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.

 

[batex]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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