1949 1949 founder joyce hornady headquarters grand island nebraska u.s. area served worldwide products ammunition handloading equipment and supplies . owner steve hornady number of employees 200 april 2009 website www.hornady.com footnotes references largest independent producer of bullets in the world hornady manufacturing company is an american manufacturer of ammunition and handloading components based in grand island nebraska . contents 1 history 1.1 pacific tool company 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit the company was founded by joyce hornady who started in the munitions business in the early 1940s when he teamed up with vernon speer to make bullet jackets from spent brass rimfire cases . after world war ii hornady began buying up surplus manufacturing equipment from the us government such as waterbury farrell transfer presses which are still in use by the company today . in 1964 hornady began manufacturing rifle and pistol ammunition . the company is currently run by joyce hornady s son steve hornady who took over after his father s death in a plane crash in 1981 . 1 pacific tool company edit steve hornady worked for pacific tool company from 1960 to 1971 from the time the company moved from california to nebraska until pacific tool was bought by hornady . pacific s dl 366 was their final progressive press and hornady s first and it is still manufactured by hornady as the 366 auto . 2 products edit hornady makes target shooting and hunting rounds as well as high quality self defense loads . in 1990 the hornady xtp which stands for extreme terminal performance won the industry s product award of merit 1990 from the national association of federal licensed dealers . the company was the primary developer of the .17 hmr and .17 hm2 rimfire cartridges increasingly popular for small game and vermin hunting . hornady has worked closely with firearms maker sturm ruger on the development of the new line of ruger cartridges including the .480 ruger .204 ruger and .375 ruger . 3 4 5 the company developed the innovative leverevolution ammunition which uses a spitzer bullet with a soft elastomer tip to give better aerodynamic performance than flatter bullets while eliminating the risk of a shock driving the pointed polymer tip of a bullet in a lever action rifle s tube magazine into the primer of the cartridge in front causing an explosion . 6 hornady manufactures a range of handloading components including cartridge cases bullets and shotgun shell components as well as handloading equipment and data . at the beginning of 2012 hornady brought out a zombie max bullet apparently due to the growing interest in zombie shooting in america . 7 references edit zwoll wayne van 2011 . shooter s bible guide to rifle ballistics . skyhorse publishing company incorporated . pp. 184 185 . isbn 978 1 62087 285 7 . tamage ken 2011 . handloader s digest the world s greatest handloading book . iola wisconsin gun digest books . p. 166 . isbn 1 4402 2451 x. barnes frank c. 22 september 2009 . cartridges of the world a complete and illustrated reference for over 1500 cartridges . iola wisconsin gun digest books . p. 13 . isbn 1 4402 1330 5 . ramage ken 19 november 2008 . guns illustrated 2009 . iola wisconsin f w media inc. p. 77 . isbn 0 89689 673 0 . massaro philip p. 11 september 2014 . gun digest shooter s guide to reloading . iola wisconsin f w media . p. 225 . isbn 978 1 4402 3998 4 . taffin john february 2007 seven revolution it s not your grandpa s .30 .30 guns magazine fieldsportschannel fieldsportschannel . how to shoot zombies with real bullets . fieldsportschannel.tv . retrieved 29 october 2012 . external links edit official website hornady videos and information on ultimate reloader preceded by .50 bmg longest confirmed combat sniper shot kill hornady .50 a max 2002 2009 2 430 m 2 657 yd 1.509 mi using canadian long range sniper weapon lrsw .50 by rob furlong succeeded by .338 lapua magnum retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hornady & oldid 742336092 categories companies established in 1949ammunition manufacturerscompanies based in nebraskahall county nebraskaprivately held companies based in nebraska navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages polski edit links this page was last modified on 3 october 2016 at 03 11 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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