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Ross has a good story in the latest Double Gun Journal. Includes a fine old rifle and a great Elk. Damn I wish he wrote more.

Yes, sir. I have been a fan of his work for a long time.

writes good, a real turd to talk to if he just met you. might just be me, dontknow?

I to wish he wrote more, as it is great to read the work of a guy who has btdt and can build a rifle, as opposed to the crowd of "writers" that just yack about and take pictures of the latest pos to show up in the mail.

The last story of his was the one where he said his single
shot Ruger would hit a tomato juice can at 800 yards every
time. Since I doubt if he could improve on that I have
never read him again.

All by itself?

LOL, sprayed Folgers.........

Ken, Your point is well taken. He didn't say he couild do it.
I may have rushed to judgment. I felt it coming in over the
top of my boots and jumped to a conclusion.
Take care!

Ross is one of my favorite writers too.

One time I found an old Alex Henry rifle for sale at a local shop at what I thought was a really good price. I didn't have the means at the time, and I know Ross is fond of the old classics, so I called him to tell him about the Henry. Got his number from an Elk Song advertisement. We talked for some time, maybe a half-hour or so. Even though he didn't know me from Adam, he was cordial to me and appreciated that I thought of him regarding the Henry rifle. He even welcomed me for a visit. Now, one phone call does not a friend make, but the door remains open.

I take it that you don't think the #1 one could do that. Why?

He posted pictures of groups he shot at a mile in one of his articles. The guy can shoot. I wouldn't bet against him.

I think many here would be amazed what some good shooters, who actually practice and shoot all the time, can do at some quite long distances.

If he was speaking of a #10 can (which is pretty good sized), I would not doubt that he could hit it nearly every time. I mean, if Steelie can hit a Jack Daniels at 700 in less than 7 shots with an unknown rifle and load, then what couldn't Ross do??????

Heck, anybody can hit a tomato juice can at 800 yards all day. I have a couple of 80 gallon cans of juice that we use to make our sphagetti sauce and hot sausage sandwiches for the annual gun raffle/family day/flea market weekend at the gun club. I'll bet that Mr. Seyfried could hit a smaller can than that with a handgun at 800 yards.

Terry

On a dead calm day, at the end of a day of shooting, at the KD range at Anniston AL, I hit a coke can (on the end of a stick) six times out of eight, at 600yd.

That is not my experience with him. Called him up one day out of the blue to discuss .416's with him and he was very cordial.

I enjoy his "Respected Rifle" video on Remington.tv

http://www.remington700.tv/#

At our first meeting, amid a coterie of his adoring worshipers, just after my Custom Cartridges book was published, he immediately, loudly, and vociferously raked me over the coals for allegedly accrediting a certain cartridge to someone (he said) who'd "introduced" it later than the real originator had.

He was wrong.

I'd used dimensions from the original originator, who'd originated it long before the fellow whom he thought was the real originator.

And he hadn't even seen my book yet. Apparently, somebody had told him that I'd called a certain cartridge the ".xxx Whosis," and he thought that I should've called it the ".xxx Somebody Else's." (I'm not sure that my ramshackle memory is all that accurate so many years later now, but I think that it was an old OKH cartridge that my friend Charlie O'Neil had originated long before Peter Capstick put his name on it.)

If I'd never made an honest mistake � and a public fool of myself � I might've gotten mad.

On later occasions, he's been as gracious as anybody could be.

And there's no doubt that
� he knows whereof he writes
� he's a better-than-average rifleman
� he's a better-than-average writer

All in all, he rates pretty high with me. One turd does not a sewer make.

I have followed Mr. Seyfried's advice from many of his articles and found the results to be as he claimed. A good indicator he knows what he is talking about.

+1
met the guy about 25 or so years ago at a gun shop in western Colorado. VERY arrogant. I was introduced to him by the owner (a good friend) and he barely glanced my direction or offered a hand shake. Haven't read much of his stuff since.

Everyone has bad days.

I have met Ross several times in person. In each case he was hospitable and polite and generous with his time and knowledge.