Still reading print media?

[Whitworth]

As a kid, I could not wait for the next issue of Hot Rod. I always had 3 of 4 different ones in my bag at school. Once the LS came out, everything became snap together, plug and play. LS engines are the black plastic guns of the hot rod scene.

Also, my dad was a member of the Confederate Air Force. Their warbird mag, Dispatch, was another read that I always enjoyed. Like @Sparks of Dutch Glory shingles, those pages of planes covered my walls.

Now it's all black plastic LS engines and the 'Commemorative' Air Force.

I'm with you, I'm a retired Confederate Air Force Colonel, I retired when they went woke and became the Commemorative Air Force

 

[Miketheblacksmith]

Still get Muzzleloader & Muzzle Blast, both since the 70s. Get Rifle & Handloader & American Rifleman. Dropped the old west magazines . Loved Primitive Archer but they lost me when the went digital. If it isn't printed on paper it's not a magazine for me. Yes I do have all the back issues stored neatly. Do you miss things like Smoke & Fire News & The Buckskin Report?

 

[mikesto44]

Only mag I get anymore is Buck masters. Just because of a good deal. Used to get the NRA mags but no more. Always bought Muzzleloader at the store but they no longer sell to retail stores. Then back in the 60, 70, 80s it was Bowhunter, Buckskinner
I still have the Bowhunter mags.
I quit buying when they started being 80% adds and that's all of them. Times change an not always for the good..

 

[Cubreac]

I subscribe to Muzzleloader and few trade journals. When I was a boy I loved to read my grandfather's American Rifleman and other fish and game magazines. It seems like about twenty years ago the F&G magazines changed from publishing stories to publishing reviews. There were so many articles about the latest gear they looked more like a Cabela's catalogue than an actual Cabela's catalogue. Boring. I always have a book going, but it's becoming more and more difficult to find good books. Maybe I'm just a grumpy, old man. I don't think Lee Wulff, Jim Harrison, Tom McGuane, Richard Ford or even Hemingway would get published today.

 

[Greg_H33]

I subscribe to Muzzleloader and Muzzle Blasts. I enjoy reading both of them.

 

[sturmkatze]

Still get Muzzleloader & Muzzle Blast, both since the 70s. Get Rifle & Handloader & American Rifleman. Dropped the old west magazines . Loved Primitive Archer but they lost me when the went digital. If it isn't printed on paper it's not a magazine for me. Yes I do have all the back issues stored neatly. Do you miss things like Smoke & Fire News & The Buckskin Report?

I don’t miss Smoke & Fire really. Especially after she called me a bunch of names for spring Trump. She’d go to events and get drunk or whatever and send me emails. Uh huh.

 

[Dr. Dirt]

"Bugle" magazine from Rocky Moutain Elk Fountdation has geat hunting stories written by hunters. Also, monthly Rifles and Cartridges articles by Wayne van Zwoll, shooter, hunter, guide, writer.

 

[Marshhawk]

I still get "Outdoor Life" (digital). Also, "Game and Fish"(South edition), "Guns & Ammo" and "Shooting Times," and will continue to do so as long as they stay print magazines. I now will be getting Muzzleloader, but it will be digital -- comes with the membership.

 

[Kicking&Screaming]

Still get Muzzleloader & Muzzle Blast, both since the 70s. Get Rifle & Handloader & American Rifleman. Dropped the old west magazines . Loved Primitive Archer but they lost me when the went digital. If it isn't printed on paper it's not a magazine for me. Yes I do have all the back issues stored neatly. Do you miss things like Smoke & Fire News & The Buckskin Report?

Really miss the Buckskin Report

 

[Rebel bull]

I get mMuzzleloader and muzzle blasts plus NRA’s American Rifleman. Muzzleloader isn’t what it was. Pretty photos, but few articles I really like. I have almost all the old back issues and reread them. I understand they try to service everyone. Okay. It just doesn’t work for me.

i joined the nmlra to read John Curry’s articles. There don’t seem to be many. i have the digital version and it’s kind of a pain to deal with. I don’t care about shoots in Indiana. Since they raised the digital price to $50 a year, this is my last year. I get American rifleman… I rarely read it. I’ve tried all the nra mags and none hold my interest. I might just tell them “no magazine”.

My .2 cents

I also miss the old writers the new crop is just selling stuff that I just don't need. Carmichel, O'Conner, were favorites Patrick McManus was always the first article read

 

[Tanglefoot]

I miss the Buckskin Report, but miss ol’ Dinglehoofer even more. He was a friend. So was the Poltroon and a bunch of others. Still get ML Not MB.

 

[Rebel bull]

I read Muzzleloader cover to cover! In fact my SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER issue showed up this past Friday, 10-25-2024!! Thank you USPS for eventually delivering it two months late...still in pristine condition thanks to the plastic wrapper Jason pays for! THANK YOU, JASON for going that extra step.

I also subscribe to Muzzle Blasts until June when my membership expires. I will NOT renew for $75 a year, even after being a member for 25+ years. MB is not half the magazine Muzzleloader is, and Friendship, Indiana is a thousand miles away, so I will never go again at my age.

I subscribe to the three best woodworking mags and several history periodicals, and will probably add another tool collector magazine with the NeedMoreLooneyRulesAss'n money.

the only reason I still get muzzleblasts is I'm a life member for 20 years plus still waiting to here about this upgrade they are hinting about

 

[blushingmule]

American Rifleman (lifer), Trains and Railroads of the Past; it's quarterly, and Sport Rocketry which is bi-monthly, and finally
Model Aviation from the AMA.

Years ago I dropped the outdoor magazines for the same reasons as some have stated; definitely nothing like the old days.
Sure would like an early '70s Herters catalog to thumb through ;-)

Mule

 

[waksupi]

Outdoor Life, Field and Stream and Sports Afield were all good 60 years ago. They suck now.