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IMO, that has been the case for most of that genre for a couple of decades. I gave up on them in the late '80s.Todays gun rags are just that. Crap.
IMO, that has been the case for most of that genre for a couple of decades. I gave up on them in the late '80s.Todays gun rags are just that. Crap.
I quit reading them 15 years ago. I hate them for what they don't say as much as for what they do.
I stopped reading them several years ago when two writers in two different stories complained about their "old eyes" and how hard it was to see the sights. What, aren't there some young guys who can write about guns?
+1. I also enjoy stuff from John Taffin, and yes, Duke.The Ayoob and John Connor pieces are worth the cost of the magazines.
I follow Ayoob's articles in an online magazine - http://www.backwoodshome.com/author_index.htmlThe Ayoob and John Connor pieces are worth the cost of the magazines.
Online e-books/pdfs like one by Glen Fryxell provides comprehensive information that can be readily viewed on a tablet instead of bookshelf full of books (and yes, you will catch me sitting on the toilet viewing shooting related forums/pdfs on my tablet ) - http://www.lasc.us/Fryxell_Book_Contents.htmIf nothing else, its good gun porn when on the crapper.
That is true of virtually all magazines and newspapers and all network television programming.Posted by BSA1: I quit reading Shooting Times, Guns and Ammo, Guns and all the other mags years ago after I realized that Gun magazines publication costs are paid for by advertisers. If they upset the advertisers with critical / bad reviews of their guns / products they will pull their advertising from that company.
It’s true of those local news stations and their “investigators” as well. Your local news may have a team of investigative reporters (one of ours is called The Problem Solvers) that will supposedly investigate local businesses that rip off consumers. Try calling them about one of their advertisers and you’ll never get a response, no matter how great the injustice or how much proof you have that they ripped you off.I quit reading Shooting Times, Guns and Ammo, Guns and all the other mags years ago after I realized that Gun magazines publication costs are paid for by advertisers. If they upset the advertisers with critical / bad reviews of their guns / products they will pull their advertising from that company.
+1 on that! I kept my AR from the 1970s; while not done by name writers, the staff who wrote the articles had things to say. All they say in it now is that "the liberals are coming for you." I miss articles like Settled Land Varmint Hunting," that didn't try to sell me a particular manufacturer, but rather sell me on the concept of shooting 22 Mag and 22 Hornet among farms so as not to alarm the populace.dogrunner: One that I'd really like to see regain it's legitimacy is the American Rifleman.........for those that haven't had the opportunity to see some of the stuff from the 30's thru the mid 50's I'd strongly recommend a look see. Real data from REAL writers.
That is great news. Just keep them out of Arizona zones 2B, 20A, and 31It is on the rise actually. Especially among women.
I'm curious, Sam, does that number take into account population growth? Last time I checked the population clock ( http://www.census.gov/popclock/ ) it was at 318 million, so I'm wondering if that figure is simply a numerical increase, or an increase based on the percentage of our current population. I, too, was under the impression that hunting was experiencing a slight decline.It is on the rise actually. Especially among women.
Things have changed but the type of men have really changed . Most media are sellouts to the highest bidder as our leaders pastors generals etc. The media played a big role getting us into Iraq so don't count them out. Ross Seyfried was the best writer I ever read. A wimpy girly boy like david Fortier gets me sickStop and think for a moment.
The print media once played a major role in our society. We got our daily news from major newspapers, and many cities had two of them; there were almost half a dozen weekly news magazines; there were magazines for homemakers, hunters, fisherman, model airplane enthusiasts, shooters, amateur photographers, amateur builders, auto enthusiasts, and on and on.
There was a lot of demand for the print media, and to meet that demand there was a large, varied industry, that industry was funded in large part by advertising, and that industry provided livelihoods for a large number of reporters and writers.
All of the great writers of old are dead and gone, and only a very few of them have been replaced by people from a new generation. Why? The industry is a thing of the past. Why? The demand is gone. Why? New technology has largely replaced the printing press.
Are there writers as great as Jack O'Connor? Maybe, maybe not, but if there are, does anyone think for a moment that their employers would have a business reason to fund hunts with the leaders of foreign governments, as one remembers with Jack?
No, of course not.
Want to know what's going on today? Well, if Newsweek and Life Magazine were still printed, you wouldn't wait for them, would you?
Want to know about the latest about auto pistols, or automobiles? You can find out before the coffee has finished brewing, and by the way, you can brew coffee more quickly today, too.
The world has changed. There is no way for dozens of magazine authors, the thousands of newspaper reporters, and the hundreds of photojournalists to make a living in those professions today.
There were quite a few gun magazines, and there were even more "outdoor" magazines, each with its own gun editor. Now there are very few indeed.
I saw an ad for a new auto pistol in a recent and very thin edition of The American Rifleman. That's all there was on it --one small ad. But it caught my interest, and I was able to find out all I wanted to know very quickly without waiting for a magazine article about it.
Welcome to the new world. It is a world largely without major newspapers, with few magazines, and therefore, without many well known writers. If you haven't noticed, it is also a world without service station road maps.
Things have changed.
I'm curious, Sam, does that number take into account population growth?