Bryan has been a reenactor and history buff since 1977. Having reenacted a variety of periods both in the US and in Europe. Prior to helping to found the Hesse Kassel Jaeger Korps in 1995 he spent 6 years with the 71st Regiment of Highland Foote out of Maryland where he first began seriously digging into Ferguson and his Rifle. Bryan is also a period armourer and gunsmith having built and taught others to build hundreds of black powder arms and other hand held muscle and tension powered weapons since the early 1980s. He "has something of a penchant for building oddball arms" and has a decent library of historical arms related resources. He is a member of The National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association, and National Rifle Association, the Honorable Company of Horners, the American Long Rifles, the Company of Military Historians, and various less formal groups of period gunsmiths and armourers and is a regular attendee of Chuck Dixon's Custom Muzzle Loading Faire in Kempton PA. Bryan works for IBM when he isn't reenacting.