Gun Magazines in Print. Do You Still Read Them?

[IJ1981]

Digital has taken over much of the world.Many of us still want to relax with a good paperback or print magazine in our hands.

Here are the top selling firearms magazines in America.

Tell us why you still love and extoll them!

 

[Glockpride]

Shouldn’t this poll’s options be just ‘yes’ or ‘no’ based upon the thread title?

 

[Bazoo]

I still read Handloader. I don't subscribe to the others, but if I happen across any of them second hand, I will read them.

 

[jmorris]

I was reading one just the other day.

 

[Taurus 617 CCW]

I still have a couple of print magazines on subscription. Handloader and Shooting Illustrated as well at the Thompson Collector Association One Good Shot magazine. There is something satisfying about thumbing through a paper copy you don’t get with an online version.

 

[Ironicaintit]

not really anymore. My favorite was always Shotgun News

 

[Bazoo]

I have about 30 Gun Digest and Guns & Ammo annuals. I haven't read all of them yet, but I'm working on them. I ran across some old fishing magazines in a box from the 90-2000s and spent several days reading those over the winter.

 

[22250Rem]

I still subscribe to "Guns & Ammo", "Shooting Times", "American Hand Gunner", "Handloader", & "Rifle" magazines. Along with the "American Rifleman" magazine that the N.R.A. sends me for being an endowment member.

 

[IJ1981]

Shouldn’t this poll’s options be just ‘yes’ or ‘no’ based upon the thread title?

You will always find a downside with any poll.

 

[trackskippy]

American Handgunner is the only one I still get, that I actually pay for. Guns and Hangunner send me mags now and again, and I don't know why, as I didn't order them, but I'll flip through them if they want to send them.

Over the years, I probably had subscriptions to most of them at some point, but SGN and Gun List were two I always got up until they basically faded away with the internet taking off. Both sucked a LOT of money out of my wallet over the decades. Not that Im bitchin'.

 

[Rockrivr1]

Everything is online nowadays so no need to clutter up the house with magazines.

I do though miss the old Shotgun News from yesteryear.

 

[IJ1981]

Guns Magizine is my all and being.
Great writers and graphics.
They have covered the scene since 1955.,,,,I have

All hail these guys for 60 years.!

 

[allisd17]

I get American Rifleman but usually just thumb through it. Milsurps are my only shooting passion nowadays, and the magazine only occasionally has an article on one.

 

[AlexanderA]

I get American Rifleman but usually just thumb through it.

The Rifleman is the only gun publication I get, but that's only because of my NRA life membership. I scan it, and then immediately it goes in the trash. The editorial / political content often makes me angry.

 

[PapaG]

American Handgunner(not often, now), Handloader, Rifle, Am Rifleman (only because I'm a Benefactor member), and Backwoodsman.

 

[BobABQ]

I did at one time but not anymore. I rarely find any article in them that I want to read. Especially for the cost of magazines anymore.

 

[GEM]

No, unless they talk about me. LOL - many times. Reality - not really. I get the gun game organization mags as part of membership and they have little content. Somebody shooting a match with some fancy gun. Yawn!

 

[.308 Norma]

I'm often not sure of which gun magazine I'm thumbing through at the grocery store while my wife is trying to figure out how to save a nickel on a couple of cans of green beans, but yeah, I "read" some, or a few of them. And, if I actually buy a gun magazine, it gets left in one of our doctor's or dentist's offices when I'm through with it - even an old gun magazine that I've already read once is more interesting than "Golf Digest" or "People" as far as I'm concerned.

 

[CapnMac]

Your Poll omitted "None" and/or "None of the above." Which would have been my vote.

I still read SAR, just online, and that's about it.

 

[Ignition Override]

"Do you still read them?" No.

And the only magazines I ever looked at featured milsurp rifles.

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

We get both American Rifleman and Shooting Illustrated since we live with my son and family. I also get Shooting Times. As a voracious reader, I normally read most articles. That also includes my car magazines, Hagerty and Hemmings.

 

[Riomouse911]

I subscribe to almost all of them. For many years they were tax write offs as I would use the info learned at work, so I did multi-year subscriptions. I still like reading the articles, seeing the pictures, etc. even after I retired. (Of course most new handguns I won’t see in Ca for years, if at all, so many new handgun articles I just skim over.

Stay safe.

 

[tark]

I regularly read whatever my barber has on the table. Usually Guns & Ammo or Shooting Times. I like mostly C&R guns so there aren't that many articles in most of the mags to suit me. If anybody knows of a gun rag that focuses mostly on those, please post a name or a link.

 

[conan32120]

Do I read and do I subscribe to are two different things. I browse the magazine racks and always find one to interest me and ease the wait in the doctors office. I usually leave them there when I leave lol. I'm an old paranoid guy and dont trust that subscriptions arent tracked

 

[sparkyv]

Nope.

I do receive an NRA publication, but usually just recycle it. Most everything I need to read is on the interwebs or specialized books.