October 28th, 2009
Last July I mentioned that a new digital magazine about AR Guns and Hunting called, um, AR Guns & Hunting, was on the way from Grand View Media Group and that it would be edited by Predator Xtreme’s Ralph Lermayer. Well, it’s here:
AR Guns & Hunting
Volume 1, Issue 1
Read the premier issue, which is packed with a lot of great stuff. I’ll have to spend a little more time looking, but two articles that jump right out at Murdoc are Calibers that Hunt by Peter B. Mathiesen and AR Snafus by Kevin Murmatsu.
Overall, it looks like a major winner, and not only for hunters. I encourage you to check it out.
A note on the format: I was talking to Ralph at an event earlier this month and made the mistake of asking when his new web site would going live. He immediately corrected me with a “it’s not a ‘web site’…it’s an online magazine.” And that is exactly what it is, laid out like a traditional print magazine but incorporating multimedia such as video into its pages. The interface works well and the pages are absolutely beautiful, but those used to surfing standard web page publishing may be a little put off. An upside is that you can download the entire 140-page issue via Google Gears for reading while offline.
October 28th, 2009 at 11:59 am
“He immediately corrected me with a “it’s not a ‘web site’…it’s an online magazine.” ”
yeah, “the escapist” tried the same thing when they started up. they got over it. mostly because people hated it and they werent making any money.
i figure this “magazine” will get over it too, or go broke. i for damn sure wont give it my eyeballs until someone figures out that the web is the web, and print is print, and never the two shall (or SHOULD) meet.