Dan Pearlson

Pearlson has built his career developing and adapting cutting-edge telecommunications technology, and has worked with major telecommunications companies and defense contractors. Pearlson has been involved with two other proposed precision ammunition companies — Saber Ultra Precision Ammunition, announced in Nevada in 2012, and Ultra Precision Ammunition, announced in Texas in 2013. Neither manufactured a single bullet. Clay first met Pearlson at a military symposium in Forth Worth, Texas, where defense contractors, soldiers, military brass and software experts like Pearlson rub shoulders. It was through a conversation about how to make more accurate ammunition that Pearlson decided to tackle the problem. Pearlson said he left Ultra Precision after deciding some of those involved in the company were unscrupulous. In May 2016, he announced plans to build a $41.5 million ammunition factory on a reclaimed mountaintop overlooking Riverside High School in Kanawha County. The proposed Ranger Scientific ammunition plant would initially employ about 450 people with average salaries promised to be around $70,000, Pearlson said at a news conference announcing the project.