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I've got a couple of magazines that I enjoy to read from time to time. They are African Hunter, Magnum of South Africa, (NO not the American Porno mag it's a hunting mag from RSA.), and Sports Afield.
I picked up Peterson's hunting the other day and an Outdoor Life. Holy lousy carp buckets Batman, have those magazines ever gotten horrible. I bought the Peterson's because it had an article about sheep hunting. That had to be the most poorly written, no information, short subject story I've ever had the misfortune of reading. It did have some pictures of the pretty boy hunter though. I guess that counts for something if you like to look at pretty boys. It didn't talk about the rifles or any other equipment it didn't talk about shot details or go into any interesting details about any part of the hunt, it simply said "I went sheep hunting and to sheep hunt you have to be tough like me, I killed a sheep."
The rest of the magazine is mostly adds and a few non substantial articles about the same stuff we've all read 1,000 times before. Outdoor Life is about the same. It's written at a 5th grade level and has about the same quality and information level as you average Marvel comic.
Being a life member of the NRA I get my choice between the two mags and I choose American Hunter. It's so bad it generally goes straight into the trash it does have one or two interesting articles a year but that's about it.
African hunter usually has one or two readable articles per issue. Sports Afield started off strong but they are getting to be hit and miss. Magnum I usually enjoy every issue as there is generally something in there that catches my interest. I especially enjoy the articles written by Africans about hunting in North America. I find it very interesting to read their first time impressions of our hunting here.
What magazines do you guys enjoy reading if any?
I picked up Peterson's hunting the other day and an Outdoor Life. Holy lousy carp buckets Batman, have those magazines ever gotten horrible. I bought the Peterson's because it had an article about sheep hunting. That had to be the most poorly written, no information, short subject story I've ever had the misfortune of reading. It did have some pictures of the pretty boy hunter though. I guess that counts for something if you like to look at pretty boys. It didn't talk about the rifles or any other equipment it didn't talk about shot details or go into any interesting details about any part of the hunt, it simply said "I went sheep hunting and to sheep hunt you have to be tough like me, I killed a sheep."
The rest of the magazine is mostly adds and a few non substantial articles about the same stuff we've all read 1,000 times before. Outdoor Life is about the same. It's written at a 5th grade level and has about the same quality and information level as you average Marvel comic.
Being a life member of the NRA I get my choice between the two mags and I choose American Hunter. It's so bad it generally goes straight into the trash it does have one or two interesting articles a year but that's about it.
African hunter usually has one or two readable articles per issue. Sports Afield started off strong but they are getting to be hit and miss. Magnum I usually enjoy every issue as there is generally something in there that catches my interest. I especially enjoy the articles written by Africans about hunting in North America. I find it very interesting to read their first time impressions of our hunting here.
What magazines do you guys enjoy reading if any?