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What do you guys get ? What would you recommend ?
I go back and forth. I’ll ususlly do one or two mags for a year or two , then I don’t get anything for a few years.
Its nice to have crapper reading material sometimes. But generally get burned out before the subscription ends.
Talk to me goose.
wctriumph
08-15-2018, 18:21
I'm bored with gun magazines, it is always the same crap, guns have not changed in over a hundred years.
That being said, I get Guns and American Hand Gunner. Better than the other mag's out there and can be politically incorrect and sometimes entertaining.
But mostly I'm bored.
I just read this forum on the crapper. I thought everyone did...
spqrzilla
08-15-2018, 19:16
Very few gun magazines are worth paying for at all, IMO. I only subscribe to Handloader magazine currently. I also chose Shooting Illustrated as the least boring of the NRA official magazines, but honestly only because an acquaintance writes for them.
hollohas
08-15-2018, 19:16
Recoil, World of Firepower and Off-grid.
American Rifleman, also because of the lifetime membership. It is so much a way to help the advertisers sell guns. As a side note. I had a large Klein bag with a large sharpie written "MAGAZINES" on it. I took a guy from work shooting. He looked at the bag and asked why I brought stuff to read. He though it was full of Playboys and such. He wasn't a gun guy.[ROFL2]
Little Dutch
08-16-2018, 01:07
Just American Rifleman.
I had been a long time subscriber to G&A, but found I wasn’t even opening them before they got tossed so canceled the subscription. I have no recommendations for a good one to subscribe to.
I just read this forum on the crapper. I thought everyone did...
Winner.
I have the internet so I can read about whatever I want whenever I want. I even dumped my subscription to “Shotgun News” when they changed the name. Pretty sure I had been a loyal subscriber to that one since around 1994.
Americas First Freedom instead of American Rifleman or Hunter.
I don't subscribe to any magazines, well I get American Rifleman from my NRA membership but I throw that away instantly. I can get all the info (correct and otherwise) about anything on the internet.
clodhopper
08-16-2018, 08:41
With the competition of the internet, magazine providers have had to boil down their systems to keep a place in the world. Even with the variety of covers on the magazine rack, the same stories are simply rotated through them all. More cover candy, less cost to produce. Probably close to 3/4 of the page sqft in the mag is devoted to advertising. Such a waste.
I am another member of the “get magazines due to membership” club. ARRL for Ham radio, AOPA Pilot, American Rifleman, Blue Press, Costco Connection, whatever Thornton sends out semi regularly. I often throw them in my work bag because I have a lot more time sitting around and don’t need to sit on the toilet nearly long enough to read all the crap the post office delivers.
I sometimes tear off the address page of American Rifleman and leave the rest of the magazine laying in an airport terminal. If it saves only one child. [LOL]
I wouldn't even usually consider paying for a magazine. I have to say though that every year when I go hunting, and don't have internet, I enjoy browsing through hunting magazines left at the cabin before bed. I have the same complaint as HBAR though in that I care little about East coast hunting.
clodhopper
08-16-2018, 11:30
I wouldn't even usually consider paying for a magazine. I have to say though that every year when I go hunting, and don't have internet, I enjoy browsing through hunting magazines left at the cabin before bed. I have the same complaint as HBAR though in that I care little about East coast hunting.
That is where the people are. One solution would be to convince hoards of mindless spenders to move to the west so advertisers would devote more effort to our area. If you decide to use that idea, just do it after I am dead. Thanks.
I realize that, but at the same time know that the West is a popular draw for hunting and people make an effort to come out here to hunt. You'd think people would want to read about it.
clodhopper
08-16-2018, 13:19
I realize that, but at the same time know that the West is a popular draw for hunting and people make an effort to come out here to hunt. You'd think people would want to read about it.
Nah. A very few people are willing to drop the coin necessary to travel out here to hunt. By far the vast majority of hunters stay near home. Magazine content is focused on getting you to pick it up and look through the ads in search of content, which then causes you to buy the junk in the ads. Info on hunting near home causes people to pick up a magazine more often than stories about stuff you know you will never do.
