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There are no articles by him in the new Hunting Horizons nor in the new Handloader. Anyone know if he has left these magazines? Or is it just temporary?

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A few weeks ago Mule Deer made a comment that we wouldn't be seeing articles about obscure calibers any more from Ross in Rifle/Handloader for reasons he wouldn't be getting into here.


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Ross no longer works for Wolfe Publishing, for reasons--once again--that I can't get into here.

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Hopefully he'll end up back at Petersen's. G&A hasn't been the same without him.

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I recently hunted with the editor of G&A, and I sincerely doubt it.

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One version of the story was that he was about to start writing for a European shooting magazine. Maybe G&A needs him back now. There has been a pre-announcement that Venturino has gone over to Rifle/Handloader and Guns/American Handgunner.

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Sounds like trouble. I've been reading Ross's stuff since 1982, and I'll sure miss him. Will we ever know the reason? It may be none of our business, but then again, his fans ought to have some inkling.

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No more Seyfried?! I'd say Wolfe has greatly improved their publications. RS

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I was never really hot nor cold about Ross, his topics didn't interrest me much but his writting wasn't all that bad.

I do miss Finn Aagard tho - and his son (I think its his son) really isn't as good IMHO.


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Teal, I think that you are referring to Berit, Finn's widow. I find her articles interesting but a friend of mine considers her writing a waste of ink. To each his own..... RS

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Ross was my hero; He had a Ruger rifle that would "hit a tomato soup can every time at 800 yds".
Such a gun ( and writer) will be hard to replace.
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mec--

Let me a little more explicit. I recently hunted with the editor of G&A and Ross Seyfried came up in one conversation. Let's just say that judging from that conversation, the chances of him going back there and none and none.

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it did kinda-sorta sound like that was what you were saying. It sounds like one or both parties are disaffected-not an unusual condition in the world.
I wonder if the pre-announced move of venturino is true?

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Maybe those rumors that Ross did his load development from a disk & really didn't do much shooting caught up to him?

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Seyfried is a good and unique writer, it was nice to read a writer who could rebarrel arifle himself, make safe handloads for .500 express rifles etc. He and Barnes make the wolfe publications, the gene pool has just been lowered by half. Remember when rifle and handloader used to be full of real shooters experimenting with stuff? Siefried was that type of writer, I would love to buy his collected works. I have come to the conclusion that Al Miller is a code word at Wolfe publishing for old rehashed, rerun articles. What happened to Ken Waters?, he was excellent, wasn't Siefried his replacment? I am considering not buying wolfe pub. any more, the price is to high for one good article by barnses per magazine.I think maybee precision shooting, the accurate rifle, the double gun journal are better bets for my money. Wolfe pub. have gotten much better the last few years, (still not as good as Ken Howell days) these years coinsided with the years Siefried was there. I am very disapointed to here this news, again I like and respect Barnsnes work, but one good writer per magazine is not enough.

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I agree that Ross was, and no doubt still is, a good writer but nothing remains the same. Change will always come, if it didn't Bob Hagel would still be writing for the Wolfe publications and I would be as happy as a hog in mud if he still was.

I am just happy for certain articles I have read that Ross wrote in the past. Whatever the reason is he won't be writing for certain publications in the future does not concern me because I a not bound by any law to buy those publications if they don't satisfy me.

Few people knew Finn Aagaard before he started writing in the U.S. for various publications and for my money he was one of the greatest blue-collar writers there was. Who the next such person will be is an unknown at the present time, but I guarentee you one will surface because they always do. Even Mule deer won't write forever, as well as the other writers we now enjoy on this forum!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
I for one will simply move on and be glad for the great writers we do have and try not worry to long about those that are gone or leaving because that is something I can't change. I will remember certain ones forever, and will use them as a standard to compare new ones to as reading what I want to is something I can do something about. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />


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I'll greatly miss Seyfried. He wrote about guns that he really liked and was excited about. The enthusiasm came through in his writing. Some of his interests weren't my primary ones but I liked that he was showing me something new. Too many gun mags are becoming nothing but advertising copy for gun and ammo manufacturers.........DJ


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I really enjoyed reading Ross' stuff. I hope he won't have to start the old .270 vs .30-06 articles just to get a new gig! I like the fact that he often went to great extremes to get some obscure rifle to shoot a bullet as it was originally designed to do. I can't think of any more unique bullet casters out there than him either..

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He was an early champion in the International Practical Shooting Association Matches and was never dependent on the gun industry to make a living. His interests were wide- ranging and esoteric and included some extremely powerful 19th century rifles and uncommon handguns from the same era.

When he started, the gun magazines were much more important to shooters than they are now. The circulation of Guns and Ammo and Shooting times are a fraction of what they were in 1990 or even 1998. ( they picked up a bit in circulation during the last six months).

It appears that material in the shooting magazines have narrowed in scope and there's not as much room for such things as two-bore double rifles and Webley-Wilkerson revolvers.

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� I haven't read Seyfried � don't get the magazines that he wrote for.



� My understanding has always been that he's an able writer who knows whereof he writes, well regarded by his readers and by the writers who know him. (I don't know him.)



� Just after I'd published Designing and Forming Custom Cartridges, we ran into each other at the SHOT Show. He lit into me like I'd stolen his wallet or worse. Obviously very angry, he demanded to know why in *&^%$#@! I'd given credit for some cartridge or other (he didn't say which) to a later "originator" instead of to the person who'd designed an earlier version of it. I replied that I'd simply used the reliable data that I'd been able to get and hadn't used any hearsay dimensions or unsubstantiated rumors.



"Have you seen the book?" I asked (knowing that he hadn't gotten a copy from me). He looked surprised by the question.



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� I know nothing more about the man � neither better nor worse � certainly nothing of his current situation or what's next for him.



� And I have no opinion of him. One isolated incident with no enlightening background tells little or nothing of the fullness of a man's personality or worth. Our sole meeting could equally well be typical or unusual.


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