Glen Fryxell has been fascinated with guns and hunting his entire life, and started hunting early, primarily with a bow and arrow during his teen years in central Texas, and more recently with handguns across much of the western US. He is a chemist by training, and professionally his interests have centered around environmental chemistry and nanostructured materials. On the personal side, he is avid hunter and handloader, mediocre guitarist, and married to the sweetest redhead on the planet. He has been casting bullets and reloading ammunition since the 1980s, and has hunted primarily with handguns since about 1990. His fascination with the use and performance of cast bullets in the hunting fields, in conjunction with his technical background in materials science and chemistry, led him to study the fascinating field of metallurgy in his spare time in an effort to more deeply understand bullet performance in the hunting fields.