Gun Reviews in publications

[PegLeg45]

That your lawnmower, Frank?

 

[Big Frank]

That your lawnmower, Frank?

 

Don't make me change my avatar back! 






 

[Trevor]

The days of the print publications for firearms are numbered.  They are predictable, trite, under-written, over-produced, and generally too full of flim-flam to take seriously.  There is nothing more to see here.  Move along.

[SigShooter]

The days of the print publications for firearms are numbered.  They are predictable, trite, under-written, over-produced, and generally too full of flim-flam to take seriously.  There is nothing more to see here.  Move along.

I let my subs expire a couple years ago. I don't feel I'm missing anything, especially since I've discovered Downrange and other locations. Free content tends to be the most honest for some reason. Maybe it's because they aren't writing for the ad dollars but for the love of guns. Plus, you'll get multiple opinions on Downrange which is the best type of review.

Everything printed is going to die sooner or later anyway. Just look at the newspapers and the free content online. Plus the cable news you already get if you have cable or satelite.

[Big Frank]

Magazines are great for people like me and Mac who don't have internet access in the bathroom.

BTW, my great-grandpa used to install electric lines on Indian reservations where everyone lived in tepees. He ran the cables to fuse panels in outhouses because they were the only permanent buildings. Great-grand-pappy was one of the first people to ever wire a head for reservations. 

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[alfsauve]

The days of the print publications for firearms are numbered.  They are predictable, trite, under-written, over-produced, and generally too full of flim-flam to take seriously.  There is nothing more to see here.  Move along.

I agree most of them are trite, and there will be fallout, but some will survive.   I think ones  Rifle and Handloader will survive because they have more substantive material and less gloss.

ALSO, as others have said, reading things on-line just doesn't "feel" the same as the printed page.

[Hazcat]

Magazines are great for people like me and Mac who don't have internet access in the bathroom.

BTW, my great-grandpa used to install electric lines on Indian reservations where everyone lived in tepees. He ran the cables to fuse panels in outhouses because they were the only permanent buildings. Great-grand-pappy was one of the first people to ever wire a head for reservations. 

******** GROAN *******

You didn't just post that, did you? 

[ericire12]

Magazines are great for people like me and Mac who don't have internet access in the bathroom.

+1

[Trevor]

Yes, there will be some people who prefer the look and feel of a print publication, but I doubt this number will sustain the publications because the number will be too low to continue to attract advertisers.  Without advertising dollars, print publications will not survive.  In five to ten years, print publications (that is, periodicals and newwpapers) will be a thing of the past.  Books will survive, yet the price for them will be exorbitant.  Expect to pay through the nose for reading on the throne. 

[tombogan03884]

Magazines are great for people like me and Mac who don't have internet access in the bathroom.

BTW, my great-grandpa used to install electric lines on Indian reservations where everyone lived in tepees. He ran the cables to fuse panels in outhouses because they were the only permanent buildings. Great-grand-pappy was one of the first people to ever wire a head for reservations. 

Thats funny ! Even funnier if true ! MY Great Grandfather worked at Portsmouth Navy yard, and after the Spanish American war they experimented with electric lights on war ships. What they did was put a lighting system in a captured Spanish Cruiser. When they got finished they took Her out past the Isles of Shoals and fired a full broadside.
Shattered every bulb on board    That was when they came up with mounting the light fixtures in rubber.