Dear Readers: Go Ahead and Shoot

NY Times ^ | 31 May, 2010 | STEPHANIE CLIFFORD

[marktwain]

While people tend to read magazines, those who prefer to point a gun at them might pick up the July issue of Field & Stream.

“Shoot this magazine!” the cover reads, and inside is a pull-out target that spells out “I (Heart) Guns.”

“This is something you cannot do with an iPad,” Philip Bourjaily, the shotguns editor, said, then rethought that statement. “You can take it out and shoot it, but it’s prohibitively expensive.” The target insert from Field & Stream promotes a TV show. The target insert from Field & Stream promotes a TV show.

The magazine is promoting a new Outdoor Channel television show that stars its two gun editors and is based on Gun Nuts, the most popular blog on its Web site.

[marktwain]

This in the New York Times. The Times, they are a'changin'

[Old Teufel Hunden]

“My goal is to shoot some watermelons on the show, things that look good when you shoot them.”

R. Lee Ermey already beat you to it.

[Dr. Sivana]

I can print 100 targets from the online version on the laser printer and shoot them.

[libstripper]

Looks like they’d be good for some fairly complex .22 shooting. A challenge with a rifle and a real challenge with a pistol.

[Tex-Con-Man]

Just as Dian Fossey bravely ventured into the unknown culture of the gorilla, NY Times’ Stephanie Clifford explores the strange “fly-over-country” habits of the bitter-clingers.

She thought to herself as the man spoke of target shooting the magazine, “My fellow Manhattaners knew these people bought magazines...we just didn't know what they did with them...now we do.”