Has this ever happened to you?

[Zen21Tao]

Have you every looked through an old gun magazine and found some article or other form of information that wasn’t of importance to you in the recent past but now has some meaningfulness to it?

Today I was looking through a few old gun magazines I borrowed from a friend about a year ago and found in them an article on the Glock 20/29, an article on the Kimber Rimfire Target, an article on the Springfield “loaded” 1911, and various valuable reloading data. When I originally borrowed the magazines over a year ago I had absolutely no intention of buying a Glock of any kind as I’m not a big fan of Glock. But since then I wanted to get a concealable 10mm and felt that tempering my dislike of Glock and buying a G29 was the way to go. Also, I had no intentions of getting a Kimber Rimfire Target. Actually, I was dead set on just getting a .22 upper for an existing 1911 I had until I found a great deal on the Kimber in a local gun shop. Just like the Kimber, the only reason I bought the Springfield was a good friend needed money for college so he made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. And as for the reloading data, I just got into reloading about 3 months ago so a year ago I didn’t give reloading data as much as a second thought let alone a decent read. When I gave these magazines a re-read I was amazed at the valuable info in them that was meaningless to me only just a few months to a year earlier.

 

[PlayboyPenguin]

Pretty much all of them are like that to me these days. It used to be I would just pick up a gun mag and look at the pretty pics while killing time at a bookstore but now I go back and actually read the old articles and pay attention.

 

[ball3006]

I kinda did the opposite....

when I got my C&R license, I dug out the past 20 years worth of American Rifleman and looked in the annual index of each year to find all the C&R gun articles..........now, I just get conned into buying something from other members of the forums I log on to........chris3:banghead: = SWMBO

 

[sm]

Yes.

I have some Field & Stream issues from the year I was born - 1955

Understand I have not had a 'script to F&S since Brister no longer wrote any articles and been too many years since I had a 'script to any other magazine, firearm related or not.

I do peruse an issue from time to time if given one, or in a waiting room.

I was not interested in the 6mm vs .243 heated discussions in the '55 issue of F&S, nor was I interested in Conservation vs Hunters heated discussions, or many other heated discussions in regard to shotshellls fishing line, how to dress to hunt what species ...in '55.

Back then I was a kid, I was raised a certain way - besides I more interested in Ruark, Corey Ford, and Tarpley's tips and...and the pictures.

We only had what we had , and learned to use the tools with correct basic fundamentals.

I get bigger and barbershop arguements, heated discussions around campfires, you name it.

Then the Internet comes of age.

I will soon turn 51 , and you know what, folks still argue the 6mm vs .243, suggest lighter fishing line for clear water for crappies, and the size of the brass does not mean a hill of beans as to what a shotshell will do. One can still use lipstick on a Johnson Spoon lure to change how it is perceived in water to a fish. I still read Brister, Ruark and other authors from back then.

The more things change - the more they remain the same.

Some folks would rather fuss and fight than to investigate for themselves.

Business is Business and recycling the same subjects sells magazines, keeps folks fussing at the barbershop and keeps bandwith filled on the Internet.

Kinda neat to read a '55 F&S and grin real big though.