If Seyfried stopped writing now, I can't think of very many people who would step up and take over with the kind of work he's doing with British sporting arms of the mid to late 19th Century.
And it's not simply the work of an historian, either. He hunts with these rifles and shotguns and has spent uncounted - and uncompensated - hours recapturing the knowledge of how to make ammo for them. Knowledge, it appears, that even the original makers have lost.
I can understand why a lot of modern hunters would have no personal interest in hunting with iron sights and fat, lead bullets, but I can't understand why so few people see a value in what he's doing.
The hunting and shooting sports have a long heritage. A lot of that heritage has been lost to us for good. Seyfried is obsessively and compulsively trying to save as much of it as he can. I applaud him for that.
- Tom
