started in 1949

“Accurate, deadly, dependable”

 

• World War II Joyce Hornady trained marksmanship to the security force at the Grand Island Arsenal
• Hornady acquired the first of many Waterbury Farrell assembly presses,
• 1949 a two-man operation
• Hornady Sporting Goods Company
• 1958 built the 8,000-square-foot plant
• 1964 Frontier Ammunition surplus military brass with Hornady bullets
• 1960 new manufacturing space 25,000 square feet
• 1970 Steve Hornady, Joyce’s youngest son, joined the company
• 1971 acquired Pacific reloading Tool Company
  – thry invented the “C” type reloading press in 1928
• January 1981 Joyce Hornady and his companions died ina plane crash en route to SHOT Show
• Steve Hornady became president

Hornady Manufacturing
3625 West Old Potash Hwy
Grand Island, NE 68803

800-338-3220

hornady.com