1947
Shawnee, Kansas

• Bruce drafted into service during World War II
  – Navy aerial gunnery instructor
  – used skeet to teach his students about the lead required to hit targets
  –  loaded shotshells each night so he could teach class the next day
• 1947 started by Bruce and Amy Hodgdon
•  first surplus powder offering after World War II
  – government sold him surplus 4895 gunpowder
• Nov 1947 first ad selling surplus powder in American Rifleman magazine
• 1947 – brought surplus powder to market
  – as Hodgdon H4895
• acquired the IMR®
• acquired Goex®
• licenses the Winchester® Smokeless
• supplier of gunpowder and blackpowder
  – handloading and muzzleloading enthusiasts