This Was the HARDEST Stage at Race Gun Nationals 2025

This video showcases Lena Miculek, a professional competition shooter, executing a USPSA-style stage at the Race Gun Nationals 2025. It highlights her expert-level stage planning, high-speed target transitions, and efficient movement, emphasizing the mental game of competitive shooting. The Sig Sauer P320 competition build used features a red dot optic, compensator, and specialized components for optimal performance.

This video documents Summer's first IDPA competition of 2026, offering insights into stage performance and competitive shooting techniques. The content highlights the importance of managing environmental factors like cold weather, refining movement and footwork, and making strategic decisions during stages, such as when to take make-up shots. The instructor's analysis provides valuable lessons for intermediate competitive shooters.

This video captures a significant personal moment for professional shooter Lena Miculek, as she is proposed to at a shooting range surrounded by family and friends, including her legendary father, Jerry Miculek. The scene highlights the intersection of her passion for competitive shooting and her personal life, showcasing her specialized gear and the supportive community within the shooting sports world.

Ben Stoeger, an expert competitive shooter, analyzes the Zermatt Arms Waltz 9 pistol, focusing on its unique 'soft and flat' recoil impulse. He contrasts this with his preferred 'fast and snappy' recoil characteristic found in pistols like the Atlas Titan, emphasizing the importance of quick slide reciprocation and return to center for competitive performance. Stoeger highlights that the Waltz 9 achieves its desirable feel through a unique roller-bearing action, avoiding the sluggishness often associated with soft-recoiling firearms.

Lena Miculek, an expert competitor, details a critical magazine management technique to prevent catastrophic failures during timed stages. The advice focuses on establishing a consistent routine for handling partially used magazines, emphasizing that they should be kept separate from reloaded magazines until they are also fully reloaded. This prevents accidental use of an empty or partially loaded magazine under the pressure of competition.

This expert review from SHOT Show 2023 details the CZ TS3 competition pistol, highlighting significant upgrades over the TS2 model. Featuring a cold hammer-forged barrel, a lightened and optic-ready slide with universal footprint compatibility, and improved frame ergonomics like a deeper beaver tail cut and trigger guard undercuts, the TS3 aims for enhanced shooter control and accuracy. The pistol also boasts a lighter trigger pull and ambidextrous, adjustable controls, making it a top-tier choice for competitive shooters.

This video showcases the Arsenal Firearms AF2011, a unique double-barreled 1911 pistol, firing two .45 ACP rounds per trigger pull. Professional shooter Jerry Miculek demonstrates an astonishing 'quad-wield' rapid-fire capability, achieving 20 rounds in 1.5 seconds with impressive accuracy. The analysis covers the pistol's recoil impulse, comparing it to heavy magnum calibers due to its dual reciprocating slides.

Jerry Miculek shattered speed shooting records, firing 8 rounds in 1 second and completing a 12-shot reload in 2.99 seconds. He used a Smith & Wesson Performance Center 8-shot revolver, demonstrating elite marksmanship and reloading techniques. This content highlights the pinnacle of competitive revolver shooting.

Lena Miculek, a World Champion shooter, details the revolutionary 'quad load' technique for shotgun competitions. This method, enabled by a specialized shell caddy system, allows shooters to load four shells at once, dramatically increasing speed and efficiency. The video showcases the evolution of this technology from its debut at the World Shoot to becoming an industry standard, fundamentally altering shotgun competition strategy and performance.

Jerry Miculek demonstrates a high-speed shotgun reload technique, achieving 8 shots in 3.5 seconds. He emphasizes that reloading speed is often more critical than shooting speed in competition. The video details the Mossberg 930 JM Pro setup, including specific modifications like the Arredondo speed loader chute and Nordic Components extension, and discusses safety modifications on speed loaders.