the latest magazine is awfull!  can't we get some interesting articles to print?  this is like a news letter.  for the most part i am a member because i enjoy the forums but can't we print a decent magazine ?"    art ruggiero

UtahDave wrote on Aug 29^th, 2018 at 2:13pm:


Of course--the thing Rudi always complained about!  (Although the requirement should be, worthy of publication.)

Don't know how SS Exchange is doing, as I haven't taken it since shortly after Brett Boyd sold it to Lee Shaver, but lack of contributions was the reason it included so much material reprinted from Broadfoot's Shooting & Fishing repro.

As a source of material for reprinting, SSJ could draw on many years of "old" but still relevant contributions from members like John Dutcher & many others from the '80s & '90s.

As seems to often be the case nowadays, a copy of an internet address is only partially reproduced when pasted in (note the three dots following yours).   

In short, trying to follow the ASSRA Facebook address you supplied doesn't work.  And, no, this Old Ludite doesn't know how to "fix" it.

Bill Lawrence

Maybe this will work for those who want to use it.

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marlinguy wrote on Aug 29^th, 2018 at 5:38pm:


What I see is "log in" or "create new account".  I don't get it--Facebook (even typing the word nauseates me) serves the needs of orgs & individuals (such as the Chicopee Hist. Soc.) that don't HAVE a website of their own.  What's being accomplished by FB that's not available through the ASSRA website?

I got on (actually, my computer-literate brother got me on) FB so I could keep up with the doings of the family.

Whether it’s trendy fashion or a massive and meaningful Sea-Change in Society in general, people who will no longer send you a paragraph on a Christmas card on what’s happened to them over the previous year, or send two sentences via E-mail (let alone a  real snail-mail letter) will barf their entire daily lives out on Facebook, from “I’m awake!” to “Goodnight!”

At least, I can see that everybody’s still alive and well, so I figure it’s worth it.

The ASSRA FB site, the Cast Boolits site and a Gunsmithing site I somehow got onto are much the same way.  People who’d get writer’s block looking at a Word page on a computer screen seem to be able to overcome this hangup and post hourly updates on their progress in casting, loading, shooting, gun repair or whatever.  Some of it is even interesting!

I, myself, don’t look at goods, services or entertainment in terms of the politics of those performing or providing them.  If it’s Good Stuff, they get my money.  As The Godfather put it so well, “Society imposes insults that must be borne.”

I hope I don’t get flamed but, a few years ago I suggested to Steve Garbe he run an article describing all the different black powder cartridge matches.  He was polite and said it was a good idea but nothing happened.

I think there are many members who could write a great article on one or more of the various types of matches being shot.

What I had in mind is a description of the rules for say silhouette, history, usual winning rifles and loads, sights, tricks and tips, records, match locations, etc.

This could be a series with each issue covering a particular match type.  Judging from the many well written notes on the forum I have no doubt many potential authors are out there.

I have subscribed to the Journal for over ten years and have never seen anything like this explanation.  Sure, I could probably find the rules for the various pursuits on line but it would be great to see the rules in the context of an easy read with attendant discussion.

John

I can only print what I get
When I am dry I reprint articles i think need repeating as us old farts die off and are replaced with new shooters who havent seen the articles or been exposed to the knowledge they have. 
I have contacted some of our most prolific posters from the website and with very few exceptions they reply they wouldn't know what to write. 
From time to time I try to write something interesting but frankly I'm not bright enough to crank out 3 or 4 articles per issue. I have a hard enough time writing a editorial every issue. Can't tell you haw many times I have written something and thought it was really good, then picked it up a few days later and asked who wrote this drivvle.
One other thing don't send me an old article from the American Rifleman and ask me to reprint it. There some good ones and I have asked repeatedly to be given permission to reprint it. They either ignore me or denigh the request.

You can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time. But you can't please all of the people all of the time.  A. Lincon

40 Rod  AKA The editor