PULL! magazine - the future.

[Jan Powell]

Following on from the Instagram topic what, I wonder, is the future of the magazine? In an internet and social media age it seems more and more irrelevant, particularly as i'm betting most recipients thumb through it then throw it away.

My county updates the county CPSA webpage and Facebook site at least once a week. The flexibility of social media allows updates at events as they happen and shooters are joining at the rate of several per week.

Skeet Shooting Review is moving to an internet only publication from next month. Once the CPSA realise how much money they can save i'm guessing they'll be going the same way.

 

[andypandy]

I must admit that I don't buy any shooting magazines at all now but I do enjoy thumbing through my copy of PULL, but it's not the shooting articles I'm reading, I'm looking for adverts for bits of kit that I find interesting, I then check out their websites and I might or might not buy from them.  Without PULL or the other magazines many of these small companies might struggle to find a market for their products!

When I have visited the British Shooting Show in previous years, I always pick up a show guide which includes all the websites of the companies participating, this single publication keeps me amused for months.

 

[Jan Powell]

I must admit that I don't buy any shooting magazines at all now but I do enjoy thumbing through my copy of PULL, but it's not the shooting articles I'm reading, I'm looking for adverts for bits of kit that I find interesting, I then check out their websites and I might or might not buy from them.  Without PULL or the other magazines many of these small companies might struggle to find a market for their products!

You're probably right, but there's no reason why this couldn't continue should the magazine move to an internet only version.

 

[ips]

pull is as rubbish as every other shooting mag Imo. Takes me two minutes to flick through just in case there is anything of interest ....... There seldom is.

 

[Will Hewland]

It's already online. Not sure why they bother paying for the hard copy.

 

[Skeetfreak]

Skeet Shooting Review is moving to an internet only publication from next month. Once the CPSA realise how much money they can save i'm guessing they'll be going the same way.

Skeet Shooting Review (SSR) is sadly the victim of the "sporting clays" magazine (NSCA magazine) contract being due to renewal at the end of 2015.

They have chosen to combine "sporting clays" and "skeet shooting review" and formed a new magazine "Clay Target Nation"

It WILL be available in printed format publication as part of your $40 pa membership fee + $24 shipping fee if you live outside of mainland USA (so $64 total)

OR

You can choose to receive it in e-zine format instead for a annual membership of $30.

I am really hoping the new magazine is still good as i liked SSR a lot and read it pretty much cover to cover. I have pretty much zero interest in reading articles about sporting or trap so hoping they keep a high % of dedicated skeet articles.

For the reason above PULL gets about 5 mins of my attention (if that). Your right magazines are a dying breed - the very thing we are doing now using the internet is their downfall. Same as social media & phones / tablets is leading to the slow down of chat forums.

 

[Deershooter]

Pull mag is not worth the paper it's written on, the best and most informative book is the free clay shooter publication available at most grounds and shops it would pay the CPSA to have a few pages in that rather than publish there own . Let's be honnist as Jan says most people read their  county news the fixtures and possibly the odd review 

its not some thing I would miss 

Deershooter 

 

[andypandy]

You're probably right, but there's no reason why this couldn't continue should the magazine move to an internet only version.

Perhaps the CPSA could offer a discount if you refused the hard copy version!

 

[ips]

agree with deershooter, that free one is best BUT still would not spend money on it.

 

[Doctor Lecter]

have to agree with deershooter  , the free publication  "clay shooter "   is a top draw read  its  really informative  and well produced .   pull mag  should  pull the plug ,   :smile:   

 

[Rosso]

Would never use / join Facebook. Seen it cause to much hassle, takes up too much time. Then there's Instagram and all the others, all people do is look at this stuff every waking minute of the day. You can't even walk down a street without some idiot on the phone barging into you.

whats so wrong with reading a mag. Writing a letter. Telling the time on a wrist watch. Most of the kids today can't tell the time on a proper time piece.

