About a year ago Guns & Ammo revamped their layout, and they changed their type face in the magazine's articles to be smaller and thinner letters.

Is anyone else out there age 45+ and having trouble reading it like I am?

I wrote them, but got no response at all.

Trashed them some years back and have never renewed. Guess I'm not missing much.

I was a subscriber for about 15 years, started when I was about 9. Learned a lot. Quit for ten years, then subscribed again on a whim. Swore they had all the same articles they'd run years before. Never met a gun they didn't fawn over, even if it jammed every other shot. Cancelled my subscription, tried some others, and was sorely disappointed. Now the only one I subscribe to is American Handgunner, and I have issues going back 20+ years. Sometimes, like today at work with time to kill, I bring in a half-dozen to re-read. Some of the articles are dated, others are just as pertinent as when they were first published. And the photos can't be beat.......anywhere! Now if they'd just lose their obsession with the 45ACP I'd be even happier!

Papajohn

Not being able to read it may be a disguised blessing better not corrected.

Several years ago, I bought a 3 year subscription to G&A. The publisher royally screwed up my first issue by delaying it for 2 months, then sending me the 2 month old issues as part of my subscription. I raised ****, and they doubled my subscription, free! To be honest with you, I really wish they hadn't done it, G&A is little more than a battle of the super-egos, and I rarely read it. Very dull, even the hunting stories. Especially the hunting stories! All the magazine is, is poorly written advertising copy, written mostly by people who couldn't get jobs anywhere else. Especially Wiley Clapp!

I picked up a copy in the waiting room, and I found the layout very difficult to read. Not only, as mentioned, was the type font small and hard to read, but the 'cutesy' layout made it difficult to follow the story and the information they were trying to present. I couldn't easily match the story and the pictures.
I would not be in a rush to buy the magazine with the way it is being produced.

I somehow managed to get it for free for a peiod of years in the late seventies to the early eighties. I remember that was back when you could get ten music albums for a penny if you joined that mail order club, and ofcourse you never bought the other required albums at regular price , and your parents had to bail you out, (I was not quite a teenager at this time) Any how I mailed in one of those first two months free subscription cards and after months of my parents receiving a billing statement that they plain refused to pay, I seemed to get that mag for years and never heard from the billing department again. Granted I was young and impressional at that period of time but correct me if I'm wrong their was something special about that zine back then and the folks that were writing for it . Wooters, Milek , Elmer was still penning some stuff and Sundra , these guys seemed to be shaping the industry and what was offered by the Manufacturers and not just writing a book report on the stuff sent to them that the Manufacturers wanted to be forced down the throat of the gun buying public. One of my sadest memories that I can recall from those days is rushing up the the second floor bathroom after school with the issue that arrived in the mail that day , only to open to the table of contents to find an editorial on the passing of Bob Milek .... I tell no lie when I say that I must have sat on the pot and cried for a half hour. I can only imagine what my Mother was thinking as she pounded on the door asking me if I was alright. That man and his fellow contributors at the time lit a fire under me that has refused to go out all these years and no one I have read since even comes close .


444fitch (WE miss you Bob!)

About a year ago Guns & Ammo revamped their layout, and they changed their type face in the magazine's articles to be smaller and thinner letters.

Is anyone else out there age 45+ and having trouble reading it like I am?

I wrote them, but got no response at all.


No. I read Guns (or Guns & Knives as it really is), American Handgunner, Rifle and Handloader Magazines, and of course American Rifleman. Haven't read Guns and Ammo since the mid 1970's. Shooting Times would be a better choice. I also read Astronomy, Archaeology, Bible Review and Bibical Archaeology, Horse Magazine and PC World, but how much can one dummy read?

axlenut