'Sporting Rifle Magazine'.

[LuckyEddie]

Have to admit that I won Letter of the Week in the ST back in July ’19.
Still waiting for my prize as I hadn’t realised I’d won as I was away at the time and then back in hospital shortly thereafter.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Have to admit that I won Letter of the Week in the ST back in July ’19.
Still waiting for my prize as I hadn’t realised I’d won as I was away at the time and then back in hospital shortly thereafter.

Snap! We too did the same but I have not quite the same enthusiasm because the subject was my wife shooting a roe bronze medal buck which currently adorns our kitchen wall. Still hurts but I got a nice shooting vest out of it so that evened it up somewhat.

 

[LuckyEddie]

Just remembered I also won 6 bottles of Bishop’s Finger ale, in the Sept’ ‘10 issue of the SR, for submitting my account of grassing this fella on my very first outing

 

[Puds]

Have to admit that I won Letter of the Week in the ST back in July ’19.
Still waiting for my prize as I hadn’t realised I’d won as I was away at the time and then back in hospital shortly thereafter.

I’m currently waiting on my second gilet from them for a letter of the week. I quite enjoy being clothed in return for being grumpy & able to write coherently.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Yep been there etc. I won a gilet too - small consolation for writing to them about my wife’s sodding bronze medal buck. She never mentions the damned thing - ever!

 

[8x57]

I won quite a few book tokens from Shooting Times years ago for little snippets that were printed. All of which were used to add to my bookshelf of sporting/shooting books.

 

[Neddle]

One man ruined the Sporting Rifle, he'll do the same with Shooting Times, www this and www that, The Shootin Shaur

Sadly they have all morphed into an advertising platform for sundry items. Pity really.

 

[Cootmeurer]

Just a sign of the times. We have many more sporting magazines than you do and they are getting thinner and contain less content with more ads each issue.

But, what are they to do. Once upon a time they had a 100,000 or more circulation and at least half of that was at full price off the newsstands. Now they are lucky to have a 1/3 of the circulations and most have dropped their price. They can no longer afford buying a diversity of articles, so they return again and again to their trusty stable of authors that write about “their way” of sport. They fill the rest of the space with ads from who ever will pay the price.

Nowadays there are forums and social media dedicated to specifically that which someone is interesting in, and they don’t have to be troubled with ideas beyond the scope they want to know about. If all I want to know about is hunting stags with spears while on a pogo stick, I can probably find a group.

That last part is what I find the most troubling. While a university student I can remember getting lost in the journal stacks looking for one thing and instead going down rabbit holes that broadened my horizons. I would have never found this site, or first stalked wit Malcolm without a rabbit hole to fall down. Common knowledge in the US was hat after Dunblane(sp?) that all guns and hunting were banned in the UK.

 

[pop1]

I bought my first Shooting Times in 1961. I never missed a copy until this new and present Editor ruined what was left of it. I haven't bought or read a copy for about 4 years. The best Editor ever was Jonathan Young, he supported Wildfowlers and fought our corner back in the Eighties. Wf1.

I agree re the current editor. I stopped buying it after he made comments regarding grouse keepers.
I know Jonathan Young well. He is a gentleman and a countryman!!

 

[mchughcb]

Inevitable in the digital age, People now want content on you tube or FB live.

Why spend a five quid on a rag, then you can watch somebody for free on youtube and then complain about it in the comments?
I haven't bought a hunting magazine in a decade but I love watching other peoples channels with advertising for free and complaining about the quality in the comments section.

 

[Greenmist]

Seems an odd move, a monthly magazine struggling with content to be moved to a weekly, you also have the difference in subscription price, were these announcements in the April editions by any chance??

 

[Howzat]

Last month cancelled my subscription to the Field after thirty years, on the departure of Jonathan Young it has become a womans magazine, predominatly hunting and most articles written by women, and most of the editorial staff are women, also the centre pages are comprised of photographs, a total waste of good narrative space, the back page is a re run of articles from the 1930s , why did Jonathan leave so abruptly I wonder?.

 

[The Bear]

Why spend a five quid on a rag, then you can watch somebody for free on youtube and then complain about it in the comments?
I haven't bought a hunting magazine in a decade but I love watching other peoples channels with advertising for free and complaining about the quality in the comments section.

Come and shout at mine then

 

[Scotty99]

We subscribe Readly just reading a daily each day pays for the subscription quite a few shooting magazines from the UK and USA same with the fishing one. You can have a read of magazines that you would not buy.

Yes I subscribe to Readly. Its great. Just £7.99 a month and you get 5 accounts so 4 others in the family can all get their favourite mags. I have access to over 20 shooting and guitar mags from the UK and the US.

It means you can just cherry pick the articles and topics you want to read from a very broad spectrum of sources. I particularly like Peterson’s Hunting, Guns & Ammo, North American Whitetail and Bowhunter ( yes I know it’s frowned upon here, but everyone should read up on it and research it before condemning it) not sure I could get into position 15 yards from a deer for the kill, but that’s a topic for another day.

 

[mchughcb]

Come and shout at mine then

Lol, I'll give you some advice. Get your playlists sorted into some logical order. Your channel is like a mash potato.

 

[Tazz]

I just read the very latest ST no mention of amalgamatio, does anyone at the ST’s realise there is going to be one with SR because if they do it’s going to be a very stealthy one

 

[stalker.308]

I just read the very latest ST no mention of amalgamatio, does anyone at the ST’s realise there is going to be one with SR because if they do it’s going to be a very stealthy one

The editorial in this months SR is written by the ST editor and specifically talks of it

 

[The Bear]

Lol, I'll give you some advice. Get your playlists sorted into some logical order. Your channel is like a mash potato.

See, shooters even moan when they get it for free.

I have never set up any specific playlists, the videos just get made as and when I get the opportunity.

 

[bogtrotter]

Aye. A great man and an inspiration for many - his son follows in his footsteps I believe? From memory (ever dangerous) Lea used a triple deuce for his stalking until the .240” mimimum came in - but am I correct in this?

I can't remember but it would be nothing to do with .240 minimum as we don't have that law in Scotland but I do know he was a fan of the .243 like many Highland stalkers.
I don't remember shooting .222 but he may well have.

 

[Tazz]

The editorial in this months SR is written by the ST editor and specifically talks of it

Thanks for the note, yes I read the piece in SF my point is I have just read ST 31 March issue, no mention of amalgamation