The NRA Golden Bullseye Pioneer Award specifically honors outstanding personal achievement. The award spotlights the exemplary achievement and cumulative body of work of an individual, members of a team or partnership, or family who were responsible for the development and introduction of shooting equipment that has made a profound, positive and enduring impact on the way Americans shoot and hunt,said Joe Graham. This year's winners are legend in our industry.

The Network is proud to announce that the winners of the 2009 Golden Bullseye Pioneer Award are Robert E. and J.B. Hodgdon, officers of Hodgdon Powder Company, a firm well known to reloaders and firearm industry professionals. Robert is also a member of the Advisory Council for the Outdoors Network. For nearly six decades the Hodgdon brothers have worked in the company founded by their father, Bruce E. Hodgdon. Today Hodgdon meets the needs of shooters, reloaders and hunters around the world with an extensive array of smokeless and blackpowder substitute propellants, and the company continues to bring innovative new products to market.