Very mixed up American Riflemen magazine!

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Received my December 2019 issue yesterday and think someone/s was drunk when they set up the issue to go out. It says it contains 80 pages, possibly true did not count them individually.

What I do have is duplicates of many of the pages, up to and including full articles. One example I will give you is I have 2 copies of "In Pursuit of the perfect Magnum Hornadys 300PRC."

Anyone else get this? I would assume that most anyone in my general state area all magazines come from the same publisher run.

Note my wife's Freedom magazine came in also and that one was normal.
 
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Many things have been lacking about the American Rifleman the last 20 years!

Mine hasn't arrived yet, but these type of errors sound more like a printing problem than an editorial staff problem.

Ivan
 
Ivan the Butcher said:
Many things have been lacking about the American Rifleman the last 20 years!

Mine hasn't arrived yet, but these type of errors sound more like a printing problem than an editorial staff problem.

Ivan
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Oh I totally agree with that, What I meant by a publisher run is many magazines are printed in different locations. If that is still true, a good bet anything that came from that printing plant will be messed up unless they found it later in the run and fixed it.

With the amount of people on this forum I seriously doubt I got the only messed up issue. We shall see!
 
After a quick thumb thru and reading the Taurus article; no problems I'm aware of.....Will look closer now that its mentioned.
 
Mine was messed up also. 3 copies of the 300 PRC article and missing all the other stories.
 
Ivan the Butcher said:
Many things have been lacking about the American Rifleman the last 20 years!

Mine hasn't arrived yet, but these type of errors sound more like a printing problem than an editorial staff problem.

Ivan
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Not so much a printing problem, but certainly a bindery problem, post printing.

I worked over 20 years for a music publisher, but got my start printing Hustler magazine. The process is the same no matter what goes on the page. Normally you print 16 pages at the time, called a 'signature' and if those get mixed up, or doubled on the binding machine, errors happen.

But, the finished books are usually checked very carefully while setting up and during the run for just this sort of thing. I doubt if it's a one off, but certainly a very limited number. Once found, bad copies would be trashed and this one copy escaped the trash bin.

Rob
 
wetdog1911 said:
Not so much a printing problem, but certainly a bindery problem, post printing.

I worked over 20 years for a music publisher, but got my start printing Hustler magazine. The process is the same no matter what goes on the page. Normally you print 16 pages at the time, called a 'signature' and if those get mixed up, or doubled on the binding machine, errors happen.

But, the finished books are usually checked very carefully while setting up and during the run for just this sort of thing. I doubt if it's a one off, but certainly a very limited number. Once found, bad copies would be trashed and this one copy escaped the trash bin.

Rob
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I might have a collector item here!:D To be truthful I would rather have a unfired RM!
 
NYlakesider said:
I might have a collector item here!:D To be truthful I would rather have a unfired RM!
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Well, you do.:D

Had something similar happen to me once with a Naval Warfare French Magazine, that I don't subscribe, but buy on news stands whenever there are articles that interest me. I went to their page and wrote them what happened. They wrote back asking for my address, and a few days later I received another one.

Edit. So now I have 2 of them, a perfectly good one. And a collector piece.:D

Edit 2. First I went back to news stand to see if I could swap it with a good one, if they had any. But my copy was the only one they had.
 
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Mine was fine, about choked when read Jason Ouimet's article stating the NRA is non-partisan. I have 2-3 of the old 1930's era American Rifleman. The difference is like night & day, all informative articles, no disparaging people, or whining for money, with a classifieds section which apparently was very popular with all the ads for individuals looking to buy, sell & trade.
 
Getting the printed pages of one edition screwed up is a very insignificant matter in comparison with what the magazine has become since the days of good editors like Ron Keysor and Ken Warner. They did away with the technical staff years ago when they had talented and creative experts and writers like C. E. Harris, Robert Sears, and others. Magazine content has suffered considerably as a result.

How many really want to read about a couple of new Taurus pistols that don't shoot particularly well?
 
Mine is fine. I flip through mine each month and rarely read more than one article. It's not a horrible magazine, but if I'm sitting back to read, I have many better choices lying about.

(Mine was published as intended)
 
wetdog1911 said:
Not so much a printing problem, but certainly a bindery problem, post printing.

I worked over 20 years for a music publisher, but got my start printing Hustler magazine. The process is the same no matter what goes on the page.

But, the finished books are usually checked very carefully while setting up and during the run for just this sort of thing.

Rob
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So riddle me this..... who spilt the printers glue on the best pages?:eek:
 
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