Many years ago while waiting for my dad to close the pharmacy I rummaged through old cabinets in the dusty, dark back room of the store. There in the dim light I found a long forgotten .22 WCF cartridge. The cartridge went home with me and awakened an interest in shooting, gunsmithing, and bullet making, that has never diminished.

I made my first gunstock while in high school and picked up spare change repairing guns. My college choice was Trinidad Junior College where I studied gunsmithing.

After Trinidad, I worked as a gunsmith at an eccentric little store until moving to the Oregon Coast. There my brother and I met the die maker, Ted Smith, and we started Corbin Mfg., Inc. For the next twenty-four years I designed and made the tools and dies we sold. Then, for a number of reasons, I left to start my own shop, RCE, LLC.

Over the years I have been active in many competitive disciplines. I held an expert rating in NRA Bullseye pistol, and an expert card in NRA Small Bore Position and Prone competition. I helped start one of the first High Power Rifle Silhouette clubs and regularly took part in it. I was also active in NRA High Power Rifle competition, earning a master rating and the Distinguished Rifleman Badge.

I have been making bullet swage dies and tools for thirty-five years. Many of my shooting buddies are gone, arthritis in my fingers makes it harder to do machine work, and I would like to be able to do some of the experimenting and design work that I used to have time for. With that in mind I will be moving away from doing custom work to only making stock designs. Hopefully this change will allow me to reduce delivery time and let me get out and shoot some.

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