Combat Handguns Going Away

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In case anybody's interested, the publisher of Combat Handguns magazine is going out of business:

Harris Pubs

I really enjoyed Combat Handguns over the years. Not being twelve (or possessing an equivalent maturity), I don't need movement and bright colors to pay attention to something.

Illiteracy marches on...
 
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I'm pretty sure the wife just renewed the subscription. :eek:

Oh well... maybe my August 2016 issue with an Uzi on the cover will be a collectors item. I'd be willing to sell for $100 to a lucky forum member. :D:D:D
 
That is too bad. Ironically I think that I started reading it when I was about twelve.
I was much older, probably an Army officer by then.

In fact, I'd always toyed with sending in an account of my self-defense against a carjacking, using an HK-93, while traveling with a friend from Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis to Ft. Knox in the '80s.
 
I was much older, probably an Army officer by then.

In fact, I'd always toyed with sending in an account of my self-defense against a carjacking, using an HK-93, while traveling with a friend from Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis to Ft. Knox in the '80s.

Do tell us here
 
Do tell us here

Exactly what I was thinking. Do tell.
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I'm pretty sure the wife just renewed the subscription. :eek:

Oh well... maybe my August 2016 issue with an Uzi on the cover will be a collectors item. I'd be willing to sell for $100 to a lucky forum member. :D:D:D

Hey Phil, you should refresh your reading of the forum rules! I'm sure you know which section?? 😝 😜 😗 😙

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As stated........... "wood chip" based publications are a thing of the past....... loved those magazines in the 80s and 90s....... haven't bought one since..............


................................(lets see; joined here in 05).............

since 06...ya 06!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I think it was a better magazine before they went to the all color format. there was better articles and the color format made it hard to read.
 
Whats a magazine? Oh, those old paper and ink things. Whats next, replacing revolvers with some new fancy design. That will never happen.
 
Their, "Tactical Knives" folded some time ago. I felt it was too oriented toward servicing advertisers. But they occasionally had a feature on something really good, like Fallkniven products. I've plugged those in knife titles, myself, but they deserve it. www.fallkniven.com Work all the buttons of any interest. I think you'll be impressed. That brand doesn't receive the patronage of the King of Sweden for nothing!

Their boxes carry the King's Royal Warrant of Appointment as knife purveyors to the Crown and to the Royal Swedish Air Force, which issues their F-1 model to pilots as a survival knife.
You've probably seen pics of their fighters, like the Saab Draken and the Grifon. In addition to Sweden, South Africa and probably other nations use the Grifon.

I'll miss, CH. I sold them only a personal experience item or two, but they paid either $50 or $100 for those; I forget which.

CMort, you should have sent in your account, although it was accomplished with a rifle. Like others here, I'd like to know what happened. Most defense adventures never see print, and the public and the liberal media never realize how often guns save honest men's lives.

I think a crucial reason why gun magazines fail is that they are too oriented toward advertisers. No more general articles like Skelton and others used to write for, "Shooting Times." Massad Ayoob's stories about gunfights and the aftermath are a refreshing exception from the reviews of guns that are usually praised by the writers who minimize any flaws.
 
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Harris Publications going out of business? I'm sorry for all the people who'll lose their jobs. Combat Handguns isn't their only publication.

But no more Combat Handguns?
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What a loss, huh? How will we survive? One less magazine in the stack next to the commode, I reckon. I guess we'll will have to make do with Special Weapons, Tactical Weapons, Guns & Weapons, Handguns, Shooting Times, Guns, Gun Tests, Guns & Ammo, and maybe even Garden & Gun. No offense if I left out your favorite niche publication.

Combat Handguns is just another victim of the sad but continuing Print Media Extinction.
 
As stated..."wood chip" based publications are a thing of the past...

No, they aren't yet, but more are falling by the wayside. People said the same thing about hard copy books when things like e-books, e-readers, and iPads and Kindles came along, but it hasn't happened yet, either. That'll be a long time before it happens, if it ever does. It won't happen in my lifetime, I know that.

The gun press is a competitive field. You see so many titles on the shelves, niche magazines that all look the same, and publish the same type of articles and "tests" over and over.

The field is oversaturated and for the most part, boring.
 
I never heard of Combat Handguns,but I get my 1st Marine Old Breed News & 3rd Marine Caltrap,every three months.
 
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