1906 – May 1974
Jacob Adolphus “Jelly” Bryce
often described as “the perfect shot”
F.B.I.’s first Sharpshooter
- 1906 Born in Mt. View, Oklahoma
- 1934 – joined FBI, Special Agent
- 1954 – retired
“Jelly” Bryce
Category Archives: Resources
ISRA
Illinois State Rifle Association
1903
Illinois State Rifle Assn
PO Box 637
Chatsworth, IL 60921
(815) 635-3198
https://www.isra.org
The Daily Bullet – Richard Pearson – ISRA
Nov 12, 2020
Joe Kindig Jr
1898 – 1971
- Gun Collector
- encyclopedic collection of more than 500 guns
- Quaker who has never fired a gun
- vegetarian
- largest collection of Kentucky long rifles in the world
- 1947 his son Joe III joined him in the business
- 1952
“Joe,” a wealthy York business man said,”when are you going to get a shave and a haircut and look like other folks?”
“On the day,” Mr. Kindig snapped back, “when you give $5000 to charity.”
The man took him up on it, and wrote $2,500 checks for two needy causes. Mr. Kindig, as good as his word, sat painfully through a shave and haircut. “It was awful,” he told a reporter. “With my hair and beard gone, I looked as ridiculous as you do right now.”
- May 1955, Life magazine published its first-ever foldout, highlighting Joe’s rifles
- 1960 wrote Thoughts on the Kentucky Rifle in Its Golden Age
- his book changed popular attitudes from thinking of the rifle as a weapon to appreciating it as an art form & the gunsmith a skilled artisan
- Few rifles are ever offered to the collecting public.
- Ninety-five percent of it remains intact
USRA
United States Revolver Association
1900
- National as well as state & local handgun matches
- 1900 – 1936 ran the U. S. Olympic pistol & revolver teams
- oldest known continuously operating organization for the handgun competition community
- formed to standardize the handgun competition rules etc. in the United States,
- to organize International and Olympic handgun competitions
Elmer Keith
March 8, 1899 – February 14, 1984 (85)
During World War II, was an inspector at the Ogden, Utah Arsenal
Rifles that he inspected are cartouche stamped with the initials “OGEK” in a rectangular box
Creator of the:
1935 – .357 Magnum cartridge
1956 – .44 Magnum cartridge
1963 – .41 Magnum cartridge
1956 – Ruger Model 29 .44 Magnum single action Blackhawk revolver
Western Cartridge Company
founded in 1898 – 1944
East Alton, Illinois
Cartridges made by Western are stamped WCC
- 1886 Franklin W. Olin received an engineering degree from Cornell University
- 1892 one of several investors in the Equitable Powder Company in East Alton, Illinois
- 1893 they made blasting powder for coal mining in southern Illinois
- 1898 Olin formed Western Cartridge Company
– manufactured rifle powder and shotgun shells - 1900 Union Cap and Chemical Company (UCC)
– formed with the Austin Cartridge Company (Ohio) - 1907 purchased the Alliance Cartridge Company
- forerunner of the Olin Corporation (1944)
- 1931 Western Cartridge Company acquired the Winchester Repeating Arms Company
- 1935 formed Winchester-Western
- World War II produced 3 billion rounds of ammunition
- 1944 Olin businesses were brought together as Olin Industries, Inc.
Western Cartridge Company
Rio Royal
1872
Texas
- Alfred Nobel
– 355 patents
– owned 90 factories
– left his fortune to the Nobel Prize - 1857 first patent for gunpowder filed in Sweden
- 1863 invented a new kind of detonator
- 1864 major explosion killed his younger brother Emil
- 1865 invented the blasting cap
- 1867 invention of dynamite
- 1875 invented gelignite
- 1887 invented ballistite
- 1896 RIO founded by Alfred Nobel
- 2002 Introduced to the U.S. market
– McEwen, Tennessee - 2012 the Nobel endowment was worth $472 million
- 2014 original factory in McEwen, Tennessee (exploded)
- 2015 moved to Texas
– headquartered in Irving, Texas
– warehouse in Marshall, Texas
– 105,000-square-foot
– produces approximately one million shotgun shells on a daily basis
RIO Ammunition
433 E Las Colinas Blvd., Ste 900
Irving, Texas 75039
214-389-1896
Savage Arms
founded in 1894
Westfield, Massachusetts & Canada
- 1892 Arthur Savage designed a rifle for Colt
– magazine in the stock, not under the barrel
– but contract was won by the Krag–Jørgensen - 1894 Savage Arms founded by Arthur Savage in Utica, New York
- 1895 Model 1895 the first hammerless lever-action rifle
– Savage invented the rotary magazine rifle - one of six companies to participate in the United States Army trials for a .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol
- 1897 – 1999 Model 99 lever-action rifle made for 102 years
- 1908 invented the removable box magazine
– but his patent expired in 1942 - .300 Savage. Savage
- merged with the Driggs-Seabury Ordnance Company
- World War I
– produced Lewis machine guns in Sharon, Pennsylvania
– produced Model 1899 muskets - 1919 approached by Chief Lame Deer to buy rifles for his tribe in New York
– Lame Deer offered Savage to use his image as its logo in exchange for discounted rifles and an annual fee - 1091 – Arthur Savage moved to Duarte, California, and formed the Savage Tire company, he invented radial tires
- 1920, Savage Arms bought Stevens Arms of Chicopee Falls, MA
- 1929 Savage acquired the A.H. Fox Gun company of Philadelphia and moved production to Utica, New York
- 1939 Model 24 combination gun
- World War II
– made most of the Thompson submachine guns used in World War II
– produced the British No. 4 Lee–Enfield bolt-action rifle - 1969 Canadian operations began called Lakefield Arms
– Lakefield, Ontario - 2002 the AccuTrigger
- 2018 Savage Arms is still paying the annual fee to Lame Deer
Ammunition
- 1894 – .303 Savage
- 1912 – .22 Savage Hi-Power
- 1915 – .250-3000 Savage
- 1920 – .300 Savage
ITA
founded in 1892
Interstate Trapshooting Association
- Made up of the gun and powder company manufacturers
- for the “encouragement of trapshooting”
- Headquarters was Pittsburgh, PA.
- Elmer Shaner was the manager of this association
- 1919 – became the American Trapshooting Association
- Headquarters was moved from Pittsburgh to New York
- Shaner did not want to relocate so he retired
- 1921 – Elmer Shaner become president of the American Trapshooting Association
Marble Arms
began in 1892
Gladstone, Michigan
- Marble Universal Rifle Sight
- 1892 began by Webster L. Marble Gladstone, Michigan
- safety axe
- compasses
- Marble Game Getter combination gun
Marble Arms
600 Delta Ave
Gladstone, Michigan
marblearms.com
