Peter Pi Sr., the founder of Cor-Bon Ammunition, having sold his company, has formed a strategic alliance with Super Vel Ammunition to grow Super Vel’s sales and assist with new product designs as Super Vel’s director of business development.
“Peter Pi is highly regarded for his many innovations at Cor-Bon and Glaser Ammunition, including his patented bullet designs and the introduction of such cartridges as the .400 Corbon and .500 S&W Magnum. It has been well said that when Peter Sr. founded Cor-Bon in 1982, he essentially picked up where Lee Jurras, the founder of Super Vel, had left off,” said Super Vel Ammunition president Cameron Hopkins. “It’s more than fitting that Peter Sr. would now lend his extensive expertise to the new Super Vel.”
Super Vel Ammunition was founded by Lee Jurras in 1963, who is credited with the invention of the jacketed hollow point bullet. Super Vel created a whole new genre of “police ammunition” which literally revolutionized defensive handgun ammunition. Jurras left the company in 1975, and Super Vel went out of business shortly thereafter. Hopkins, the former editor of American Handgunner Magazine, resurrected Super Vel Ammunition in 2013. Located in Nevada, the new Super Vel is producing a line of self-defense handgun ammunition that includes several novel and unique loads.
“I’m excited to form a strategic alliance with Super Vel and my old friend Cameron Hopkins. Lee Jurras was my inspiration and I want to see his legacy memorialized as the true pioneer of high performance ammo” Pi said.
“Peter will take Super Vel to the next level,” Hopkins added.
