He also demonstrated and taught his shooting methods at the FBI Academy. His life and policing style was featured in magazine articles: "Life" in 1945, and "Look" in 1946. Following his retirement he filed as a Democrat for the Governor of Oklahoma, but fought as an independent, failing to be elected. Afterwards he became a farmer near Mountain View and participated in shooting exhibitions. Bryce was born on December 6, 1906 at Mountain View, Oklahoma, to Fel Albert Bryce and his wife Maggie Meek. He attended Mountain View High School, graduating in 1926, after which he moved to the city of Seminole to work in a grocery store before becoming a police detective and FBI agent. He married firstly Frances Maxine Wilson, the marriage producing their son, William Delf; they divorced in 1932, and she died from injuries sustained in a 1973 car crash. In 1944 he married Shirley Geraldine Bloodworth, the marriage producing their son, John Fel. Bryce died of a suspected heart attack on May 12, 1974, while attending an FBI reunion at the Shangri-la Lodge near Grand Lake. He was buried at Mountain View.