bindi Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 I was in WHSmiths in Heathrow a month ago and had some time spare so I thought I'd go and get a shooting mag. None to be found, so I thought sold out, or looking in the wrong place. I asked a sales assistant if they had shooting times, but she wasn't sure, checked with the manager and the response was. "We have decided not to stock shooting magazines as many people are opposed to shooting" So i said "but you feel fine about your young female staff at the checkout selling dirty old geezers dirty books about tits and fannys?" :*) Jeez, are these people real. They don't even sell them at Kings Cross stn, where you can buy mags on snowboarding, pigeon fancying (wierd) or cross stitching (even more wierd). The only WHS i have found that does sell them was one in Belfast. Whats your experience.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flash Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 i found the same situation at waterloo but i know that most of the smiths around newton abbot down in devon sell most shooting mags like gun mart, sporting gun, airgunner and so on. flash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 Nice answer Bindi, My local newsagent won't stock shooting mags as he is an anti. So much for consumer choice. I subscribe so stuff the lot of them. Cheers MC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 A good friend of mine can often be seen thumbing through the monthly Shooting Mags at his local WHSmiths, before putting them back on the shelf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkBoy Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 When back home at Xmas in Norwich WHS had The Shooting Gazette and Shooting Times...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun-Sean Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 A good friend of mine can often be seen thumbing through the monthly Shooting Mags at his local WHSmiths, before putting them back on the shelf. He sound like a right tight **** axe cheers sean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invector Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 They stock plenty at the Northampton stores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitebridges Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 Load of bo**ocks. Smiths do sell shooting mags (the non porno kind) and they sell them all over the UK. I would suggest the t*at in the London shop just gave you an easy answer. The "do your house up" and "share portfolio" stuff is more in demand down there and it;s a better use of shelf space. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bindi Posted January 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 Well I've tried a good few shops (although the rural ones do tend to be better), and none at LHR or MAN airports have them. Believe me they stock some real bizarre stuff there too, but the nearest you'll get to a shooting mag is Field or Country Life. But they do have Razzle, Readers Wives, Parade, Club, Penthouse, Mayfair, Just 18 etc. (yes my knowledge of these is quite good, and my preference is for Club!!) I really do believe it to be down to anti-shooting bods. Now if you are into skateboarding there's a mag for you. cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wol the hunter Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 I was in WHSmiths in Heathrow a month ago and had some time spare so I thought I'd go and get a shooting mag. None to be found, so I thought sold out, or looking in the wrong place. I asked a sales assistant if they had shooting times, but she wasn't sure, checked with the manager and the response was. "We have decided not to stock shooting magazines as many people are opposed to shooting" So i said "but you feel fine about your young female staff at the checkout selling dirty old geezers dirty books about tits and fannys?" :*) Jeez, are these people real. They don't even sell them at Kings Cross stn, where you can buy mags on snowboarding, pigeon fancying (wierd) or cross stitching (even more wierd). The only WHS i have found that does sell them was one in Belfast. Whats your experience.? :( Wan?ERS :thumbs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Master Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 Hi, The Chippenham WHsmiths stocks Airgun World, Airgunner, Shooting Times, The Field, Gun Mart, Sporting shooter, Shooting Gazette as well as a few others. :( I generally buy my Airgun World from Smiths and my Shooting Times from Sainsbury's. FM :thumbs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rapidsteve Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 all w h smiths at airports DO NOT stock shooting mags.its there 4k*n policy not to do so.ive had row after row about it everytime i fly out from what ever airport. start complaining otherwise we aint going to be heard. spoke to manager after manager,they dont care. i walk into my local smiths read them all then walk out. i wont buy nowt from them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 i find a lot of shops dont sell shooting mags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nildes Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 Hi, The Chippenham WHsmiths stocks Airgun World, Airgunner, Shooting Times, The Field, Gun Mart, Sporting shooter, Shooting Gazette as well as a few others. I generally buy my Airgun World from Smiths and my Shooting Times from Sainsbury's. FM Chipnum? I grew up there many years ago :thumbs: Smiths used to be at the bottom of Station Hill when I did my paper round for them :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browning GTS Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 All the Smiths that i go in sell them. Aylesbury, High Wycombe, Congalton and Marylebone Station to name a few. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Master Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 Hi, The Chippenham WHsmiths stocks Airgun World, Airgunner, Shooting Times, The Field, Gun Mart, Sporting shooter, Shooting Gazette as well as a few others. I generally buy my Airgun World from Smiths and my Shooting Times from Sainsbury's. FM Chipnum? I grew up there many years ago Smiths used to be at the bottom of Station Hill when I did my paper round for them :( Hi, Smiths is now at the bottom of the high street next to the river. Did you grow up in this great town? :thumbs: FM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old rooster Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 Maybe you need to be the only gay in the village, always seem to have plenty of books for them on the shelves, nice wholesome lifestyle that needs encouraging you see :( :thumbs: It is annoying that the airports don't stock the mags, I travel a fair bit and knowing that make sure that I take mine with me. Another of those issues of principle I guess but at the end of the day we as consumers don't have to use WHS or any other retail outlet if we choose not to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antuk99 Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 Bradfords ok 1 of my mates mates had a problem at a shop once trouble is that he's a plasterer mixed some stuff in the van put his boots on dip and walked into shop :*) don't condone this :( :thumbs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invector Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 The post office, next to our gunshop, only sells Gun Mart. How many could he sell if he stocked `em all, right next to a gunshop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveK Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 WHS in Wakefield stocks a good range as does the one at the white Rose centre in Leeds. ASDA doesn't stock any because there isn't the demand apparently. Maybe everyone should contact their local ASDA and ask for shooting magazines to be stocked. As a matter of interest, everyone wants Landrover Owner International. They must do cos it's stocked. As are fishing magazines and horsey ones that everyone reeeeeely wants. Tesco stock Shooting Times. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 w h smiths, sell them all in my town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilishdave Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 I used to read ST in tesco whils the wife was shoping. She got so sick of it she got me a subscription :( :thumbs: Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nildes Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 Hi, The Chippenham WHsmiths stocks Airgun World, Airgunner, Shooting Times, The Field, Gun Mart, Sporting shooter, Shooting Gazette as well as a few others. I generally buy my Airgun World from Smiths and my Shooting Times from Sainsbury's. :o FM Chipnum? I grew up there many years ago Smiths used to be at the bottom of Station Hill when I did my paper round for them :( Hi, Smiths is now at the bottom of the high street next to the river. Did you grow up in this great town? FM I gave up the paper round when I got a Saturday Job beating for Featherstone-Godley over half the country around Lyneham Banks, Tytherton etc. He was a grumpy old bastid but he could shoot anything. He used to get lots of London guns down. If he saw one missing too many, he'd pick off a few birds over them from about 40 yds away and then congratulate them on their shooting Used to get ten bob a day as a lad and 12s 6d if you were over fifteen, plus a bottle of Wadworths IPA at lunchtime and a brace or a hare to take home. That was worth another half crown. Bunked school Fridays to go cow-banging at the Cattle Market for whatever the farmer's would give you. Yep, I grew up there, left the Secondary Modern at sixteen for an apprenticeship at Westinghouse :thumbs: Still got the accent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Master Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 Hi, The cattle market has now closed. The 2 secondarys are now Sheldon and Hardenhuish. (I'm at Sheldon ) My Dad has just informed me he went to the boys school then went up to the Grammar school. FM P.S Westinghouse brakes is still here. Somethings never change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 Its a bit far from you but the wh smith in coventry does sell them. Terry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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