Miserableolgit Posted December 19, 2023 Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 Anyone sub to the online country / shooting / fishing / hunting / magazine blog thingy "Scribehound" - if so is it worth it?Scribehound.com After many years, well decades, of buying and subbing to Shooting Times I'm thinking of cancelling my subscription so am looking for something - preferably online - to fill the void. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old'un Posted December 19, 2023 Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 Never seen that before but looks like there's some interesting reads. I used to have the shooting times but stopped buying it after about 30 years as I found it was just rehashing old articles, got a bit bored with it in the end, although there was the odd piece that was worth a read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted December 19, 2023 Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 There are some interesting topics on their Instagram feed, but haven’t subscribed so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted December 19, 2023 Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 I'll take a look into this. I use to subscribe to a few shooting magazines, but one by one, I cancelled them. Sproting Gun and Shooting Sports were almost identical so the Shooting Sports went. Sporting Gun is now getting boring for me and that too will be cancelled in a few months. I only have GunMart and Rifle Shooter now, which so far, are okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stimo22 Posted December 19, 2023 Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 7 minutes ago, steve_b_wales said: I'll take a look into this. I use to subscribe to a few shooting magazines, but one by one, I cancelled them. Sproting Gun and Shooting Sports were almost identical so the Shooting Sports went. Sporting Gun is now getting boring for me and that too will be cancelled in a few months. I only have GunMart and Rifle Shooter now, which so far, are okay. Sporting gun has been taken over by another publisher by the look of it. The proof reading must be nonexistent as there are loads of errors. There are less competitions and they have stopped taking letters to the editor. I will not be renewing my subscription when it runs out. Countrymans weekly is now every two weeks and is a good read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feltwad Posted December 19, 2023 Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 I find that most articles in shooting magazines are reprints or far from the truth. The Shooting Times published an article some months ago on Smythe of Darlington which gave a bad representation of a gunmaker known has GUN MAKER OF THE NORTH. I complained to the Shooting Times that what was published was far from the truth but I never had a reply Feltwad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miserableolgit Posted December 19, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 (edited) These days the postal service here is a bit hit and miss which means copies are tending to arrive late. I'm also just not drawn to reading it cover to cover like I was when the old regulars like John Humphries, "BB", Colin Willock etc etc were still with us. The end result is copies tend to sit about half read then added to the ever growing pile of half read ones that I eventually pass on to our village postman who does a bit of shooting as well. I know this has been discussed before but it's the same old story I guess, especially when you get older and long standing publications become repetitive - and increasingly run by youngsters who have land, the right connections so spend all their time getting invitations to shoot all over the country. I've stopped subs more than once in the past but found I sort of missed dipping in to it usually over breakfast - odd really, more of a habit than anything I suppose. Over the years I also bought Sporting Gun and Countryman's weekly and occasionally one of the posh ones plus the membership mags from BASC, NGO, CA and others that build up into piles that eventually either get passed on, thrown away - apologies recycled. I have tended to save the Gamefair, Christmas and other "special issues" of ST that eventually get added to older piles of "special editions to be saved" stored in the loft, but these rarely get looked at again and in the past eventually got skipped or left behind when we've sold up and moved house. Edited December 19, 2023 by Miserableolgit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted December 19, 2023 Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 (edited) Thanks for heads up, just subscribed to Scribehound, looks good with most of my interests included and some that aren't [yet] first month free and at about £1 per a week after. Some on here with a writers bent scully "e.g" could send in their stories Edited December 19, 2023 by islandgun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old'un Posted December 19, 2023 Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 17 minutes ago, Feltwad said: I find that most articles in shooting magazines are reprints or far from the truth. The Shooting Times published an article some months ago on Smythe of Darlington which gave a bad representation of a gunmaker known has GUN MAKER OF THE NORTH. I complained to the Shooting Times that what was published was far from the truth but I never had a reply Feltwad Some years back I was at the Weston Park Game Fair and paid a visit to the Shooting Times stand and I got talking to John Batley (spelling?) I pulled him about some of his pigeon shooting articles in the shooting times, he laughed and said….”well they are mainly aimed at the novice pigeon shooter, and yes, a lot of it is made up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted December 19, 2023 Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 1 hour ago, Stimo22 said: Sporting gun has been taken over by another publisher by the look of it. The proof reading must be nonexistent as there are loads of errors. There are less competitions and they have stopped taking letters to the editor. I will not be renewing my subscription when it runs out. Countrymans weekly is now every two weeks and is a good read It has. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbob Posted December 19, 2023 Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 I used to get loads of shooting mags but most ended up on a pile till i played catch up to read them so i stopped them all as they just repeat each other at any given time of the season , I would sooner be out there doing about than reading about it anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmo9 Posted December 19, 2023 Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 If you’re into huntin’, shootin’ and fishin’ magazines.. Subscribe to Readly.. It’s all there and downloadable too, for £9.99 a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted January 5 Report Share Posted January 5 (edited) Excellent article in Scribehound today, "Predator Control what the Conservation Industry really think" worth a look, I think you can have a read without subscribing but Im not sure that would be that happy if i posted the article Edited January 5 by islandgun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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