Click here to download the catalog as a PDF file. To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. Excellence don Powder, providing propellants for shooters and hunters. For helping build the company into what it is today, a company featuring 54 reliable, high-performance muzzleloading and smokeless powder products. For being a tireless defender of the Second Amendment and being instrumental in starting the NRA Handloading Endowment. For being an avid hunter, reloader and shooter.” “This is such an honor,” Hodgdon said in accepting the award. “I can’t think of another honor I have received that has anything like this behind it, as far as a lifetime honor. I think it shows a little bit of the American spirit, private enterprise and capitalism — what a great country we have. “My dad (Bruce Hodgdon) started as a simple gas service salesman selling appliances and he took advantage of an opportunity he saw after World War II (to start Hodgdon Powder). This is the same kind of thing, I think, that has enlivened our country today and it’s what has made our country great. I want to thank you folks sincerely from the heart.” Sturm, Ruger received the Manufacturer of the Year award: “For remaking the company to better serve the firearms industry, including creating new firearm and ammunition combinations that eclipse current performance standards, such as Ruger Compact Magnum rifles and the Ruger SP101 .327 Federal Magnum revolver. For the Voice of the Customer program seeking input from consumers and resulting in the M77 Hawkeye rifles, Charger pistol, the SR9 and the LCP. For enhanced dealer offerings, including co-op advertising, special order programs and expanded Web site content.” “I’d like to thank all the employees of Ruger who made this possible,” said Michael Fifer, Sturm, Ruger CEO. “These are the men and women who work really hard every day to try to make a change in Photos: Jim Armstrong Bob Hodgdon was honored with the 2008 Shooting Industry Award. “I want to thank you folks sincerely from the heart,” Hodgdon said, in accepting the award. Members of Sturm, Ruger show off the two awards the company received: Manufacturer of the Year and Handgun of the Year. www.shootingindustry.com SEPTEMBER 2008 29