Thursday, 5 February 2026

Jelly Bryce - FBI Agent & Point Shooter:

On March 13 1962 President John F Kennedy said:

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible

 will make violent revolution inevitable."

Introducing JELLY BRYCE 1906-74:   

Sometimes there are folk with extraordinary abilities.

Not me .. I was always a 'mid field' runner. - In all my years competing at IPSC pistol matches and '3-Gun' Competitions I fluked one stage in one match, by winning it. As I recall, I was using a Glock G20 10mm Auto - but it may have been my G17 9mm.

That special stage win doesn't mean that the 10mm Glock loaded to 'major power factor' is faster than the smaller 9mm - it was just a fluke.

Jelly Bryce was a fantastic revolver shooter who is recorded as outshooting and killing some 20 gangsters in confrontations. He used the "combat crouch" hip shooting position, that was common in police training from the 1930s to the 1980s - He was both deadly and very fast on the draw. 


I read that he had fantastic HAND-EYE co-ordination and his eyesight was extraordinary in that - he could SEE every bullet he fired as it flew downrange to it's target.

I have been able to see the occasional bullet in flight glinting in sunlight from my pistol, on range.

It seems that the fantastic ability and combat record Jelly had, - led to the teaching of the combat crouch in law enforcement for around FIFTY YEARS .. Even though most police officers were not so gifted with his extraordinary point shooting abilities.

Here is a great story, well written, - about Jelly Bryce ..


Read, enjoy, and learn,
Some say he was the fastest gunfighter ever,
"Practice Baby - practice"

IN THE INTEREST OF PUBLIC SAFETY - WE MUST INSIST THAT ALL NZ POLICE EMPLOYEES QUALIFY FOR, & OBTAIN, AND MAINTAIN THE SAME STANDARD NZ FIREARMS LICENCE in exactly the same way that we citizens are required to.

Marty K.