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Getting a click rather than a bang at the range is embarrassing. Getting a click rather than a bang on the street can cost you your life.

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If you've made the decision to use deadly force, six carbine rounds in the upper cavity of the chest is more effective than one and then assessing the situation.

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Rod Ryan, president of Storm Mountain, demonstrates the correct way to perform speed and tactical reloads with a handgun.

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When it comes to shooting from behind cover "one of the things you don't want to do is crowd the cover," says Rod Ryan, president of Storm Mountain, a training company in West Virginia.

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A lot of people think a 100 yard shot with a handgun is impossible. It's not and Rod Ryan, president and CEO of Storm Mountain, shows us how it's done.

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"There's a lot of ways to fix this wrong," says Rod Ryan, president and CEO of Storm Mountain, about a stove pipe jam in a semi-auto handgun.

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The importance of the "bullet on bullet" drill is that it uses all of the rules of marksmanship: sight alignment, sight picture, breathing, trigger control and follow through.

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Buck-naked combat can be embarrassing, but getting dressed could cost you your life.

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There are three main ways to manipulate a pistol during a reload. Each way works, but one way tends to be fastest.

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This is not a call to arms, nor is it fear-mongering, but here are at least five good reasons why the time is now to head to your reloading bench.

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Have you ever been to a firearms range where you were not allowed to point your gun in the air during reloads? Well, that can be downright dangerous.

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