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A while back there was some discussion about the whereabouts of Ross Seyfried. Wherever he is, he's still plugging away because the 2016 Hodgdon book has an article by him on Olde Eynsford black powder.

There's also a good one by JB on the wonders of 165gr bullets and 4350 in the .30/06.

I have always found Ross Seyfried's writing interesting and well done.

Ross is in Oregon.. He has a place called the Elk Song Ranch.. I gather they sold their place in eastern Colo. He wrote some of the best articles I ever read...

I really enjoyed his writing and style.

He did a Pic about his last hunt at the old Family land, was good, something about the buck dieing near the green of the golf course that was built on the land net to his place!

I always thought his style was a bit flowery, but he knows a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff. He got me off to a good start with my Hornet, and also saved my flintlock project with a timely article in Blackpowder. I'd like to see him in print more often.

Ranch is in North East Oregon, just outside of LaGrande

I had read the new article myself and have been hoping he was going to be writing more.
Even when the project he's working on and writing about isn't my thing, I learn by how he approaches it.

I thought he had sold the Elk Song Ranch. I remember quite a long time ago that he had put the ranch up for sale. Does anyone know whether this is correct or not?

Many years ago my wife and I were travelling in the area and paused at a rest stop where I was able to glass a part of his ranch. It looked like the kind of area where a broken down old man could have a hunt for elk. Unfortunately I never followed up on it, then I heard he had quit having hunts there.

Jim

The ranch was sold several years ago. For a while afterward Ross was living in Oklahoma, but don't know if he still is.

I just googled the ranch and there are several listings which indicate the ranch was put up for sale in 2011 for 8.5 million dollars. Then a year later the price was reduced to about 6.9 million dollars. No indication as to whether it ever sold.

Jim

It was sold at the reduced price: www.mirrranchgroup.com/ranches/elk-song-ranch/

He's in Kentucky now and doing well.

That's good to hear. I can't imagine why a guy like him would move back east.

I reckon so; $6.9 million would go a long way on the bills right now.

I still use a Cold Steel Master Hunter after reading a piece in which he extolled its virtues.

Same with my 700 MR .270. Had to trip the .338 WM when times got tough c. '94.

He mighta bought some elk ground in Eastern KY...

I remember reading his articles in Guns&Ammo Magazine. I always enjoyed his stuff.

I very much appreciated that Ross always showed a real respect for the game.

Kentucky elk. Plus some pretty big deer there, and in neighboring Ohio, plus the four archery-only counties in WV.

A few million bucks will get you a pretty big chunk of Kentucky, last I checked.

Always enjoyed his writing even, as someone else said, when the topic itself wasn't one of my interests.

No better writer, ever.