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batex · Jan 23, 2011

I still get some of these magazines, but only when the offer I feel is a very good deal. I think the last gun mag I subscribed to was for $8/year. For less than a $1.00 an issue, I don't mind, even though you are correct in that there is a lot of BS and recycled content in some of the mags. Still, I enjoy seeing what's new and what's hot at the moment.

Interestingly, one of the local gun/pawn shops always has a stack of vintage gun mads from the 70's, 80's and 90's that he give away for free. I always walk out with 3-4 in my hand. American Rifleman back in those days was a much better magazine, not just advertizing and sales info.

jkc · Jan 23, 2011

ladder13 said:
You're right Dick. Same with Outdoor Life and the other hunting/fishing mags. Same articles year after year on when's the best time to snag that BIG buck, where to set up the ambush, blah blah. I cancelled all the mags I used to get but AH didn't get the message.

Sad, but pretty much true --- if you think reading about these endlessly recycled topics, pity the poor bastards charged with rewriting and revisiting these threadbare topics over and over again. At least with "hook and bullet" mags, there is occasionally real "news" to report. "Gun writers" are pretty much dependent on new product developments --- the laws of physics as pertains to guns &tc. having been pretty widely disseminated, and in the public domain, and the details and particulars and history of most firearms being abundantly and easily available from sources such as this very forum. Our member, John Marshall, does an excellent job of illuminating and examining unusual and historically interesting firearms for example, with a "standing order" so to speak, from the Dillon's Blue Press.

But, the working freelancer trying to sell a new and refreshing angle to a gun mag is faced with daunting established competition, little of anything new to report, and almost no chance of "scooping" anything of general interest.

Don't expect this to change. The real, dynamic, gun-related stories are in the political realm. Most all else is old news, and boring...

Beaver · Jan 24, 2011

I still subscribe to "Handloader/Rifle". To me, they are more like textbooks than gun mags. My handloader collection is very valuable to me. I use them constantly. I quit G&A after Col. Cooper died.

Gun 4 Fun · Jan 24, 2011

Beaver said:
I still subscribe to "Handloader/Rifle". To me, they are more like textbooks than gun mags. My handloader collection is very valuable to me. I use them constantly. I quit G&A after Col. Cooper died.

+1000
I have had subscriptions to them all, and I subcribed to many of them for an awful lot of years. Now days, the new writers just plain suck, and the magazines are nothing more than a commercial for all the crap inside.

Handloader and Rifle are the two exceptions. They do say so when a gun is less then advertised, and I like that. More real info in those two magazines in one month, than in all the others combined for an entire year.

lagavulin62 · Jan 24, 2011

Kstoneking said:
If you have a lap top you're covered for reading material even whilst on the throne!

Kenny

something about that part of my house will not permit a connection, even with the door open. if I could mount my throne just outside the door I'd be all set.

BruceHMX · Jan 24, 2011

I have all my gun mag's from the early to mid 70's. To include some really far out stuff from Soldier of Fortune. Chuck Taylor, Elmer Keith, Dave Arnold, Dave Hetzler, Jack Lott, Jan Libourel, Garry James to name a few. Some are still with us. Anyone remember Myron Fass?? Man that guy was out there. But to a kid at 12 in the 70's reading a cheap gun mag where this fat bald guy pulling down with a Model 37 after watching the Seven Up's. I love my gun mag's. Only one's I buy now are the Surplus Series when I see them. My son loves them and what the hell why not corrupt him. lol He has a stack of them by the john. There is one more writer I cannot remember but I loved his stuff. Small guy who wore a cowboy hat, lot's of stuff on reloading, I'll dig into my stuff. I always liked reading his stuff.

Gun 4 Fun · Jan 24, 2011

Are you refering to Bob Milek? He was with G&A in the '80's and early '90's until his death. Good man.

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