Bill Rodgers

  • FBI agent 
  • 1972 devised the first Kydex holster
  • patented the process to laminate leather to the inside of a sheet material
  • 1973 Rogers Holster Company
  • devised the first paddle holster
  • devised the first “ retention ” holsters
  • 1982 devised the electronic shot timer
    https://www.competitionelectronics.com/
  • 1985 Rodgers holster company purchased by Safariland
  • 1985 member of Team Safariland
  • 1975 Rogers Shooting School
  • 2010 Author of “Be Fast, Be Accurate, Be the Best”

RogersShootingSchool.com

Bruce Nelson

1948 – 1995

  • born on Jan 3. 1948 in Duluth Minnesota
  • became an NRA member when he was seven years old
  • 1954 worked for John Bianchi in Monrovia Ca
  • shot in the Southwest Pistol League
  • 1969, he became the fourth member of the Fillmore (California) Police Department
  • California Department of Justice, Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement
  • 1975 created the CDOJ Advanced Training Officer Survival Program
  • 1976 one of the 40 founding members of the International Practical Shooting Confederation
    – holster committee w/ Michael Harries
  • 1976 second place in the I.P.S.C. Columbia Conference Match
  • 1977 I.P.S.C. Southwest United States Champion
  • 1984 wife Sandra Froman, “Sandy”
    – NRA president 2005 – 2007
  • 1985 Bruce Nelson Combat Leather stated in Tucson, AZ
  • February 15th 1995 Bruce passed

http://brucenelson.com/