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...

That is too bad. Ironically I think that I started reading it when I was about twelve.

I'm pretty sure the wife just renewed the subscription.

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.

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

Aww man...I love that magazine. Just started my subscription ~4 months ago.

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Exactly what I was thinking. Do tell.

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

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Always was my favorite publication in the late 80s and up.

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.

Thank God I didn't renew my subscription! Thank you for the info!

Whats a magazine? Oh, those old paper and ink things. Whats next, replacing revolvers with some new fancy design. That will never happen.

It's a clip-like thing you put bullet in to.

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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.

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? 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 Dr. Egon Spengler first noted in 1984:

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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 was only reading the articles, I was not looking at those beauties

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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I chat occasionally with the vendor who delivers magazines (not just gun mags) to my local supermarket. He says magazines are a dying business...

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Rifle and Handloader magazines years back could always be counted on as having real gunsmithing articles in their monthly issues. American Rifleman magazine as put out by the NRA was the same. Now except for the machinists magazines put out by the Village Press you rarely see a build or anything like that. You'll see more builds or gunsmithing articles on the online forums. Frank

So, you don't much mind that they went from a full 12 issues a year to just ten? And sub. prices didn't change.

I gather that we are no longer discussing, Combat Handguns?

Gentlemen, say what you will, but I will miss the print magazines and "real" books. I hate the fact that Harris is closing ,I subscribed to three or four of their gun mags and enjoyed everyone, some months more than others, but enjoyed none the less. I am also sad to see their people losing their jobs. The only thing constant in our lives ,unfortunately, is change.

I like gun magazines. It's all part of the hobby. Just like motorcycles. Subscriptions are usually a dollar or two per issue... cheap entertainment and a way to keep current even though at times I feel like I'm laughably operating in the past.

I like this web site.

I like Forgotten Weapons, Peashooter85 and a number of other firearms related blogs.

I've recently been watching C&RSenal's WWI firearms YouTube videos.

NONE of them is a BOOK, much less a Collector Grade book.

There's NO website that can hold a candle to a copy of "The Devil's Paintbrush"... or even a classic issue of "Small Arms Review".

Oh, and the ransomware hasn't been written that can encrypt my first copy of "Small Arms of the World"...

No darn it why!!!!!!!! I am going to miss their magazine guns of the old west. this really stinks!!!

Chin up gents. They said vinyl records were a thing of the past. Nope, they sand ''dumb'' cell phones and home landlines, are making come-backs. Just the ''dumb'' cellphone sales from last year alone, were over $7 billion dollars. This mag may be done but, someone else will pick up and run with the ball.

Print isn't dead and I don't support electronic ''print'' material.

Chin up gents. They said vinyl records were a thing of the past. Nope, they and ''dumb'' cell phones and home landlines, are making come-backs. Just the ''dumb'' cellphone sales from last year alone, were over $7 billion dollars. This mag may be done but, someone else will pick up and run with the ball.

Print isn't dead and I don't support electronic ''print'' material.