Favorite gun writer

RAD said:
Hi;

What has happen to Ross Seyfried? He use to write for Handloader and had a great column and some good/excellent articles
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He got fired because he doesn't play well with others...

I think he is writing for Double Guin Journal/
 
Ross Seyfried

If I can interrupt.

What magazine does Ross Seyfried write for now. The last time I read anything by him was in the Handloader magazine. That was a few years ago. By the way, why did he stop writing in that magazine? If anybody knows.
 
I really like John Barsness, Mike Venturino and Brian Pearce from Handloader.
Some others that catch my eye are Keith and Waters. Ther are others but you know how it is when it comes to remembering names.
Ken.
 
what i like was in an issue of handloader last year, mike venturino admited to badmouthing milsurps in the past, picked up a 91/30 sniper and admited he was wrong.

a while back i was blown away by an article by wayne van zwoll, in it he admitted to taking his first deer with a lee enfield. the whole article was about cartridges that are perfectly ideal for hunting and listed such rounds as .303, .30-40, .30-30, 7x57 and so on and so on. most over gun writers would be screaming blasphemy. i like john barsness and garry james of G & A as well, and going back 50 years, maurice decker of fur-fish-game. like many not much on boddington, but his daughter is smokin'...
 
Win/64 said:
Billy Bob Thorton?
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The dean of the outdoor writers was Jack O'Connor, as far as I'm concerned.
His articles on reloading, with an honest account of the loads he used, has never been duplicated by any other writer. On top of that, he would personally answer questions sent to him. I know, this seems incredible now, but he did and I even still have one reply of his to me.
 
H4831 said:
The dean of the outdoor writers was Jack O'Connor, as far as I'm concerned.
His articles on reloading, with an honest account of the loads he used, has never been duplicated by any other writer. On top of that, he would personally answer questions sent to him. I know, this seems incredible now, but he did and I even still have one reply of his to me.
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I know 'they' were often at odds;) but Keith was much the same. In May 1975 I had the opportunity to meet Elmer at his home in Salmon Idaho and spend the day talking with him. I have a big picture in my den that was taken with him standing beside my truck aiming his 4" S&W :) that day. It is very similar to the picture in the 1st Lyman Book of Cast Bullets. Prior to that I had sent him a couple of letters primarily requesting some direction in reloading for & shooting handguns and still have his replys. Keith was an all round firearms writer and hunter whereas I don't believe Jack O'Connor had much to do with handguns.
Skeeter would do the same but his main focus of interest seemed to be handguns and I did receive a reply from him as well.
Looking at my book shelf, there's another author, for hunting aspects, that I just noticed and haven't read for quite a while. Francis E. Sell. The book, The American Deer Hunter.:)
 
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In pages 34-39 of the (March) (Harris) Custom Combat Handguns Denis Prisbrey tests "truly a Super Grade pistol in terms of materials, fitting and workmanship", the $4200. C&S .45acp longslide Super Grade. Apparently, it sure was a beauty. (C&S also happens to be a regular advertiser.) Frankly, he has never been a favorite...until now. Why?

Readers who made it to page 97 know the rest of the story. On page 97 he then reported the range results, namely that: 1. it didn't feed hollowpoints, and; 2. the barrel link sheared off.

In my opinion, the fact that we even heard about it speaks to journalistic integrity. I like that.
 
In all the replies I see only one mention of Charles Askins (Jr.) Myabe that is because others think like me and I place him on the very top of the "unlikeable" writers. Arrogant, pompus, know-it-all, plus highly critical of good writers.
Jim Carmichael had it really hard, taking over from Jack O'Connor, but he certainly knows firearms and is a good writer.
No one has mentioned our two west coast Canadian writers, Lee Straight and Mike Cramond. Lee was primarily a salmon fisherman, but did lots of rifle shooting and expirementing, as well. Mike Cramond was sort of always in Lee's shadow, but has written some good books on western Canadian hunting.
One can sertainly learn a lot about firearms from Julian Hatcher's famous book, "Hatcher's Notebook."
I have two good pistol books by Nonte. I have Jack O'Connor's, Rifle and Shotgun Book, his Shotgun Book, but darn, don't have his one on rifles only.
My most unique book has to be my favorite. "Camp Life and the Tricks of Trapping," by W. Hamilton Gibson. Here is what is stated on an opening page.
"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, W. Hamilton Gibson,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington." all rights reserved.
It even has sections on hunting buffalo!
 
I think the man who shared the most information about rifles; loading, shooting and hunting, was Townsend Whelen. I read lots of articles through the years that could charitably be referred to as opinion and lots more that was simply advertising. Townsend Whelen talked rifles, and what he wrote was valuable.
 
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