Guns & Ammo magazine?

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Since I've been doing all these Google searches on semi-automatic handguns I'm interested in I keep getting pop ups offering me Guns & Ammo magazine for $9 for one year now I read it years ago but I got rid of most of my magazines do you guys still read it is it worthwhile and after that one year I wonder what the price will go to?
 
For me, I won't subscribe to any gun magazine now a days. 2/3 rds of the pages are full of ads, and gun reviews are very thin. I used to get the Shotgun News, (Now known as Firearms News) fairly often. But its not the same like it was years ago. Besides, searching and finding gun articles online is far easier and cost a lot less.

Just my two cents.
 
I’ve been getting G&A for years and still enjoy it. The price for a years subscription is hardly noticeable, especially when you go to the two or three year package. Sometimes it’s nice to see new stuff that’s being introduced and there really are some decent articles in it. I haven’t paid more than $12 for a year since I’ve had it and that was probably quite a few years ago.
 
The only magazineI used to take was Wolfe Pub 'Rifle' and 'Handloading' electronically, but they changed the format where you can no longer download and save the whole issue. Now you can only download EACH article/column one at a time. I called to see if there was a way and they said no. Renewal was in 2 months so I told them to cancel because of this, and I wasn't happy. The lady said she had gotten a lot of complaints. There may be an article I'm not interested in now, but later I am. If I hadn't downloaded it at the time it's lost, and I won't pay for back articles.

They do still have good articles, and if there is a good issue, I'll get the whole parer copy at the news stand.
 
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Guns and Ammo used to be the premier gun magazine. I have hundreds if not over a thousand gun periodicals, from the '50s up into the '90s. Guns, Shooting Times, Gunsport, Gun World, Gunlist, Shotgun News and others.Only one I get now is The American Rifleman, thanks to a lifetime subscription in 1967.
How can a guy get rid of them? Is there a market for old gun magazines? I haven't looked at any of them this century and they take up a lot of space.
 
I still get Guns and Ammo. I've subscribed to tht mag since the mid 1980s.

A great deal has changed in the world since that time, and much has changed in the magazine also.

For one, I seldom read articles about 1911 clone pistols in the mag these days. Also, the gun and gear reviews are not only very short, but are hardly ever negative. Even so, I do read the mag, and consider it worth the few bucks it costs.

I still like reading a physical piece of paper and, as stated earlier, the cost of the sub is minimal. I just renewed for a couple years.
 
I used to subscribe to Guns & Ammo and sporadically renewed a few times but I tired of repetitiousness and no longer subscribe.
 
petavey

I was much the same way years ago with subscriptions to Guns and Ammo, Shooting Times, Guns, American Handgunner, Gun World, Combat Handguns, SWAT, Soldier of Fortune, American Rifleman, and Shotgun News. So one day I decided to start going through them (took quite awhile doing a few boxes at a time), and if they had something in them that interested me, I would save it. The rest I boxed up and gave them to a friend of mine who loved to read anything about guns but couldn't afford magazines.

Then when I moved a few years ago I went through my remaining magazines and got rid of a bunch more. Nowadays I don't subscribe to any of them and only on a rare occasion will I go to Barnes and Noble to look for something like Small Arms Review and buy it if there's something in it worth having.
 
bannockburn said:
petavey

I was much the same way years ago with subscriptions to Guns and Ammo, Shooting Times, Guns, American Handgunner, Gun World, Combat Handguns, SWAT, Soldier of Fortune, American Rifleman, and Shotgun News. So one day I decided to start going through them (took quite awhile doing a few boxes at a time), and if they had something in them that interested me, I would save it. The rest I boxed up and gave them to a friend of mine who loved to read anything about guns but couldn't afford magazines.

Then when I moved a few years ago I went through my remaining magazines and got rid of a bunch more. Nowadays I don't subscribe to any of them and only on a rare occasion will I go to Barnes and Noble to look for something like Small Arms Review and buy it if there's something in it worth having.
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I know just what you mean used magazines are pretty much useless I kept playboy for years and then found out I couldn't give them away the pictures are free on the internet.that "I read Playboy for the Articles" BS did anyone ever believe that? As for used gun magazines on another thread we were talking about gun shows maybe you could sell them for a quarter a piece to some collector at a gun show ?
 
I dropped Shooting Times, but still get Guns and Ammo. G&A has fine articles on Old/Military/Collectable guns that I like to read about. They also answer questions from the subscribers about the value and history of their guns. "Velly Intellesting" as the Oberleutnant used to say.
You can't beat the price at $9
 
I've saved a pile of my favorite G&A magazines over the decades, but anything they currently print I've already read elsewhere on the internet. I don't know if Jim Bequette is still in the management of the organization but I wrote a number of editors in 2013/2014 that they would never see a dime of my money as long as his name appears anywhere in the masthead.
Regardless... I see nothing new or informative when I thumb through the magazine on the racks. Patrick Sweeny is sharp and informative as is Craig Boddington... but they aren't enough to solicit a check from me.
 
Thanks for the help like H&R said it's only $9 think I'll give it a try for one year if I don't like it I can drop it
 
I subscribe to many of them, but I also write them off as an expense so it isn’t a big deal.

I still prefer to hold the magazines in hand rather than read it off my computers, call me old fashioned.

Stay safe.
 
As part of my NRA subscription I receive Shooting Illustrated. It offers a lot of great articles and many reviews. It seems to satisfy my thirst for info.
 
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