{"id":17488,"date":"2012-09-26T07:20:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=17488"},"modified":"2012-09-26T07:05:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:05:51","slug":"team-smith-wessons-miculek-shoots-thru-downpour-to-take-idpa-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/team-smith-wessons-miculek-shoots-thru-downpour-to-take-idpa-title\/17488\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Smith & Wesson\u2019s Miculek Shoots Thru Downpour to Take IDPA Title"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jerry<\/a>

Photo by Yamil Sued.<\/p><\/div>\n

OXFORD, N.C. \u2013 When he wasn\u2019t carrying a revolver Team Smith & Wesson\u2019s Jerry Miculek was carrying an umbrella as he shot his way through a downpour at the 2012 IDPA<\/a> National Championships to win, once again, the Enhanced Service Revolver title.<\/p>\n

Miculek is ranked a Distinguished Master by the International Defensive Pistol Association but is widely recognized around the world as the best revolver shooter ever, and his string of consecutive ESR division titles bears that out. He won the 2012 National title with a time of 298.14 seconds and 75 points down.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is nobody in the shooting sports like Jerry Miculek. Besides being a once-in-a-lifetime shooting talent, Jerry is above all an ambassador for the sports he competes in and the companies he represents,\u201d said Joyce Wilson, executive director of IDPA.<\/p>\n

\"Jerry<\/a>

Photo by Yamil Sued.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWhile most top shooters would leave the range immediately after shooting in the rain, Jerry stayed behind and spent time talking to the match staff and volunteers. That\u2019s why you\u2019ll never find an IDPA club or match where Jerry Miculek isn\u2019t warmly welcomed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taking on a wheelgun icon isn\u2019t easy but that didn\u2019t stop those from trying. Finishing second to Miculek was Team RangeLog\u2019s Toni Dandreamatteo, the only ESR Master competing, who posted a time of 396.26 with 167 points down. First ESR Expert went to Irvin Earles with 526.95 (224), while first Sharpshooter went to Emilio Franco, Jr. with 414.94 (127) and Raymond Duroy, the only ESR Marksman, finished with 542.88 (245).<\/p>\n

The 2012 IDPA National Championships took place September 19-22 in Oxford, N.C., drawing many of\u00a0the shooting sports’ top pistol and revolver shooters.<\/p>\n

Fore more information, or to get started in this fun and exciting defensive pistol shooting sport, visit www.IDPA.com<\/a>. You can also connect with IDPA online by following @OfficialIDPA<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter, like ShootIDPA<\/a>\u00a0on Facebook, watch IDPA TV<\/a>, or check for regular updates on the\u00a0DOWN ZERO Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When he wasn\u2019t carrying a revolver Team Smith & Wesson\u2019s Jerry Miculek was carrying an umbrella as he shot his way through a downpour at the 2012 IDPA National Championships to win, once again, the Enhanced Service Revolver title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[164,2597],"tags":[2513,48,54,2459],"class_list":["post-17488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idpa","category-shootingsports","tag-2012-idpa-nationals","tag-jerry-miculek","tag-team-smith-wesson","tag-toni-dandreamatteo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}