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Grice Gun shop was founded in 1955 by Lynn “Scoot” and Janet Grice. Scoot returned from his service in the Army and had reopened his Uncle Tom's gas station on Third Street, Clearfield, Pennsylvania. Janet got a job working as a secretary at Dumont Airplane and Marine in Hyde, PA. She eventually started working full time at the Gun Shop.

At the station, Scoot was washing, greasing cars and pumping gas year round. The service station had a small income, offering a very meager living. Hunting was a fact of life to put meat on the table. This necessity made guns a natural part of life, and he soon started reloading ammunition for himself and a few customers. The hobby inspired him and Janet to imagine the possibility of opening a gun business in the future.

In the late 1950’s, there were thousands of military surplus rifles in the hands of people who had purchased them and brought them back from WWII. With a little know-how and about $100 in equipment, he and Janet started sporterizing these guns at the service station in their spare time. Starting the gun business was a slight risk, so they maintained the gas pumps and grease pits. Business was looking up and sales continued to climb each year. In 1962, they embarked on the first phase of construction expansion of Grice Gun Shop. They started producing custom rifles in addition to sporterizing military rifles. Scoot did the gunsmithing, metal work, bluing, and fit the stock, and then Janet would do the high-gloss finishing.

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