Guns/Handgunner magazines GONE

[snert]

Guns and Handgunner in print form, GONE. I was sad to see that announcement. Lots of factors but in the end it is the digital twit world that has killed print. Sadly.

No more referencing old magazines and re-reading lost treasures. This old man is sad.

 

[Tommie]

Printed material is on its way out. And I too am sad about it.

 

[Knotwild]

I like Rifle and Handloader magazines by Wolfe Publishing better than other rags out there and you can still get them printed - bi monthly.

Wolfe Publishing

 

[WileyG]

The ongoing disappearance of print media makes me super glad that I bought my collection of 1960-2013 Remington catalogs (inclusive) for $50 last year. That type of somewhat collectible print media seems to be getting more scarce by the day.

 

[ChrisA]

Fur-Fish-Game still showing up in the mailbox monthly. Guess I'd better cherish it.

 

[jimmb]

Fur-Fish-Game still showing up in the mailbox monthly. Guess I'd better cherish it.

All time classic Magazine. Not about look at me I shot a big deer.... just good useful stuff....

 

[FNSafari]

Sad is correct. I absolutely and totally hate reading a magazine or newspaper online. Nuff said.

 

[mongo chicago]

As Varmint Hunter magazine and Precision Shooter. Miss them both.

 

[farmerjohn]

Guns and Handgunner in print form, GONE. I was sad to see that announcement. Lots of factors but in the end it is the digital twit world that has killed print. Sadly.

No more referencing old magazines and re-reading lost treasures. This old man is sad.

Hey Feller, I know what you mean. I still have my 94 win in a 32 win spec was earned by selling magazine subscriptions in 1959 for my highschool FFA, most for the Progressive Farmer and the Saturday Evening Post. Farmers and their wives bought most, then the barber shops. I got the NRA and Field and Stream myself along with the shotgun news, our gun catalogs were mostly the Sears and Robuck and monkey ward catalogs. Now days you can't even find a news paper! But as I told my wife last Wednesday night while I was sitting there pondering the safe arrival of our 4th great grandson and realizing that 3 of our 5 children are now grandparents, we are still truly blessed ... John

 

[AccelR8]

When I was a young teenager I loved reading my Dad's old issues of American Rifleman from the 60's and early 70's. He kept them in a cabinet in his basement. Between his passing and later my Mom's they all disappeared. Thrown out I'm sure. In my mind a great loss.

 

[ISS]

Agreed. The catalog I miss the most was the annual Weatherby one. All those world wide trophy hunts and the beautiful Mark V rifles and shotguns.
Wolfe Publishing is keeping the worth reading magazines alive, they now own the Black Powder Cartridge News as well.

I guess I will just have to drive over to Boise every now and then to visit John Taffin.

 

[Rick in Oregon]

Well, we still have American Handgunner, and it is by far better than it's competitor 'Handguns', so not all is lost. But losing these print mags is a sad commentary of the current world we live in.

But I still lamet the loss of Small Caliber News; one of the best. I've got all issues, still go to them and re-read the articles that are of current interest. Same goes for The Varmint Hunter magazine. I recently tossed out years of Precision Shooting magazine, no one wanted to pay shipping. That was a sad day for me.

Our world is changing, and not for the better.

 

[big5ifty]

Over the years, I've collected boxes full of shooting magazines from people who don't want them anymore.

Keep an eye out on the forms, most just offer free for collection.

I have some Field and Stream from 1954 and 5.

 

[Bugs]

The little magazine that the Pennsylvania Game Commission publishes (the "Game News") is a treasure as long as you can get past the game commission propaganda. I really hope that it can remain a printed magazine rather than digital.

 

[jds holler]

Jeeze, what a bunch of stodgy old grandmas you guys are. I'll bet your closets smell like mothballs, and musty old Christmas cards. jd

 

[FNSafari]

A club I belong to has a collection of bound American Rifleman mags that go back into the 1930's. Very interesting reading in particular the 1942 through 1945 WWII years.

 

[jds holler]

When I was a teenager, still living at home, I had scrips for five outdoor and gun mags. -- American Rifleman, Shooting Times, Outdoor Life, Sports Afield, and Fur Fish & Game. I pretty much read them front to back, and wonder how I ever had time for school work, as well as all the hunting and fishing I did.

I think my mom was pretty happy to see me moving out with all those boxes of saved magazines. jd

 

[AccelR8]

When I was a teenager, still living at home, I had scrips for five outdoor and gun mags. -- American Rifleman, Shooting Times, Outdoor Life, Sports Afield, and Fur Fish & Game. I pretty much read them front to back, and wonder how I ever had time for school work, as well as all the hunting and fishing I did.

I think my mom was pretty happy to see me moving out with all those boxes of saved magazines. jd

There was a time when magazines had some real content. When I quit buying them in 2004-2005 time
frame you could read cover-to-cover in about 20 minutes!

 

[gat]

Really miss the Sears catalog. Spent a lot of time perusing the ladies lingere....er.....sporting goods!

 

[Rick in Oregon]

Really miss the Sears catalog. Spent a lot of time perusing the ladies lingere....er.....sporting goods!

When I was a kid growing up in central BC, I remember that catalog being common in various outhouses. Might have been 'dual-purpose'.......