30 YEARS AND COUNTING...
Can it really be that [The] Shooting Gazette is 30 years old? Can it really be that I am the only original correspondent and contributor left standing? It makes you think.
So how have things changed in the intervening three decades? Well, the magazine has a great deal more colour in it than in 1989. This is because colour was so expensive to produce and reproduce that only significant feature articles could be illustrated with it.
The advertisements, on the other hand, were largely in colour because the advertisers knew this would make them stand out from the rest of the black-and-white mass.
Ah, the advertisements! Who wouldn’t drool over the new Mitsubishi GLXi Liftback 4WD with electric windows and a sunroof which could waft you to 62mph in only a little over 12 seconds for the princely sum of £11,499? Young Ben Samuelson will be biting his biro in two I shouldn’t wonder. And then there are the guns, of course. A pair of Purdeys would set you back £32,000
