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That was a good story! She tripped over a log, and injured herself trying to protect her custom-stocked Beretta 20-gauge over-under.

Come to think of it, there's an Internet magazine that often publishes hunting stories, called RIFLE LOONY NEWS, and it isn't anywhere near $10 a copy.

I dunno what magazines or websites you read, but some do run more in-depth articles.

But I would also suggest that the big problem doesn't lie in the articles, but most readers. People don't read as much as they used to, and when they do, they refuse to read anything longer than a page. Supposedly this is mostly younger people, who walk around with a smart phone in front of their face all day long, but Savage 99 is a perfect example of the phenomenon in the older generation as well. Instead of actually reading a 3000-4000 word article, people tend to read five 600-800 word "articles" which are actually paragraphs. And they somehow prefer that to reading a longer article with more detail.

Or the prefer a pile of 1-3 sentence 24hourcampfire posts, which are usually as in-depth and well-researched as a smart-phone text.

I fully agree but the guys who like those magazines are more likely to be out actually sitting under a tree watching for squirrels or doing something else outdoors rather than sitting home reading what some paid gun scribe tells them they need.

And if they don't actually need anything, why are they looking at gun rags anyway?

I like both, but yeah, it's unfortunate that not many hunters go after small game anymore, or write about it.

But there were far fewer deer, pigs and even elk 40-50 years ago, one reason more people hunted small game.