mickyh Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 Havent bought it for years,so I've been getting them for the last few months. Have they turned it into Dog Magazine ? This week they have an article on Pigeons with an Air Rifle from a hide ? There are loads of Mags. doing Dogs,AirRifles etc. Whats going on ? I wont be buying another for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
browning123 Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 (edited) Yes the magazine is not as good as they used to be, i first stated buying it in the late fifties and some of the best writers have long gone! Edited October 10, 2013 by browning123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gutty Boots Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 After subscribing to ST & Sporting Gun for many years ( mainly as presents from the family.) I told the missus not to bother anymore, there's only so much anyone can write before they start to repeat themselves & it seems both of those magazines suffer from that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Mat Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 I stopped reading Shooting Times after John Humphreys passed away. It was his articles that kept me buying it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itchy trigger Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 I stopped reading Shooting Times after John Humphreys passed away. It was his articles that kept me buying it! +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
browning123 Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 I stopped reading Shooting Times after John Humphreys passed away. It was his articles that kept me buying it! Yes I agree, I met him at his last Midland Game fair in 2011 he was on the Shooting Times stand - he let me handle "Roaring Emma" his wildfowling gun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotslad Posted October 11, 2013 Report Share Posted October 11, 2013 I've been buying it for a good few years now and while it probably could be better but in fairness there is only so much u can write about shooting. When i was a lot younger i used to buy Trout and salmon after a year or 2 u could almost predict the articles. To be far to ST still miles ahaed of any other shooting mag, in my opinion. In fact most other ones are rubbish. I get sent that modern gamekeeper mag i do open it and then usually throw it striaght in bin, dunno who'd ever pay for it. Been first time for a while been any mention of airguns in ST, and i would actually like more stuff about gundogs in the ST this week was only an extra 2 pages. Without dogs there wouldn't be much shooting Wot other mag's are doing more stuff about gundogs? Might consider changing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clumber Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 I still buy as I think as an all rounder it's better than the rest. The weekly change of writers such as Lindsey Waddell and Mike Swan give different perspectives on upland/lowland keeping which I find interesting. On the old guys, Colin Willock (Town Gun) as well as John Humphreys were the first reads then the rest. Willocks books TOWN GUN and THE BEDSIDE WILDFOWLER are great reads. I nearly stopped buying the mag when a certain writers rifle "barked" across the pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazooka Joe Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 I stopped reading Shooting Times after John Humphreys passed away. It was his articles that kept me buying it! On the old guys, Colin Willock (Town Gun) as well as John Humphreys were the first reads then the rest. Others if I remember correctly was Gough Thomas, & Geoffrey Boothroyd, who wrote some excellent articles between them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 I've read them all over the years but ST is the only one I read on a regular basis.You can only read so much about pigeon shooting,ferreting,game shooting and wildfowling etc and it all gets a bit repetitive after a while.Enjoyed J. Humphreys and Colin Willock very much.I like ST for the up to date news items regarding politics etc,and 'sharpshooters' column,but apart from that its just more of the same. Mate subscribes to Sporting Rifle which he then passes on to me.I just flick through it and hand it back to him more often than not.Very little in there to interest me I'm afraid.I'm not saying there's nothing to learn,it's just that I have no interest in big game hunting and reading about shooting foxes gets repetitive and boring also. I think what I enjoyed about J.Humphreys writing was his descriptive powers of the flora and fauna surrounding his days out;how the sun looked,the wind felt,his grand sense of humour,the language he used from an almost bygone age and the way he could string a sentence together.He wrote with a fondness and affection that most nowadays can't emulate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krugerandsmith Posted October 16, 2013 Report Share Posted October 16, 2013 Havent bought it for years,so I've been getting them for the last few months. Have they turned it into Dog Magazine ? This week they have an article on Pigeons with an Air Rifle from a hide ? There are loads of Mags. doing Dogs,AirRifles etc. Whats going on ? I wont be buying another for a while. The very reason I stopped buying it myself... Others should change their names to the Doggie Gazette. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted October 16, 2013 Report Share Posted October 16, 2013 If you like Colin Willock's writing find yourself a copy of 'Landscape with Solitary Figure'. I still buy as I think as an all rounder it's better than the rest. The weekly change of writers such as Lindsey Waddell and Mike Swan give different perspectives on upland/lowland keeping which I find interesting. On the old guys, Colin Willock (Town Gun) as well as John Humphreys were the first reads then the rest. Willocks books TOWN GUN and THE BEDSIDE WILDFOWLER are great reads. I nearly stopped buying the mag when a certain writers rifle "barked" across the pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted October 16, 2013 Report Share Posted October 16, 2013 Not forgetting the evocative and wonderful BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford). For me it was at it's best before the shiny paper. As a child I used to eagerly wait for my dad to finish reading it so I could get my chance, BB, Country Gun and Town Gun's articles in that order, and then the rest. Richard Prior seems to have been around for ever too. Others if I remember correctly was Gough Thomas, & Geoffrey Boothroyd, who wrote some excellent articles between them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted October 16, 2013 Report Share Posted October 16, 2013 After subscribing to it for a few years, I rang up to cancel my subscription. "Why?" I was asked. I told her "I used to enjoy it." Now that I have a kindle fire, I was going to subscribe electronicly but I bought a paper copy to sure before I committed to a tenner a month. After reading it, I didn't bother my ****. I get much greater value and information (and entertainment) from PW and other forums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted October 16, 2013 Report Share Posted October 16, 2013 iv not bought one for years, they have seemed to have down hill not worth the money, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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