I used to stay up late at night reading Shotgun News as a kid.
Yep it came so often, I never had time to go all the way through an issue before the next showed up. Bought a lot of guns through that as well as a few distributors' paper catalogs - Nationwide Sports, Buckeye Sports, Jerry's, Ellett brothers and a host of others - mail off the FFL copy and a MO and wait for it to show up.NIGHTLORD40K
Me too only I had to wait til my older brother was done reading it because the subscription was in his name! I seem to recall it came three times a month and while I was too young to order anything from an FFL I loved to look at all the ads for Army surplus stuff, especially if it came from Europe. Those were the days!
My Dad subscribed to Shotgun News...
I do recall paging through those in the Eighties.
Are they still in print?
My dad gets them, not bad just about the same as the old ones. Some good articles to.Shotgun News was rebranded as Firearms News in 2015. Apparently they still publish 30 magazines a year. I am tempted to subscribe.
I used to learn a lot from the old Shotgun News and the slew of older gun enthusiasts I worked with back in the 90’s as we discussed various ads and guns for sale in that magazine.
My dad gets them, not bad just about the same as the old ones. Some good articles to.
My Dad subscribed to Shotgun News...
I do recall paging through those in the Eighties.
Are they still in print?
My dad gets them, not bad just about the same as the old ones. Some good articles to.
Start of the AWB then with perfect example why it was so dumb. Just look at all those yucky post-ban neutered rifles without bayonets, flash hiders, or normal pistol grips. As cheap as many items look now due to inflation, step back a couple years to 1992/3 would show those 1995 prices were inflated LOL!My wife was going through some old boxes and she handed me an old Shotgun News from December 1995.
Wow! Some of the prices of things surprised me. I had forgotten how good and how bad some of the prices were 25 years ago.
Here are some photos of a few pages.
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Well, cheaper to manufacturer. Not necessarily better.Many of the pistol designs have been discarded as better polymer ones have overtaken the market.
I would argue a current generation G19 or G23 are better designs than a SW5946 9mm or SW4006 popular with police departments back then. Definitely take any duty sized polymer (other than HP) over the old Ruger P-series. Those things ate whatever you fed them but weighed a ton!Well, cheaper to manufacturer. Not necessarily better.