Guys, the VHA has been defunct for many months now. John Anderson, the Editor, is a very good friend of mine. He said they went to work one day, and about 9:00 AM they were told that effective immediately the magazine and organization no longer existed. No other explanations or excuses given! Russ
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Damn shame. Both publications were in my mail box for many years and then they weren't. It's hard to criticize the current technology of the internet but without it, we wouldn't be using this very forum. I look forward to the knowledge all you guys bring me daily, not monthly or quarterly. I do miss PS and VH alot but wouldn't want to see this forum vanish either. Chalk it up to technology, the very thing that allows us to keep improving in precision shooting. It just is what it is.
boltman13
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Although I never subscribed to PS I have read several past issues my gunsmith shared with me and I can see why it is missed. That said, I find a wealth of information, most of it well thought out, for free on this Forum. Separating the pearls of wisdom from the Pig S**t also is interesting.
"Back in the day" Precission Shooting was full of fascinating acticles and I'd read each one multiple times. The last couple of years the magazine seemed to drift into desperation for content. Maybe others found articles about antique muzzle loaders to be of great interest, but I got all of that already in the mainstream gun rags.
PS Magazine was unique in many ways. It use to have gun smith,s articles.
IT also at one time had photos of the top shooters on the cover along with the match reports.
Articles and stories about the ranges to shoot at , where to stay at the matches , hand loading advice,
how to turn cases articles about general shooting, benchrest articles, may forms of other shooting.
Brennen became ill and from what he use to say printing cost became excessive although it never kept him from writing
about 8 pages of book reports on american history.
The right,s to the magazine should have been sold to someone interested in producing it. In it's older form it was top notch .
IT also at one time had photos of the top shooters on the cover along with the match reports.
Articles and stories about the ranges to shoot at , where to stay at the matches , hand loading advice,
how to turn cases articles about general shooting, benchrest articles, may forms of other shooting.
Brennen became ill and from what he use to say printing cost became excessive although it never kept him from writing
about 8 pages of book reports on american history.
The right,s to the magazine should have been sold to someone interested in producing it. In it's older form it was top notch .
PS was a great magazine to write for, too. And Dave was always a wonderful editor to work with. I did some pretty arcane topics in there, such as the lengthy cryo treatment article, that wouldn't have been printed in any other publication. Always appreciated the ability to put stuff out that wouldn't have been allowed by the advertising bean counters at other mags.
I started about a year after Boyd Mace, summer of 1988.
Dave gave me free rein. Once, coming up against a deadline, he gave me the okay to send an article directly to the printer. I promised him nothing libelous or in poor taste.
I wish somebody would put it back in print, even if a bi-monthly.
Richard Kayser
Dave gave me free rein. Once, coming up against a deadline, he gave me the okay to send an article directly to the printer. I promised him nothing libelous or in poor taste.
I wish somebody would put it back in print, even if a bi-monthly.
Richard Kayser
Rich, I remember some of yours and Boyd's articles about long-range rockchucking. Cutting edge at the time. Thought it was great that Brennan allowed accuracy-oriented varminting articles in the magazine--spiced it up a bit I thought. I remember once I took a picture of a buddy up in the Sangre de Cristo mtns. here in So. CO preparing for a shot at a marmot using his custom XP-100 pistol 284 Win back in the days when guys were 1st starting to do builds with the specialty pistols. I held onto it for a long time and finally on a whim, I blew it up and sent it into Dave, and a month or so later he sent me a letter detailing how much he wanted to use it, but couldn't since he'd already changed cover photo formats from portrait to landscape I think it was. Dang--close but no cigar, I guess. We were lucky with Brennan, and Anderson in that they had enough insight not to over-edit. PS, TVHM, SCN, and even Shooter's News were the best of the gun magazines, IMO!
I also wish somebody would pick up where those magazines left off. There's a big hole in the market these days I believe, that nothing else has filled. Mainly, I just miss writing, as it was a great way to spend my time whilst the wife was shopping (ha!), and I could take it anywhere with me.
...This new Electronic Age is not for me nor my time. I just live with it since there's nothing much else anymore, really.
I also wish somebody would pick up where those magazines left off. There's a big hole in the market these days I believe, that nothing else has filled. Mainly, I just miss writing, as it was a great way to spend my time whilst the wife was shopping (ha!), and I could take it anywhere with me.
...This new Electronic Age is not for me nor my time. I just live with it since there's nothing much else anymore, really.
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After reading PS for years and being a member on this site, I find that the OL and F&S mags that I read in the doctors office currently have firearm editors that are totally clueless about precision shooting. Jim Carmichael is/was? the exception. Not good reading just before taking my BP.
I've been told about this one, Gunwerks Long Range magazine, but they don't have an option for sending it outside the US/Canada yet so I haven't tried it.
https://www.gunwerks.com/store/magazine
https://www.gunwerks.com/store/magazine
Shynloco
You can lead a horse to water, but ........
The one REFUND I truly regret receiving was when my annual renewal subscription money to PS was returned with a note relaying, Sorry we are no more! Like many others, I've not seen anything even remotely similar nor nearly as informative. It's kinda like something we relied on and knew the information was very reliable and trustworthy with a desire to help readers improve and achieve better shooting score via better practices reloading. Now we only have this site, some of the PS contributors to lean on and can only hope others with that wealth of knowledge are willing to help out those who seek to continue learning. Its kinda like school ended, but the yearning for another day of classes still remains.
Alex
Alex
I realize that everyone still mourns the passing of Precision Shooting magazine but the costs of publishing actual paper magazines has skyrocketed along with the decline of new and better information which isn't already currently available through digital media. Advertisers are unwilling to pay the freight of print media when they can cover a far larger audience through digital media.
I can suggest that along with the printed tomes in Rifle and Reloader, we have a rising star in the UK from http://www.targetshooter.co.uk/ which is obviously a digital publication.
There is a section in my office where I keep most of the PS magazines as well as quite a number of Rifle and Reloader. However, without a detailed index, it is nearly impossible to access the material I want, expeditiously. My leisure time is strictly curtailed, I do not have the time to spend wandering through the pages of long ago publications for entertainment without some sort of result from that hunt. Unfortunately, that leaves the internet with its myriad of search engines and the never deleted stockpile of links to useful information.
Take a peek at Target Shooter, I'm sure that they would entertain suggestions from serious shooters found here.
Regards.
I can suggest that along with the printed tomes in Rifle and Reloader, we have a rising star in the UK from http://www.targetshooter.co.uk/ which is obviously a digital publication.
There is a section in my office where I keep most of the PS magazines as well as quite a number of Rifle and Reloader. However, without a detailed index, it is nearly impossible to access the material I want, expeditiously. My leisure time is strictly curtailed, I do not have the time to spend wandering through the pages of long ago publications for entertainment without some sort of result from that hunt. Unfortunately, that leaves the internet with its myriad of search engines and the never deleted stockpile of links to useful information.
Take a peek at Target Shooter, I'm sure that they would entertain suggestions from serious shooters found here.
Regards.
boltman13
Gold $$ Contributor
My gunsmith saved all of his old PS's and I have read many articles and wish there were more to stimulate me. That said I find a treasure trove of knowledge and experience on Accurate shooter here for free. Sure there is some chaff mixed in with the wheat, but separating the two is sometimes stimulating as well.
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