 

[andypandy]

Would never use / join Facebook. Seen it cause to much hassle, takes up too much time. Then there's Instagram and all the others, all people do is look at this stuff every waking minute of the day. You can't even walk down a street without some idiot on the phone barging into you.

whats so wrong with reading a mag. Writing a letter. Telling the time on a wrist watch. Most of the kids today can't tell the time on a proper time piece.

Is technology leaving you behind Rosso?    

 

[Jan Powell]

Would never use / join Facebook. Seen it cause to much hassle, takes up too much time. Then there's Instagram and all the others, all people do is look at this stuff every waking minute of the day. You can't even walk down a street without some idiot on the phone barging into you.

whats so wrong with reading a mag. Writing a letter. Telling the time on a wrist watch. Most of the kids today can't tell the time on a proper time piece.

There's many aspects of social media that irritate me, the problem is it's what so many are using. The rate at which shooters have signed up to our county CPSA page suggests within a  year it'll have just about replaced other forms of communication. It'll get to the point that you'll have to have a Facebook account to find out what's happening.

 

[schmokinn]

dorset doesn't have a facebook page,south west region updated once a month or so reiterating something from the Cpsa main site.

dorset page on the main site sometimes goes months without anything changing...honestly i think most of the people on these committtees are of an age where they will never really do social media,keeping my head down for Wylyes' response not having a pop at them guess its just a younger thing.

not quite sure why whats in pull doesn't come up on the dorset pages of the cpsa site in the news section?

they did make mention of a new site next year...lets hope they get there moneysworth this time as i reckon i could have done the one they have now!

 

[Rosso]

Is technology leaving you behind Rosso?    

Nope. I have hi tech stuff. iPads, iPhones, latest tv. Everything wifi. About to buy the wife the latest ovens as the 35 year old ones have packed up, I'm talking touch pad steam generator combi,s, I buy and use what I find useful. I work in a college and have seen the grief Facebook causes, it's not for me. Life does not revolve around face book. 

 

[Xaphan]

I have to agree with Rosso Facebook is a blight. soooo many arguments are caused by that bloody jumped up website, I've never signed up to it for that reason, but I do fear that as Jan powell pointed out that everything seems to be heading over to it if you want to be kept up to date on things, its slowly getting to the point where one might have to sign up eventually and I'm far from being a techno-phobe, I've got a PC worth over £2k with 3 monitors rigged up to it and a network running through my entire house connecting all other PC's in the household to a server

 

[RobertBeard]

Not that I am holding a candle for Pull but there are no doubt older members who are not computer literate and don't intend to use a computer if they can help it.  That will be the excuse wheeled out I am sure.  It is not very exciting as everything we need is online and the local reports are usually long out of date and the printed version of fixtures can be more up to date and right online.

I spend enough time on here and elsewhere for my other interests and use this as my primary online shooting interest.  You cannot be doing with them all as there is just too much with Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In, Instagram, Tapatalk and blogs. 

Linked-In is of no interest now that I am retired.  Twitter is one way traffic and I don't hang on the words of those who tweet.  Its got to have two way potential so you can discuss or express a point of view and Facebook is too public for that IMHO.

 

[Nimbusgb]

Times change. I used to subscribe to a gliding magazine, a light aircraft mag, two sailing mags and regularly bought pc/technical mags, newspapers and other publications. Can't bear to think how many thousands of pounds I've dumped into recycling! No way to search old articles or cross reference articles. Articles out of date the day they hit the doormat. Can't store them. 

My 80 year old mom facebooks, skypes and uses email. Quite frankly I think we are at the point where the microsoft/apple/ principle is in effect. It's time to satisfy the 80% of the technically adept market and let the 20% either deal with it or pay for their own solution. Yes digital media can take over your life but like all things one needs to exercise restraint and take measures to protect your data.

 

[ExSCA]

I like a magazine, and read quite a few - but mostly on my ipad - I subscribe to the digital version of about half a dozen. 

Wouldn't miss PULL at all.