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Fall Fest 2025 Gear: What Female Competitive Shooters Are Really Using

During Fall Fest 2025, A Girl & A Gun captured a comprehensive snapshot of competitors’ gear, offering invaluable insights for firearms and accessory brands. This data is particularly meaningful because women are not merely participating in the sport, they are actively driving trends and making long-term investments in the gear they choose. These insights go beyond numbers; they reveal real-world purchasing and usage habits of female shooters. For brands, understanding which models, accessories, and gear resonate with women is essential to engaging this rapidly expanding market.

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10/22/2025
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Air Guns with Breanna Garvey

In this Bonus Virtual Girls Night Out, Breanna Garvey from Umarex introduces us to airsoft, pellet guns, and other air guns, and how they can be used for training for defense and competition.

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05/12/2022
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Preparing for a USPSA Match

In this video, Gabby Franco encourages you to jump into USPSA. She will teach you how to get ready for a USPSA competition as a new shooter. You’ll learn the mental, emotional, and physical tasks of preparing for a pistol match. Gabby will help you set your goals for physical and mental training for a positive shooting experience. She will give you training trips to prepare for competitions, how to develop an effective stage plan, how to visualize your plan, and how to have the right mindset for success!

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08/05/2020
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Single-Action Revolvers

In this video Randi Rogers offers tips and tricks for shooting single-action revolvers. Students will learn different categories of cowboy-action, which even includes shooting two guns at the same time! Learn all of the gear and equipment needed for Single Action Shooting Society (SASS) competitions, and then proper stance and grip so that you have optimal control over the handgun, making you a faster, more accurate, and more confident shooter. Drawstroke, sight alignment, and all of the fundamentals of single-action shooting are also addressed. Follow along as Randi walks you step-by-step through dry-fire and live-fire drills.

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07/05/2020
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Competitive Pistol

Austin Proulx is wicked fast, and even he admits that pistol competition is a balance of speed and accuracy. In this video, Austin teaches you how to build speed and fine-tune accuracy. Body movement, draw, eye focus, acceptable sight picture, trigger manipulation, and target transitioning are some of the topics covered.

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05/05/2020
Competition Gear

Intro to PCC

In this video, Maggie Reese Voigt introduces you to the pistol caliber carbine (PCC). Students will learn about the features, benefits, and versatility of the platform. Maggie covers setting up drills and how to transition from dry fire at home to live fire at the range. You’ll learn techniques for grip, stance, sight picture, and how to maintain your firearm, so that you can succeed in competition, too!

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05/05/2020
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Chris Evans Wins Unique-ARs Custom AG & AG Hand Guard

Chris Evans from Elizabethtown, PA, was the winner of a one-of-a-kind A Girl & A Gun AR-15 hand guard at the Brownells Ladies’ Multigun Fall Festival. The 2017 Fall Fest Match took place October 6-7, 2017, at Rockcastle Shooting Center in Park Mammoth, KY. Unique-ARs was one of the sponsors of the event, contributing several prizes including this custom free-float forend.

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10/23/2017
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Preparing for Fall Fest with Tina Martin-Nims

Tina Martin-Nims is a pro shooter, with many sponsors. She will be attending this year’s very popular A Girl & A Gun Brownells Ladies’ Multigun Fall Festival, where she will be teaching a section of Guided Stage Strategies, the Know Your DOPE course, as well as two sessions on “Gear Tips & Tricks.” She has some great tips to pass on to competitors to help prepare for Fall Fest as well as any other competition.

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09/16/2017
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Andrea Kennedy Wins Colt Competition CRX-16

Andrea Kennedy is the winner of a Colt Competition CRX-16 rifle, which was presented at 3-Gun University on March 19, 2017. The event, which took place at the CMP Talladega Marksmanship Park, offered 2 days of training sessions on pistol, shotgun, and rifle with competitors running a 4-stage match on the final day to put their new skills to the test. Competitors were able to visit the prize table in random order. Andrea, who is Active Duty in the Michigan Army National Guard, was the lucky participant drawn to go first.

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03/28/2017
Brand Spotlights

Show Your Personality with a Unique AR

Unique ARs has 33 different hand guard designs and a custom department with a design team to help people create their own designs. If you are ever in the McCall, Idaho area, you are welcome to stop in at Unique ARs and take a tour. And while they don’t have a store-front, they do have a display rack with every design they make. “It’s a great opportunity to touch and feel the weight of each one,” smiles Katie.

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02/06/2017

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