. It is so valuable in this age of the tiresome bearded gunbro culture on RUclips. Jerry is the best of the best. ❤
I was just looking at lowering the recoil of my ar... impeccable timing Jerry! We would love to see more of you!
I have used those magnetic buffers for years. Long before Jerry bought the rights. They are amazing!
Smart tip on dropping the bolt in a safe direction...point well taken...if there's going to be an accidental discharge it's likely to happen in that moment. I have the same attitude about folks who clear a gun then pull the trigger...but not in a safe direction.
The legend returns. Thank you Jerry, we missed you.
Im glad to share a name with a man who makes John Wick look like Barney Fife with firearms. Jerry Miculek has deadeye in real life.
Jerry, great to see you are back, it warms my heart. So many people appreciate your work! 🙏
THAT’S MR. LEGEND RIGHT THERE! Thank You Sir! I could watch and learn from you all day long. GOD Bless!
Glad to have you back. I was starting to be worried. Thanks for your videos and happy to see you in great form
The G.O.A.T. Much respect Mr. Miculek. Thanks for sharing.
I always learn something practical on Jerry's videos.
I love you Jerry. if it wasn't for your videos id of never gotten into the sport. I wish to shake your hand one day, but if not ill still love you either way. You are a true brother
Great to see another video from Mr. Miculek always teaching me something about something, and I did get a .223 & 308 brakes from Jerry and they are totally worth the very reasonable prices. Thanks Jerry
Ive been thinking of getting one of Jerry's brakes. How do you 'time' the muzzle brake so the ports are on the side?
@toddb930 they have a locking nut. In one of his videos that might come with a link with brake on how to fine tune it also.
They are loud though but work really well
Thank you, Jerry, for sharing all of your knowledge and insight with firearms and how to make them perform to their maximum potential. All of the World Championships you have won give credibility to your subject matter. We met at a championship 3 gun event and I really appreciated you for being so kind and speaking with me personally. Take care and good luck in all your future events.
Jerry everytime I hear your voice I learn more about being a better Shooter. You Sir are as relevant to firearms as Sam Colt, Benjamin Henry, Moses Browning and Eugene Stoner. Thank you
Hi Jerry!
Nice to see a new video from you. I was already afraid that something had happened.
I hope you do a lot more. I learn something new every time. ❤
Life happens, glad to have you back JM passing on your experiences, preferences, and thoughts.
JERRY! Good to hear your voice! Thank you for your information and wisdom as always. Stay safe, God bless.
It is fun to listen to Jerry. He has so much knowledge!
Last year I bought an old 16" Dissipator that somebody had cobbled together. It used a nonadjustable rifle length gas system fitted to a shortened pencil barrel and sported a CAR buffer system. I wanted it to look like an original Colt prototype Dissipator so I installed a rifle buffer system and early style M16 stock. This slowed the bolt down so much that it would not pick up a new round when fired, but the recoil was next to nothing. I kept mixing and matching rifle length springs of different power levels with bolts and buffers of different weights until it cycled reliably with G.I ball 55 grain ammo. It remains my softest shooting AR.
Glad to see you back Sir. We are here to learn your small tricks. Keep it coming
Wow! The difference at the range was massive! Brilliant!
Thanks Jerry, I always learn something when I watch your videos.
Thank you,that was a perfect explanation on the gas system and muzzle brake.
Welcome back Sir. Nice to see you again. Glad you’re well
College level explanation by Jerry as always, leaves you with no questions as to what is really going on, I hope he makes a similar video with service pistols and competition pistols.
Just got a Miculek buffer. Excited to try it out!
Ive had mine for 2 years and it really is a game changer.
Welcome back buddy, we missed ya
The mag buffer alone is a significant improvement to felt recoil. It eliminates snappy recoil that often is a symptom of an over gassed rifle but does so without having to tune the gas down.
wonderful pointers - noticable difference.
Welcome back! We missed you.
Common sense...ain't a whole lot of that floating around these days. Great explanation and video. Always enjoyable
the freezer part is so important and lots of folks will miss it, said at the end silently....
Excellent tutorial! Thanks Jerry. You da man! 🙏🏼
Such an amazing and humble person. The world needs more people like Jerry out here sharing their knowledge
Simple explanation and to the point. Thanks.
Love the subtitles, every time he takes a shot it auto-translates as "applause".
I have that magnetic buffer and can say it makes a very noticeable difference in recoil. So glad I found out about that when I did. Worth every penny. Wish there was one that could work well in an AR-10 platform.
God Bless You and I don't blame you for getting upset 👍
Good evening, jerry and family. Happy Sunday to everyone there. Thank you for the tips. 😎🤘🇺🇸🍻. Yes, sir. I got some Saturday morning out in my field. And! Lately, that evening. 🤪😘🤣.
jerry seems like you should most definitely try the a5 tube, you can get a tube from many different manufacturers and it allows the use of a rifle spring and its supported with buffers and hydraulic buffers from a lot of manufacturers
Thanks for the post Jerry! Its crazy seeing the difference of the muzzle devices.