African hunts are even cooler than the American west. Why is there no magazine content (or so very little) devoted to that? Same thing. Not enough people actually do it or even consider doing it.
Was just going to say, if you're going to market to people with the money to destination hunt, might as well go for the much more rich African big game hunters.
I get American Rifleman and Front Sight. They come with the memberships. I read a few of the articles here and there.
Zundfolge
08-16-2018, 15:55
Are we even allowed to subscribe to gun magazines with more than 15 pages?
American Rifleman and America's First Freedom. Wife & I are both Lifers.
American Rifleman and America's First Freedom. Wife & I are both Lifers.
First Freedom is produced here in Colorado Springs.
First Freedom is produced here in Colorado Springs.
Well...thank you.
For you guys wanting a western US hunting-centric magazine:
https://westernhunter.net/
I agree, east coast hunting is BORING to read about. All the guys on archerytalk with pages and pages of being worried about "practicing to 100 yards so the close shots are easy", but then they all talk about how they never shoot an animal beyond 30 yards cus their shooting lanes are so short. Brah, if you can't hit a friggin deer at 30 yards from a tree stand without practicing to 100 yards, wth?
And the scent control, oh goodness (as if grandpa wasn't smoking an unfiltered lucky strike and drinking from a warm thermos of sludge-like coffee). And the uber-camo camo stuff coming out (as if grandpa didn't do it better with a red flannel jacket on).
If I've learned anything on Archerytalk, it's that the eastern hunting scene is a bunch of gear obsessed wankers and the hunting sounds boring as can be.
I really wonder about scent myself. The animals I've shot have been so close I could practically smell them. On one hand if an animal is weary, they tend to see/hear/smell you from a mile away. On the other hand they seem to be like people in that they must not be switched on 100% of the time because sometimes you walk right up to them.
I really wonder about scent myself. The animals I've shot have been so close I could practically smell them. On one hand if an animal is weary, they tend to see/hear/smell you from a mile away. On the other hand they seem to be like people in that they must not be switched on 100% of the time because sometimes you walk right up to them.
In my experience, scent is mostly about the chemicals we use. Soap, deodorant, shampoo, scents in the laundry soap and dryer sheets, etc. The scent of a predator is less obnoxious to game animals than those chemicals. I was told that a long time ago by a hunter who had a lot of game, some in the record books. He went low meat and no soap, shampoo or deodorant for 2 weeks before the hunt. He washed all of his clothes with homemade soaps, then again with no soap and laid them out in the sun for several days. First time I followed his plan at 21 years of age, I went from seeing Deer and Elk at distance, to seeing them close and got my first bull. I had a small Buck actually step over my legs where I was set up on a trail bow hunting for Elk.
Deodorant is something I'll never not wear, but that's it. If I didn't wear deodorant, I'd be too busy smelling myself to concentrate on the hunt much.
You ever try the no scent deodorant stuff?
Deodorant is something I'll never not wear, but that's it. If I didn't wear deodorant, I'd be too busy smelling myself to concentrate on the hunt much.
Gas mask? :)
StagLefty
08-17-2018, 11:09
Gas mask? :)
Vintage clothes pins !!! [ROFL2]
clodhopper
08-17-2018, 11:25
Gas mask? :)
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ChickNorris
08-17-2018, 11:34
Nos-pon?
DocMedic
08-17-2018, 12:12
The wife and I are both NRA lifers,
She gets American Rifleman and I get Americas First Freedom.
Yea they pretty much get read for a article or two then tossed when the next months comes around. Every-once in a while I'll buy a RECOIL mag.
You ever try the no scent deodorant stuff?
No, and that doesn't sound out of the question.
Know of any hunting podcasts?
I'll go ask in the podcast thread.
I don't really listen to podcasts. Sorry.
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