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CLINT SMITH

Clint Smith, President and Director of Thunder Ranch Inc  Clint Smith is a Marine Corps veteran of two infantry and Combined Action Platoon tours in Vietnam. His experience includes seven years as a police officer during which he served as head of the Firearms Training Division as well as being a S.W.A.T. member and precision […]

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JADE STRUCK

 Jade Struck is a competitive shooter and firearms trainer who has made a name for herself “shredding,” as she would say, on the course. She is part of Taran Butler’s team of shooters at Taran Tactical Innovations. “Of course we have to mention Jade Struck, one of the best female shooters I’ve ever worked with,”

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JERRY BARNHART

Jerry Barnhart is an American sport shooter and firearms instructor. Jerry Barnhart is an American sport shooter and firearms instructor with three individual silver medals from the IPSC Handgun World Shoots (1986, 1990 and 1996), and has been team member of the U.S. gold winning team six times. He is also ten times national champion

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CMDT GIDEON SCHEEPERS

Gideon Scheepers (1878–1902) was a Boer military leader, scout and heliographer during the Anglo-Boer War. He is remembered for having been executed for being falsely accused of being a Cape rebel, and alleged war crimes. Gideon Jacobus Scheepers was born on 4 April 1878 in Middelburg in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. When he turned 16 he

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JAN DIRK BREYTENBACH

First commander of 1 Reconnaissance Commando, the first unit founded within the South African Special Forces. Jan Dirk Breytenbach DVR SD SM MMM (born 14 July 1932) was appointed by General Fritz Loots, the founder of the South African Special Forces Brigade, as the first commander of 1 Reconnaissance Commando, the first unit founded within the South African

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KYLE E. LAMB

Founder and owner of Viking Tactics  Sergeant Major Kyle E. Lamb, is a former U.S. Tier 1 Special Operations Forces Operator who served in the elite group U.S. Delta Force. Sergeant Major Kyle E. Lamb has served more than 21 years in the U.S. Army, 15 of which were in Special Operations. SGM Lamb has

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TERRY CROSS

Terry also owns and operates KMW Long Range Solutions and 1 Mil Right. Terry Cross is truly one of the legends of our sport! Terry was born in East Texas and grew up in rural Louisiana and was introduced to formal rifle and pistol competitions in 1976. His desire to improve led him to begin

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TODD HODNETT

One of the Most Experienced Long-Range Shooting Experts in the Industry Todd Hodnett has carved his own well defined path by not fitting into someone else’s predetermined box. He’s a problem solver and pioneer in extreme long-range shooting whose career has had a snowball effect in the wider world, leading to improvements in the way

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KOSIE VAN DER MERWE

 Privilege might be an understatement, rather blessed to have a father like mine…  Kosie was born on 4 Nov 1931. He grew up as the elder of the five children with in a home of a railway conductor. After school he did not have any money and started, like many other unemployed young boys, to

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