Not at all surprised

 

Not surprised but disappointed. Much more convenient to read a magazine sitting in a chair or on a couch than being glued to a computer screen.

Some things are not progress, this is one of them.

 

Lots of newspapers have gone as well.

 

I used to work for a wholesale paper distribution company. I had to take early retirement and work in another industry for nine years before actually retiring.

 

Oh sigh! I remember devouring each new issue as it arrived …it taught me a lot back in the day (1985-2015…)

 

Not surprising and that's the logical way for magazines to go. When I started shooting handguns, I read every gun magazine published for about 8 years. Then, when I realized they had nothing left to say and were just publishing the same stuff over and over, I boxed them up and gave them all away, around 1995. There is very little useful information, once you learn what they have to say and realize all they are doing after that is advertising new models and new ammo. Sadly, there probably won't be any real print magazines left soon and, while I don't read them anymore, I think that's a bad thing.

The down side is that most people aren't going to pay for an online magazine, because they can't see why that's worth money when they have the whole internet. But the reason the magazines are/were better than "the internets" is because to get paid to write gun articles you had to have some level of expertise that was recognized by the publisher and what you wrote was reviewed by an editor before publishing. Then your article got feedback in the next issue, that was also read and selected for its value by an editor. This filtered out a lot of the nonsense that we see on Glock Talk and other web sites where amateurs share unfiltered gun "knowledge" and opinions, for better or worse.

In turn, the loss of the magazines will affect the quality of the next generations' basic gun knowledge and the whole gun world goes downhill.

 

I still have the gun at least

 

I still have the gun at least

Hey! One of those old fashioned stupid guns! No polymer!?!
Where’s your red dot?
what! No light/laser? It’s got an iron sight thingie…🥱

How do you expect to defend yourself and loved ones?

And.45acp? Oh my gosh. So ancient.

I’ll relieve you of this burden for a $100 USD.

 

I use to subscribe to this magazine years ago but this isn't surprising.

 

I subscribe to American Hand Gunner and Guns magazine and understand the costs to put out the mags. I've been reading these 2 for a lot of years and still enjoy both mags! I've been shooting handguns for over 60 years and I still learn something new quite often. Keep the digital versions coming!

 

A former subscriber. I lost interest in AH and other glossy gun magazines. The quality of writing is poor. People who could write are almost gone. The articles are full of stale cliches and repetition. There is still Massad Ayoob, but now mostly clowns like Will Dabbs, MD. New gun reviews have become mere infomercials. Anyone who wants to get a real scoop looks it up on YouTube anyway.
The way AH has become, I won’t miss it on the magazine stand. In a locker room restroom, maybe.

 

A former subscriber. I lost interest in AH and other glossy gun magazines. The quality of writing is poor. People who could write are almost gone. The articles are full of stale cliches and repetition. There is still Massad Ayoob, but now mostly clowns like Will Dabbs, MD. New gun reviews have become mere infomercials. Anyone who wants to get a real scoop looks it up on YouTube anyway.
The way AH has become, I won’t miss it on the magazine stand. In a locker room restroom, maybe.

I agree with most of what you said. Over the past few years, AH went downhill. Instead of sitting down and reading each issue cover to cover, more often than not I found myself flipping the pages and tossing it in the recycling bin. The only decent reads were from Massad Ayoob and a couple of others.

 

About 25 years ago I used to spend a lot of downtime while friends or girlfriends were busy at work going to the Barnes and Noble on Stevens Creek or the Tower Records by the Oakridge Mall reading those. After awhile I got tried of reading .45 vs 9mm or someone dumping 4 grand into a 600 dollar gun.

 

What a shame! I'm an old school kind of guy and have always preferred glossy gun magazines along with books versus reading on tablets. I suppose that this is the way of the future...

 

I am a "bathroom reader", and I am beginning to run out of things to read!

I still get American Hunter (NRA magazine). I enjoy reading about the hunting adventures.

I used to be a die hard Field & Stream reader. The last time I saw a F&S in a store it seemed like it was only about 7 pages thick.

Yea, I understand why magazines are stopping. But it is a little sad.

 

Gun magazines, as I remember:
-Full page ad for gun being tested this month
-Our prototype handgun shot 1/10 inch groups at 25 yards
-Several pages of ads
-We are going to wash over any problems with the prototype
-Full page ad for a gun we ain't saying nothing bad about, wink wink
-The latest & greatest this month is...
-Lets have an ad for that ^ gun.
-Long term tests? You wish.
-Don't miss this months condescending editorial.
-Sneak peek at next months gun you can't buy yet.

 

The thing with gun magazines is reviews. No matter how hard they try, it’s very hard to publish a negative gun review on a gun offered by a major advertiser of the same brand.

 

I now and then buy a AH mag at a book store.. but for every article there is 40 ads... and I don't find that much info there.. I only get it for Massad Ayoob's writings.

 

I read somewhere in Denmark they stopped delivering mail anymore. If true, that’s the way things are going. Printed manuals too. Bought a $1700 dream gun, here, scan this bar code, print away.

 

I used to get some of those magazines but most if not all don't keep my interest. I get one still even though it ran out a while ago. I thumb through it and throw it out. Hardly any guns I want to know about,etc. When I was an NRA member half of their magazines were adds. I ended them long ago

 

Wonder how long before Guns and Ammo and Shooting Times follows suit? Probably not long.

I still subscribe to a local newspaper. I need something to build fires with or be ready with a backup option in case there is another run on toilet paper. 🤣

 

I don't get a daily newspaper anymore (internet for news when I have breakfast), but we do get the weekly, free, local newspaper once a week.... that covers me for fires and emergency poop paper.

 

Use to subscribe but dropped it years ago. They were just hyping the products of their advertisers. I always thought the column about the mercenary was stupid bs

 

That’s why I stopped reading gun magazines

 

I honestly don't even care.

I still get several magazines and that is one of them. I can't remember when I actually renewed it the last time, but it's been years and they are still sending it. They only magazine I bother looking at is Handloader. The rest go straight in the trash.

 

I used to subscribe to a few magazines, but they kept getting thinner and I could get more useful information online from other sources. I learn a lot more from forums like this one than I usually do from any magazine.
American Handgunner always had pretty pictures though.

 

Never subscribed to them. I'd look at them sometimes if I was in a book store.

 

^^^^ this ^^^^

 

I used to enjoy reading them and purchased them at a local grocery store.
Then I moved and got a subscription as I enjoyed articles by Mas Ayoob, Conner and Mike Venturoni among others.
However, they obviously sold my email address and the Spam from industry sources followed.
Not surprised by this move to digital.

 

I'm not buying a Thousand Dollar iPad Pro to read magazines.

 

You don’t have too, there are iPads that are far less expensive. Oh yeah, you can do other things besides reading magazines on an iPad.

Just curious, what are you using to surf/post in GT? Good chance you could read a magazine on it.