Shooting Magazines

[schmokinn]

Why is it that they print so much factually inaccurate crap,i am used to they don't make a bad gun Harker and its just as it should be Yardley.

Perusing Clayshooting today and up pops Peter Pettingale on entry level guns "the MX8 can be bought new for £4300 and is hard to source secondhand" along with a plethora of other inaccuracies.

Well Peter i'll take ten!

I guess seen as they only have a part time editor these days it is just the norm but surely printing constant factual inaccuracies and sometimes pure fantasy that it seems they have dreamed up demeans the worth of the mag.

Thankfully it has only got to entertain me while i am busy in the office

 

[Lloyd Pattison]

I saw that the other day and genuinely had a chuckle. How far out of touch do you have to be to classify the MX8 as a budget gun?

 

[schmokinn]

I saw that the other day and genuinely had a chuckle. How far out of touch do you have to be to classify the MX8 as a budget gun?

Or to describe a 725 as bombproof,with a lowered stock(action)!

I shall immediately be applying for a position as editor in chief as at least i have a clue!  :smile:

 

[Lloyd Pattison]

TBH I saw the perazzi and promptly stopped reading. A glaring error like that that made it through editorial and I was pretty much done.

 

[Salopian]

Yes I have noticed the demise of ClayShooting magazine, latest edition featured three articles by part time editor and two by Harker, but not much else .

How on Earth do you rate a MX8 as an entry level gun?

40 full pages of Adverts, 7 pages of results and fixtures in a total of 90 pages for £4-75. 

This was the final straw I have cancelled ALL my magazines . 

Anyone with a few years buying magazines we see that it is now all rehashed stories or articles from years gone by.

 

[schmokinn]

Yes I have noticed the demise of ClayShooting magazine, latest edition featured three articles by part time editor and two by Harker, but not much else .

How on Earth do you rate a MX8 as an entry level gun?

40 full pages of Adverts, 7 pages of results and fixtures in a total of 90 pages for £4-75. 

This was the final straw I have cancelled ALL my magazines . 

Anyone with a few years buying magazines we see that it is now all rehashed stories or articles from years gone by.

5 for a fiver Xmas offer,almost as cheap as toilet paper......just not so effective.

Mind you they are both at home in the smallest room

 

[Lloyd Pattison]

I bought a subscription because there was an article featuring my photography. I am note sure I shall be renewing at this rate.

 

[Hamster]

Yes I have noticed the demise of ClayShooting magazine, latest edition featured three articles by part time editor and two by Harker, but not much else .

How on Earth do you rate a MX8 as an entry level gun?

40 full pages of Adverts, 7 pages of results and fixtures in a total of 90 pages for £4-75. 

This was the final straw I have cancelled ALL my magazines . 

Anyone with a few years buying magazines we see that it is now all rehashed stories or articles from years gone by.

Way ahead of you, cancelled my copy at the news agents about 14 years ago  :lol: , I even rang the editor once and complained about their daft habit of putting silly small aspect pics of guns they were "testing" instead of at least one of the whole gun so one could see what it looked like, the stupid reply was that they couldn't fit whole pics on. This is just one of the reasons of course but agreed the contents are just pants, I'm surprised they survive at all. 

I used to buy Sporting Gun, Shooting Times and AirGun World too but can't recall the last time I did. The one area America excels compared to us is gun writing. 

 

[Jan Powell]

Way ahead of you, cancelled my copy at the news agents about 14 years ago  :lol: , I even rang the editor once and complained about their daft habit of putting silly small aspect pics of guns they were "testing" instead of at least one of the whole gun so one could see what it looked like, the stupid reply was that they couldn't fit whole pics on. This is just one of the reasons of course but agreed the contents are just pants, I'm surprised they survive at all. 

I used to buy Sporting Gun, Shooting Times and AirGun World too but can't recall the last time I did. The one area America excels compared to us is gun writing. 

Agreed, I get Skeet Shooting Review monthly from the USA. An informative read with plenty of articles to suit all abilities.

Oh, and they manage to send 12 copies of the magazine to the UK and still charge less than half my annual CPSA membership!

 

[westley]

I do NOT buy ANY of the shooting mags, well maybe the odd Shooting Times,  BUT,  I rely solely on Forums to answer the plethora of questions that I need answering  !    :angel:

 

[Cosmicblue]

10 years ago when I started this clay busting journey and eager to explore every avenue in the acquisition of knowledge I bought magazines even had a Clayshooting mag subscription.  It dawned on me that almost all the magazines are advertising revenue platforms interspersed with lightweight editorial of limited use.  The likes of Yardley and Harker aren't going to write anything less than complimentary about any weapon that passes through their hands as that would surely turn off the tap of future opportunities - it's just a commercial reality.

So the days of magazines as printed media is 3 parts over and the future is on-line.   On-line media production and hosting still costs money and the appearance of 'paywalls' to extract a payment is increasingly likely.  

As Westley has pointed out above, Forums such as this are best information sources going today and much more entertaining to read.

 

[ChrisPackham]

  It dawned on me that almost all the magazines are advertising revenue platforms interspersed with lightweight editorial of limited use.  The likes of Yardley and Harker aren't going to write anything less than complimentary about any weapon that passes through their hands as that would surely turn off the tap of future opportunities - it's just a commercial reality.

Except shooting times a couple of weeks ago when they reviewed Kofs and the conclusion was one stop short of ‘its a heap of crap, don’t buy it’

Some magazines are quite entertaining, The field, Fieldports and shooting Gazette are quite good

 

[squimp]

Shooting Gazette seems to be on a serious diet at the moment. It is getting thinner every month.

I agree that the Field and Fieldsports are the best around.

 

[Wonko the Sane]

The one area America excels compared to us is gun writing. 

You mean to say that there actually is one?  Astounding! ! !   Particularly in regard to gun writers/writing since it is an area that exhausted new thought something like a hundred years ago.

 

[ChrisPackham]

I wonder whether this will change anything..

http://www.epiris.co.uk/Media-Centre/?itemid=MTY3ODExODE3MDIzNDAx