Goodbye to “Sporting rifle” magazine

[forest of dean redneck 12,022]

I stopped buying mags probably 20 year ago when I realised they all repeated  theirselves 

Air gun mags ,sea fishing mags , countryman’s weekly etc either every year or 2 years they trot same articles.

plus price going up was a factor

[Dervburner 2,549]

5 hours ago, Meece said:

A friend does target air pistol and air rifle shooting at a club.these blokes are pretty serious about it and have rifles and pistols costing Many hundreds.  All of this target work is 177 stuff and they use wadcutter pellets. I had a 20 cal air rifle and my mate asked for a handful of my H N .20 wadcutter pellets.  He took them to the club and secretly dropped 2 or three into the tins of the other shooters along the line whilst they were concentrating on taking aim. . Eventually one of these pellets was picked out and it wouldn't chamber. Now these serious types had to have a technical enquiry about this occurrence.   Then someone else had one. !!! vernier micrometers were brought to bear. There  was a committee of enquity set up and draft letters to the importer of H N pellets established as to how there appeared to be 20 cal H N pellets in a spread of tins of 177 H N match pellets. !!   my mate watched on with amusement but never let on that it was him playing them up. No one ever twigged that it was anything other than a quality control issue at HN. It really did some of their heads in trying to work it out. 

Great story.You’ve got to love.20 cal

[The one 8,586]

Ive stopped all my subscriptions its usually the same old during the summer but its started early due to covid , My son bought me a big box of 50s mixed hunting mags for my Christmas i plan to start on them then read all the earth dog running dog mags a hour each night 

[shovel leaner 7,650]

39 minutes ago, The one said:

Ive stopped all my subscriptions its usually the same old during the summer but its started early due to covid , My son bought me a big box of 50s mixed hunting mags for my Christmas i plan to start on them then read all the earth dog running dog mags a hour each night 

What’s happening with EDRD ? I stopped my subscription a while back . Dave Harcombe I think was struggling a bit and it went down to only a few copies a year . 

[forest of dean redneck 12,022]

14 minutes ago, shovel leaner said:

What’s happening with EDRD ? I stopped my subscription a while back . Dave Harcombe I think was struggling a bit and it went down to only a few copies a year . 

Thought it stopped ?

[shovel leaner 7,650]

2 hours ago, forest of dean redneck said:

Thought it stopped ?

Ahh , I did wonder .

[The one 8,586]

Aye its stopped there was talk of somebody taking it over but i think Darcey was the only name mentioned 

[Alsone 789]

I think there are a lot of issues at play.

Many retailers won't stock shooting magazines as they're either too niche or they don't want to offend snowflakes customers by having them on the shelves.

Another issue is magazines in general are falling popularity and have a limited future. As cover prices have gone up, I think more and more people are baulking at the idea of paying £4-5 for something they read once then chuck out. When magazines were £1.99-2.50, many people didn't think twice but with price hikes and the avilaibility of stuff to read on the internet, many other magazines are now falling by the wayside and not just in shooting. Several massive sporting titles in other sports have disappeared.

Edited February 23, 2021 by Alsone

[villaman 9,982]

Mags had there day now shame really, I enjoyed readers wives