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anyone still read magazines.????????
hillbille
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noticed in another thread, Ken and drobs read a few off road magazines, any other good ones out there. I used to read fish fur and game, and another outdoor type mag at work. Now since I retired I don't read much but library books, seems the doctors office, ect. don't want magazines laying around anymore. You all have any good ones??????
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I did until a few short years ago when I let my membership lapse with the National Muzzleloading Rifle Association. Their monthly "Muzzle Blasts" magazine was quite interesting most of the time. I mostly enjoyed the how to articles and stuff about antique longrifles.
I have been reading a stack of 1962 American Rifleman's . Great articles about gunsmithing, target shooting, reloading and hunting. And the ads about surplus guns and equipment- amazing
I am thinking about starting again. I wonder if Guns and Ammo is still around? Used to read Field & Stream, Readers Digest, Shotgun News ect. .
@hillbille , you're not working for Publishers Clearing House are you? 😁
no, but I could use that $5000 a week for life, if you could send it my way.........
There are a few who might insist they read clips.
I was waiting for that one rocky.......
I read through clips in the summertime when the sun is bright!
Fur Fish and Game is my first read, had to pass others up at $6 or $7 per year rates.
I do read a lot of magazines while standing in the full service check out lanes at our local grocery store. The prices on many of those things are getting pretty pricey!
Keeping up on the Royal Family while also trying to stay moving ahead with a shopping cart keeps the brain agile. My multi- tasking tasks in retirement.
Gave up on most of the outdoor and gun mags some years ago. Still get the American Hunter and Rifleman. I can't remember the last time i read a newspaper, I get most of my info online nowadays.
Books are different though. I hate reading a book on the tablet or computer. For some reason I want to hold those pages in my hand and reading them online just doesn't seem right. Bob
As mentioned in the other thread. I really enjoy Guns of the Old West Magazine. I would get a subscription but finding one is the highlight of my weekly trips to Walmart for groceries. They usually have a historical article, cap & ball article, and what's the latest single action or lever action on the market.
Otherwise I have a lifetime subscription to American Rifleman. Usually there is something worthwhile to read in there.
I read a little before going to bed.
I read them all the time. They don't have much to say other than things like 15, 30, and MAGPUL.COM
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I get the USPSA magazine, American Rifleman, & the Dillon catalogs
American Hunter
The American Quarter Horse Journal
Quarterly issue of Wild Sheep Foundation
Quarterly issue of Grand Slam Club Ovis
Oil and Gas journal
World Oil.
RANGE, when I can find it.
Mule
I have some Field&Stream and Sports Afield from the early 60s that are still pretty interesting.
It's a strain enough to read the forums
Forbes and Opera News.
I use to read and buy a few, not no more. Too little talk and too much advertisement. Plus $$$$$
I do occasionally drag out the many old, old, gun magazines I have and read about the past.
Yes I do, although it usually doesn't take long. Most are just one or two words. Colt 45 auto, Kimber 9 MM, S&W, things like that, but yep I read em.
Well played
Handloader, Rifle, and Firearms News.
Last magazine subscription was James Defense Weekly. Dropped it when its price no longer made sense to me
Brad Steele
We get American Rifleman- from our NRA membership
No, I only read clips.
I get the HOG magazine as a life time member and the electric coop puts out a monthly mag, but i rarely read either anymore, like @festus most the mags I read these days don't have much detail, just what they are for or nuthing, sometimes the mfg...
🙄 Usually when I am at the Doctor's office........I think they need to upgrade their selection. 🙃
Guns, and American Handgunner. Guns of the Old West sometimes. Mostly they are about selling the latest whizbang, but somehow I always think I might need one of those. Usually that is a far as it gets. Usually.
Every night regular as clockwork at 19:00 just before jumping into the shower!! I donate them to various offices/waiting rooms when I'm finished with them.
As far as Firearms magazines go, "Ballistic," is one of the best new ones I have come across.
Most of the gun magazines nowadays are rehashing the same old thing day after day. Black this and that , what else can you hang off your tricked out ar? Still love to read but am more c selective on what I buy .
Try/check out "Ballistic," @pulsarnc.
Not your typical gun mag.
I have seen them give some pretty harsh reviews on stuff that does not work. A refreshing change.
My high school library always had Outdoor Life and Field and Stream. Later, I subscribed to Shooting Times.
Sounds good to me.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I have tons of magazines left over been trying to decide what to due with them.
ask the local senior center or any local nursing homes......
I had many years worth of the monthly magazine "Muzzle Blasts" stacked up in a closet. Took them all to the local VA clinic and left them there. When the plandemic struck, all magazines were gone from every medical clinic\doctors office I have been to. They have not yet returned!
Yes, and we had Pa. Game News free from the state! EZ Class of '62
In high school the librarian's husband was a gun guy so there was a good stock of gun rags in there. And she gave the old ones to me. Guns and Gun World were two. I still have them, along with hundreds and hundreds of others from the late '50s through the early '90s. Like any printed material, they are obsolete. I haven't read a new gun mag this century.
Its hard to take them to the Va or any doectors office becouse of the stupid bug that they say is going around. If any one wants some let me know. All you have to due is pay postage, Can put alot of magazines in a flat rate box lolol