RCBS was founded in 1943 by Fred T. Huntington in Oroville, California. Huntington was a dedicated shooter, but found it difficult to obtain quality varmint bullets. However, after reading about making a die to swage .22 rimfire cartridge cases to form jackets for bullets, he began to craft his own dies in the back room of his father’s Oroville laundry and dry cleaning business. Because the resulting bullets were used to shoot rock chucks, a varmint of western North America, he named them Rock Chuck Bullet Swage dies, later shortened to RCBS. (less)