And just what do you old farts want a writer to write about?
When it comes to rifles and shotguns, new introductions are for the most part throwaway items, not meant to be collector pieces 75plus years from now. I would say the two most significant new rifle additions-over here-would be the Kimber and Forbes, and how many times would you be willing to read another in depth review of their pros/cons? Europe seems to be where the new quality rifles and shotguns are coming from. Unfortunately most here are not all that enthusiastic about quality.
Quality scopes and binoculars are definitely on an upward trend.
Long range shooting is the current craze and those who practice the art spend big dollars to do so. The new guys are into it. The bad knees crowd, not so much.
Most of the old crew are not all that interested in the black rifles, so those write ups usually have little attraction for them. Yet when I go to the range that is pretty much what the current generation is fooling around with.
A good writer can do a historical piece on one of the old time rifles/shotguns and most of the current generation
could care less. What's a publisher to do? What's a writer to do?
So what is current you would be willing to pay for? However for the most part, the demographic that is spending essentially cares less about what most of us old guys are into. They are making their own memories, so in order to have it go into print it best be something that attracts them also.
Last edited by battue; 09/01/15.
