I stopped when the costs started to head toward $10 each.
In an era where many, if not most, products are giving us more for lower costs.....magazines are giving us less for higher prices.
The Tea Party Movement is pretty much the same as a bowel movement except that it smells worse and has far less in the way of intelligent content. --DancesWithGuns
I DO have a collection of Field and Stream, Outdoor Life and Sports Afield from the 1940s through the 1960s.
Now those are a lot of fun.
The articles are great, and the advertising is nostalgic, amusing and a source of pleasure rather than pain.
The Tea Party Movement is pretty much the same as a bowel movement except that it smells worse and has far less in the way of intelligent content. --DancesWithGuns
prices on everything has gone up if you havent noticed.....your paying bout the same as you always have.....inflation is a b!tch or do you think magazines are some how magically exempt?
A serious student of the "Armchair Safari" always looking for Africa/Asia hunting books
I only read magazines with articles by John B. in them. The rest have become a waste of money. I subscribed to most of them since 1966 but no more. As JOC once said, Francis Sell shot the same crow in numerous gun magazines.
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.
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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 believe you said you purchased her a GPS after happened .
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
You don't know shyt about Joe average. Joe average don't give a damn about 3000.00 pistols because he'd never buy one. A thousand dollar gun is an expensive piece to Joe average. Fur, Fish and Game is the magazine for the practical outdoorsman. IOW, Joe average.
problem is most members of this forum ARE NOT Joe Average.....most members here are gun nuts that shoot alot more than Joe Average.....most here are far more specialized and knowledgeable than the average gun owner/hunter.....so claiming you want something for the Average Joe you would likely be happy with the basic stuff that is currently out there and if your not take the time to search out the specialist magazines for the topics that do interest you.....
A serious student of the "Armchair Safari" always looking for Africa/Asia hunting books
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 must be an exception somehow. If the article is about a subject of interest, I don't care if it runs 20 pages....I'll read it.But I read pretty fast,and have no problem with attention spans so long as the article is on a subject that interests me.
SA gets bought by me more than anything else because I like the hunting stories,and editorial content. I can't get excited about anything too technical or deep in the weeds, and the black gun stuff interests me not at all.The hunting has always interested me more than the gun gack.
The short paragraph stuff is a complete turn off and of little interest.
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?
Wish I'd said that.
Three issues into my cut-rate "Guns" subscription, and I'm already missing the $10.
The majority of my online activity is on my iPad, which has thus far remained out of the smallest room in the house. My magazines, on the other hand, reside there more or less permanently after the first quick scan.
"I stopped buying magazines when they were .35 a copy. Today, they’re all advertising. Or too specialized. And no good old fashioned hunting stories. No last page humör."
I think it’s a simple matter of genetic mutation. The magazine board rooms know what sells and they deliver it.
You’re spending too much time looking for a good magazine to read.
When I was young I thought I would never be a grumpy Old Man.I guess cause I probably thought I would never get old.Now I know that Old and grumpy go together like PB&J!!!
Its all right to be white!! Stupidity left unattended will run rampant Don't argue with stupid people, They will drag you down to their level and then win by experience