I thought Ike Hamma was the originator of the idea?
ha ha ha....Leigh knows.
Im not sure if he was the actual originator, but he was from my understanding the first one to make a decent one that worked. He was whom I was referring to a few posts ago, about it being legal at the time because NOBODY knew anything about it.
Was told him and old man Folk had them and were just whupping up on everyone.
One other thing you have to remember, at that time very few people knew you could react before the green light lit. Just knowing how the tree works was a big advantage in itself.
