Sports Afield Magazine going TU

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Outdoor magazine Sports Afield announced that it will cease publication this spring, falling victim to one of the worst advertising recessions in years. The magazine will end its 115-year run with its June 2002, issue.
 
Sorry to hear they are going away. I think they started their downward spiral when they drifted into a mountain bike tree hugging magazine a few years ago. They came back to their senses but it was too late. I think there are alot more hunters, shooters, and fisher people willing to buy their magazine than in the bike & kayak crowd.
 
I'm surprised they're still around at all. I cancelled my subscription, aftwer MANY years, when they became a yuppie crap-rag, and I wrote them and told them why. They never responded.

I later heard that they went back to something like the original format, but I don't think I've ever laid eyes on one, not even on a news stand, and was not about to subscribe again after getting screwed the first time around.

This is a needless loss, but they chose to screw the pooch to start with. The responsibility rests with their management, period.
 
I received my June issue of Sports Afield today. I will be sorry to see it go. I did like everyone else and cancelled my subscription when the tree-huggers had a hold on it. Then I happened to pick one up on a newstand and saw that it had been purchased by Robert Petersen (of Petersen's Hunting and Guns and Ammo). I actually like the magazine better now than before it went bad. But I don't guess enough sportsmen rediscovered it.
 
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