That offset stock is really neat. It reminds me of a paintball gun company, Planet Eclipse from the UK. They offset the feedneck on their guns to reduce/eliminate paintballs from going down the feedneck and bouncing back up from the breech then getting chopped by the bolt. So the energy is not straight up and down but reduced at a slight curve.
Good luck at your competitions!
Very good info Jerry. I run both of your improvements. The Compensator and the Buffer.
Yeah a good comp keeps the muzzle flat and is loud af!
That is a downside, they are louder.
I just port it if I don't want recoil. I have a very bad back. At best I can shoot maybe 20 min. I found that porting, springs and doing a polish job eliminates recoil. I have an S&W SD9VE with three large ports behind the sight, crimson trace red dot, 22lb recoil spring and lots of polished parts, trigger job and springs. It shoots flat with no recoil. Love that pistol now though I loved it before.
I have four giant ports on my shotgun. Polished internals, red dot and filed receiver with modified loading gate to make it easier to load, and I added magazine extension for 9 shells ghost loaded.
Love your show.
I want to thank you for your videos, I learned a lot from them.
Its great to hear from people like him. Definitely he's a legend.
Sir, thank you for sharing your expertise. Was very informative.
Great to see you Jerry, really appreciate this video and your continued professionalism you bring to gun ownership.
Thanks
I built an AR in 2020. I was getting bruised from the recoil. I figured out the stock buffer in the stock was to light. I upped it to 7.4 oz from 4.0 and that made all the difference.
How is that even possible
@@lucky43113 There is a weight in the stock that fits into a spring that absorbs the recoil of the bolt when the rifle fires. This is called the buffer. The spring can absorb only so much energy. The buffer's inertia dampens the recoil too. To dampen the recoil more increase the mass of the buffer. it's a conservation of inertia physics trick. It worked like a charm. Of course you can still feel the recoil but it's easily manageable now and doesn't leave bruises on my shoulder with prolonged use. I found several articles on the subject by professional marksmen that were talking about tweaking the AR platform for competition matches. I learned a lot about the topic.
The Man, The Myth, The Legend. Always an honor to learn from you.
Gonna be honest. Thought he was about to give some fudd tips with the reload bit. But it was legit. Love this man.
It' good to see you. I pray that you, your family, and other loved ones are well.
That was some useful info there.
Thank you Sir... I just found your site,and I appreciate you sharing your experience,and knowledge with us that's awesome... God bless you, and your family.. Matt, KY.. ps are there any competition platforms for handicap shooters?
Jerry I agree with you 100% about charging an AR platform. In one of my reloading groups the other day. I had an idiot arguing with me about primers I told them they need to use the military-style hardened primers in their are platforms and he was arguing with me there's no need. He was standing within the reloading such as Hornady and Lyman is there a load Data doesn't specify to used military style. I tried to explain to him that those data charts and load data was usually for bolt action firearms I got tired of trying to get the idiot to about slam fires on any semi-automatic with a free-floating firing pin. I really wish Hornady Lyman another reloading groups would have more information in them pertaining to semi-automatics will the free float firing pin system. I've been a bolt gun shooter for years but I do love the ar platforms and have a safe full of them that I have built from scratch, and not just of one caliber. Everything from the 556 to 450 Bushmaster. Not a fan of the.50 caliber platform.
A game i play is to insert and lock the loaded magazine into an open bolt, depress the trigger as close as i can guess to breaking weight, point rifle at target, and send the bolt home. Helps to discover and train out overpulling when it goes off.
Great to see you doing videos again Jerry!
Love your gun safety, and wisdom!
I recently got the Vltor A5 buffer system for recoil reduction. It is an intermediate size buffer tube and has a longer buffer and a rifle spring. The only downside is the stock is about 3/4 of an inch from collapsing all the way, but that's not a big deal to me. It is also a 7 position tube so I still have 6 different length settings, it just starts at number 2. The mid length gas system really works great on a 14.5 pinned and welded compensator rifle as well.
Yeah mid-length is good. Springfield even released a mid-length gas rifle in their Saint line.
Nothing but good ol advice by the man himself Jerry!
Thanks for reinforcing the safety side on this.
Awesome as always. Good to have you back.
Missed you! Great to see a new video.
Parts list would be amazing. Thx for all u Grand Master. We love u Jerry
JM good to see you back and thanks for the lesson
Glad to see you making videos again!!!
Great to see you back!
You should try a Tubbs flat wire buffer spring. It eliminates the tube harmonics. It really smooths out the rear section of your msr. I noticed a big difference.
thanks for sharing your wisdom and your muzzle brake is a blast! 🇺🇸
Always dropping the knowledge bombs...thx Jerry.
Interesting. Been trying to get that magnetic buffer...but across the pond is quite expensive...
Yes, those magnetic buffers are very cool. I have one for my 9mm, and my 300blk. and my 12in. 556.
Thank You for the info. Y'all are awesome
9:11 THAT is ingenious, I've never thought of that. :)
Simply the best. JM, thank you.
Great to see you again.
I'd really like to see your adjustable gas tuning method. Running a lighter buffer with little gas (4 clicks from closed). Not currently running a can. Thinking about increasing buffer weight and adding more gas.