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I am sad to report that Precision Shooting has closed their doors. I was a little worried last month when their normally reliable delivery was 10 days late and today I found this notice:

http://www.precisionshooting.com/

on their website. The October issue was the last. Although the content quality had slipped a bit in recent years, except for Michael's articles of course, it was still the best shooting publication and the only one I regularly read.

A sad event. I started with a subscription to "The Tactical Rifle" in 1998, then it was discontinued and I got the "The Accurate Rifle" in it's place, and finally for the last ten years or so "Precision Shooting".

The market is just too small I suppose.

Shoot

As a life member of NBRSA since the 1960's, I have not paid for my subscription to Precision Shooting for years. Had I known of the problem, I would have been glad to become a paying subscriber, rather than a freeloader.

The same does not hold true to with my life membership in NRA, which similarly excuses me from paying for the American Rifleman, a publication I seldom glance at when it arrives.

I think the internet, esp. forums like this one, are a bigger part of the problem. And not just PS. Just about every magazine is seeing the same thing. Advertiser dollars are pulling out as a result and because they have other, maybe better, places to be put.

It is progress I guess. I don't like it but this forum (and others) have advantages that magazines do not. And those advantages extend well beyond just the price of admission.

Seems like it was only yesterday that Dave Brennan ask me to write an article about Griffin & Howe. I turned him down, said there was a lot more to American custom gunmakers than G&H. I explained that the there were a lot of good people before and after G&H and to tell the story that I wanted to tell I needed to start at the beginning. We went back and fourth for a while and I think more out of frustration than anything he said write what you want and if it's not too far out I'll print it. From then on that is how it worked, I wrote them and he published them ;-).

Hard to believe that was sixteen years ago. As you all know, I'm not a very prolific writer. Good thing I'm not doing this for a living. Writing takes place when the search for a rifle and the research on the maker is over.

I have enough material for volume-two of my book, PS has two articles that did not get published so those will be included.

I have a lot on my plate right now but in a few weeks I'll start talking to book publishers and do the next volume myself.

I'm still searching, researching and writing although I'm not sure where they will go now. Volume-three is not out of the question.

Heck I publish everything here first anyway. I use this place as a sounding board and iron out a few of the wrinkles.



"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." Frank Clark

Michael I will be one of your first customers. Whitey

I've learned a lot from PS over the years....sorry to see it gone.

When I first subscribed, PS was little more than a pamphlet, more like a newsletter, with few articles, mostly match results. The only article of any note that I can remember was a three part discussion, written by Gary Anderson, of three position free rifle shooting.

Then it suddenly took off and became the full fledged magazine it was until its demise, what the American Rifleman used to be, dedicated solely to shooting. I can only hope that it might find away to continue to exist on line, where magazines are increasingly finding a home.

As an occasional writer, I'm glad I am running out of energy as the written word is slowly dying.