George Hill
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So I was walking through Wally World picking up a few needed household items such as dish soap, training pants for the Terrible Two I have... things like that.
I noticed they had moved the magazine rack and it looked to be expanded. Thought I would take a look at the gun rags and maybe pick one up for the daily library read.
All the rags looked like they have always looked... maybe a bit glossier but otherwise the are all the same "issues" in all the issues. I decided to pick one up when I noticed the price. IT WAS 10 BUCKS! What the Heck?!
Forget that! That's a box of ammo!
So I grabbed a different one... and it was 10 bucks.
so I grabbed a different one... and it was 10 bucks.
There was a couple other one that were cheaper... and they were the price of a movie ticket.
Forget that! That's a ticked to Bullet Proof Monk!
The cheapest rag on the market that appeared on the shelf was Guns and Ammo... for the price of a 500 pack of .22LR.
When did these guys start making these gun magazines expensive? At what point was the value of the same old people writting the same old articles suddenly increased more than double? I never saw this coming. On the few occasions that I buy a gun magazine, I have never noticed because I would just throw an issue into the cart as I walked past and put everything on the card all at once.
With the Algore's advent of the Internet, and people like Rich and Oleg and others who have created websites like this one... where you can get all the information you want... where we even have industry leaders (such as owen here from FN) who are willing to talk about the products... you would think that these gunrags would cost LESS because they are becoming obsolete and the information, if not rehashed a hundred thousand times, is outdated by more than a month at least. You never get BREAKING NEWS from a gun magazine like you could 5 years ago. Are production costs of these magazines that high? I mean seriously... don't the advertisers give enough to offset the rack price? I mean hell man, I picked up 2 year subscriptions for MAXIM and STUFF for FREE because they make enough from Advertising they just wanted to pump up the subscription numbers to charge even more for advertising. SURELY GLOCK and SPRINGFIELD and SMITH & WESSON spend enough money on advertising... I am sure that those guys together don't even spend as much as the EXTREME SHOK AMMO and the BLACK HAWK INDUSTIRES guys spend. Good advertising too - if I ever have to shoot a Talibanny, it's going to be with THAT AMMO!
So instead of dropping 10 bucks on a freaking gun rag... I picked up another 100 rounds of 9mm and went shooting instead.
If I want to read on the latrine, I have SWAT downloaded into my iPAQ and can read that... it's really the only one that you can actually READ. Other that John Taffin's articles in American Handgunner... it's all about the pictures anyways.
Is that worth 10 bucks? I don't know... maybe it is. American Handgunner has those sexy centerfolds that you can hang up in your walk in gun safe / reloading room.
I remember when these things were only like 3 bucks and change.
No... these gun rag publishers can't be getting greedy and just pumping the price for profits... I BLAME THE TREE HUGGERS FOR MAKING PAPER MORE EXPENSIVE!!!!
I noticed they had moved the magazine rack and it looked to be expanded. Thought I would take a look at the gun rags and maybe pick one up for the daily library read.
All the rags looked like they have always looked... maybe a bit glossier but otherwise the are all the same "issues" in all the issues. I decided to pick one up when I noticed the price. IT WAS 10 BUCKS! What the Heck?!
Forget that! That's a box of ammo!
So I grabbed a different one... and it was 10 bucks.
so I grabbed a different one... and it was 10 bucks.
There was a couple other one that were cheaper... and they were the price of a movie ticket.
Forget that! That's a ticked to Bullet Proof Monk!
The cheapest rag on the market that appeared on the shelf was Guns and Ammo... for the price of a 500 pack of .22LR.
When did these guys start making these gun magazines expensive? At what point was the value of the same old people writting the same old articles suddenly increased more than double? I never saw this coming. On the few occasions that I buy a gun magazine, I have never noticed because I would just throw an issue into the cart as I walked past and put everything on the card all at once.
With the Algore's advent of the Internet, and people like Rich and Oleg and others who have created websites like this one... where you can get all the information you want... where we even have industry leaders (such as owen here from FN) who are willing to talk about the products... you would think that these gunrags would cost LESS because they are becoming obsolete and the information, if not rehashed a hundred thousand times, is outdated by more than a month at least. You never get BREAKING NEWS from a gun magazine like you could 5 years ago. Are production costs of these magazines that high? I mean seriously... don't the advertisers give enough to offset the rack price? I mean hell man, I picked up 2 year subscriptions for MAXIM and STUFF for FREE because they make enough from Advertising they just wanted to pump up the subscription numbers to charge even more for advertising. SURELY GLOCK and SPRINGFIELD and SMITH & WESSON spend enough money on advertising... I am sure that those guys together don't even spend as much as the EXTREME SHOK AMMO and the BLACK HAWK INDUSTIRES guys spend. Good advertising too - if I ever have to shoot a Talibanny, it's going to be with THAT AMMO!
So instead of dropping 10 bucks on a freaking gun rag... I picked up another 100 rounds of 9mm and went shooting instead.
If I want to read on the latrine, I have SWAT downloaded into my iPAQ and can read that... it's really the only one that you can actually READ. Other that John Taffin's articles in American Handgunner... it's all about the pictures anyways.
Is that worth 10 bucks? I don't know... maybe it is. American Handgunner has those sexy centerfolds that you can hang up in your walk in gun safe / reloading room.
I remember when these things were only like 3 bucks and change.
No... these gun rag publishers can't be getting greedy and just pumping the price for profits... I BLAME THE TREE HUGGERS FOR MAKING PAPER MORE EXPENSIVE!!!!
Those pictures, that lighting, the thought of being eqipped with that gear! Oh yeah, they know the value of a good photo shoot, alright. 
