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Gun Magazines.....the kind you read....

RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
edited October 2001 in General Discussion
If you're like most gun owners, no doubt you have a pile of periodicals laying around. Are there certain ones you deem worthy of saving for collectibility value (like old Playboys or National Geographics?) or do you save these for future reference sources? I recently cleaned out some filing cabinets of what I once thought were important magazines worth saving (NRA Rifleman, American Handgunner, Shooting times etc). Now just hanging onto North American Whitetail.
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Cleaned my storage space last month and and yard saled boxes and boxes of outdoor and gun magazine subscriptions from up to twenty years. I kept my favorites: Guns And Ammo, NRA American Rifleman, and USPA Parachutist. Still too much clutter according to my better half.
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  • mlincolnmlincoln Member Posts: 5,039 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The NRA publications are good, and Gun Tests is in a class by itself. The regular stuff that you can buy at any 7-11 is a bunch of crapola. Total BS: articles are almost written by the advertisers, they don't tell you when a gun stinks, and the writing is bad. They're a waste of paper and I can't see why anybody would waste their money on them.
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  • BigTexBigTex Member Posts: 64 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ted Nugent Adventure Outdoors www.tednugent.com Subscribe today![This message has been edited by BigTex (edited 10-24-2001).]
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Shooting times and A.R.. I try to clip articles rather than save magazines. Our house is a sea of paper as it is.It's hard to do with Sport Aviation because there is so much great photography.It's a struggle to clear table tops for company.
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm kinda' letting my subscriptions expire. It seems every issue is touting "the best concealed carry gun" or "the best concealed carry holster" or "the best self defense round". Gets old real quick. Some of the article are OK but not, by themselves, worth the price of the magazine. I keep American Rifleman though.Mudge
    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you have a good sized stack total upthe money you spent & then have a good crythinking of the guns you could have bought. They all say the same things over & over ad nasium. Get your American Rifleman withyour life subscription & read the others from time to time at the library.
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  • ironsitesironsites Member Posts: 97 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm with yall- they all have the same stories and don't have an unbiased opinion when doing testes. I think I misspelled "tests". NRA rifleman is the best- second may and i say maybe Guns and Ammo.
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    I have about a hundred Shooting times,from the late 80s /early 90s, that I got free from a gunshop.I like it when I buy a rifle that I was never intrested in before,then go back and read stuff about it ,or about the round.Also they have load data charts that I plan to cut out and put into a handload scrap book.There was this guy named Paul Quinette(sp)at S.T. who wrote some real funny stories,mostly true..218[This message has been edited by 218Beekeep (edited 10-24-2001).]
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  • moparmopar Member Posts: 338 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Subsribe to GUNS & AMM0,also SmithsonianAIR & SPACE.I like'em both but will also browse the bookstore shelves from time to time as well.
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Guns and ammo technical articles beat the pulp out of the rest ... For National Geographic I say is the best info sourcesinse 1930 for bra salesmen in Africa ,theycan calculate The sise will sell the most inin an area without visiting.
    I judge Thee!, Not for what you are , but for what you say !
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  • GreenLanternGreenLantern Member Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't want to get too far off the main thread here but seems like every gun show I go to there's someone selling 2 year old GunList and Shotgun news for $3 a piece. Now why would I want to buy what would be considered an ancient catalog when I can go to the book store and for a couple of dollars more, get the next issue? Or even a subscription for that matter? Just one of my millions of daily observations!
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  • buddybbuddyb Member Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have to agree that Guns&Ammo is nothing but a big advertisment.I read an article on reloading a few months ago,mostly trying to sell high dolllar gadgets (complete with manufactures address etc.)that nobody needs to turn out perfectly good rounds.I have never read them say anything bad about anything they test. My favorite magazine is Fish-Fur and Game.
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  • legn4legn4 Member Posts: 481 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Shooting Times since 1975 most are up in the attic. A really good mag.
    Work'n like a dog all nite
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    SubscriptionsI'm a life member NRA so Rifleman of courseBlack Powder Cartridge NewsRifle & HandloaderBackwoodsman Fur, Fish, GameIf you're into traditional country living I heartily recomend "Backwoods Home" Very pro gun and Massad Ayoob as a regular writer on staff.I still occasionally buy Shooting timesI haven't bought Guns & Ammo in at least 5 years, Best G&A's were the ones with the square binding, they've gone down hill since.
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  • BlueTicBlueTic Member Posts: 4,072
    edited November -1
    Guns & Ammo, only if they have an article of interest(like guns). American Rifleman(damn gotta pay again) Gun Test(just cause I get to steal my kids 3 hole binders)and all my fly fishing stuff.....
    IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY RIGHTS - GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY (this includes politicians)
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  • sandman2234sandman2234 Member Posts: 894 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, don't throw out any of those old "MachineGun News". I will pay the freight from your trashcan to my bookshelf. Thanks,Sandman2234
    Have Gun, will travel
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  • .250Savage.250Savage Member Posts: 812 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Guns & Ammo are fun, even if they are written by the advertisers, and is everyone forgetting Cooper's Corner? AR comes with the membership, and Gun Tests just has too much good info to toss. All of them together add up to a staggering reference library. Now some day I gotta make up an index...
    I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.--Voltare~Secret Select Society Of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets~
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  • Walt NunleyWalt Nunley Member Posts: 228 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I GET GUNS AND AMMO'S "HANDGUNS" MAG.THE ARTICLES NORMALY REFLECT WHAT THE EXPERTS IN THIS FORUM SAY ABOUT THE GUNS AND I REALLY LIKE DON KATES MONTHLY ARTICLE ON GUN RIGHTS.I ALSO GET"FIRST FREEDOM"WITH MY NRA MEMBERSHIP,IT GOES A LITTLE MORE INTO THE POLITICAL ARENA THAN RIFLEMAN OR HUNTER
    Submarine Sailor,Truck Driver,and very bad typist.GO RUSTY #2
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