Guns & Ammo

[w9kcj]

I received my invoice (renewal) to Guns & Ammo and was about to send a check for the $16.97 one-year subscription. Something told me to do it on line. I go to their site and low and behold I get two years for $14.70! So if you need to renew, do it on line.
Norm

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

In the G&A mailer.... I was "selected" ... to receive 2yrs at $15.00 or 1yr at $14.

I subscribe to several gun magazines. With each monthly issue I usually get a notice that this is my last issue....

 

[ladder13]

I let my American Handgunner subsription expire about 10 years ago. They kept sending magazines even after I told them multiple times that I wasn't a paid subscriber. Got another one a couple weeks ago.

 

[diamonback68]

Gun magazines are a total waste of money. Same articles year after year. Many, but not all are even inaccurate.
You can learn more and get better information here on the forum........FREE (well almost).

 

[MKT]

Shoot, I just got a G&A renewal form in the mail too. Funny thing is I haven't had a subscription to G&A for well over 10 years, in fact it has been since well before we moved into our current house.

I don't think I'll be renewing anytime soon.

 

[ladder13]

Gun magazines are a total waste of money. Same articles year after year. Many, but not all are even inaccurate.
You can learn more and get better information here on the forum........FREE (well almost).

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.

 

[mkk41]

It probably came from a third party 'subscription service' , not from the publishers of G&A. I get them all the time. Unless it came from Palm Coast , FL , it's from a service.

 

[Rule3]

I canceled all of mine. They are all on line now for free but as mentioned, not much to read. Every gun is wonderful. I like the pictures (tactical socks)and see what new creations they have thought up

Still get the NRA American Rifleman

 

[w9kcj]

Gives me reading material for the throne room !

 

[Kstoneking]

Gives me reading material for the throne room !

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

Kenny

 

[DOEBOY1]

My wife called me a few years back furious, soon after our second child was born. I'm guessing hormones, but anyway she was beside herself to find out if it was me or one of my friends that had sent me an invitaion to subscribe to playboy. So the fight was on. It was tense for a few minutes on the phone with me pleading my case and her feeling cheeted on. Well anyway she said there was some half naked chick on the postcard that she would never ever let into her house and was addressed to Sharron. Well g&a were the only ones to send me mail with my name spelled wrong. So after I got her calmed down and told her about this she appologized and told me she loved me and was about to hang up but I told her I had one more question " what was the half naked chick wearing?" She always said I always carry things one step too far. After all she did ruin my cheesy steak burrito. Doeboy

 

[truckemup97]

'Bout the only gun mag I like is Shotgun News. I buy one about once a year. I just want to read the ads, and they don't change often, so that's enough for me.

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

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.

+1. I stopped reading them long ago. A lot of that was due to the internet. Many gun rags seems to be nothing but advertisements and a very few short articles. In the years I read them (and we are talking several different magazines here) I only seen negative reviews rarely. Most were glowing "how-great-this-rifle/pistol/etc is" . When I grew up, the same firearms so rampantly praised I found were of the kind of thing one flushes down the porcelen (sic...I'm tired) convieniece in the morning. (Any of you ever heard of an L.E.S. M18 9mm pistol?...didn't think so)

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Oh Yeah; Have had a bunch thru my hands but now it's all old rewrite stuff. I remember the .264 Win. Mag. as the greatest thing since sliced bread. Gun mags write whatever is popular including the short mags. Lets see how they turn out. I will get my info here.

 

[whitecoyote]

My wife called me a few years back furious, soon after our second child was born. I'm guessing hormones, but anyway she was beside herself to find out if it was me or one of my friends that had sent me an invitaion to subscribe to playboy. So the fight was on. It was tense for a few minutes on the phone with me pleading my case and her feeling cheeted on. Well anyway she said there was some half naked chick on the postcard that she would never ever let into her house and was addressed to Sharron. Well g&a were the only ones to send me mail with my name spelled wrong. So after I got her calmed down and told her about this she appologized and told me she loved me and was about to hang up but I told her I had one more question " what was the half naked chick wearing?" She always said I always carry things one step too far. After all she did ruin my cheesy steak burrito. Doeboy

And I complained when my Wife gave me a subscription to Playboy for my Birthday, when I asked for a subscription to Guns & Ammo.

 

[thomp45acp]

Anyone ever seen in G&A at any point they say something bad about a gun in a review? And how about it seems 2/3 issues has some sort of 1911 on the cover. Anyone else notice?

 

[JcMack]

If you can't say anything good, don't say anything say I. So I won't say anything about gun magazines..

 

[CajunBass]

I hear the "they never write a bad review" complaint all the time. But then I've never had a "bad" gun so I can't say they're wrong.

I still enjoy gun mags. I don't suscribe to them anymore, but will pick one up from time to time. They still take me back to a county boy who'd never seen a handgun except on those glossy covers and to who a walk up the creek out back as as much an adventure as a Safari to Africa.

I sure miss Elmer, Jack, Bill, Skeeter, Jim....and so on though.

 

[David LaPell]

About the only magazines I read on a regular basis are Fur-Fish-Game, Handloader, and Backwoodsman. I haven't bought or read Guns & Ammo in about two or three years. Once in a while I will buy an odd magazine like Guns of the Old West or something like that, but rarely. I have alot of old American Rifleman's from the 60's, 70's and 80's I picked up at a yard sale last year for $20. I find some old gun mags here and there when at the gun shows, but usually just for the old ads.

 

[oldman45]

My thoughts on magazines is simple. They have some good articles I find helpful. The reviews are mostly lies that the writer needed to insert so someone might buy the product they are promoting.

The magazines are over priced and mostly filled with advertising. Well over 75% of the space in a magazine is paid advertising and then the reviews may as well be a paid advertisement.

I still subscribe to a few, including some adult magazines because they have some educational and informative articles as well.