Just got my copy of Alabama Outdoor News in the mail and see it’s the last one they are printing. They blamed it on declining readership of print media and rising costs which I certainly believe. I hate to see it go as I’m old school and still enjoy sitting down and reading something I hold in my hands besides a phone. I always liked their articles. They had a 15 year run and I guess I read them all.

Hiring Mike Bolton was the beginning of the end.

Probably didn’t help for sure but I’m afraid all print media will be gone in a few more years. The sorry ass Birmingham news has gone to 3 days a week and lots of other magazines are on line. I once subscribed to about 15 publications like field and stream outdoor life sports afield Alabama game and fish progressive farmer wildfowl duck hunters journal and others but one by one they seem to be going away or online.

I liked AON. They did an article on me once for a big gator I killed on Eufaula. I enjoyed reading that magazine more than any of the other sports magazines.

Curious as to why you think this (I don’t have an opinion one way or another).

Sucks to see a magazine like that go down. They at least tried to do a good job of covering local outdoor related topics and highlighting local people who accomplished things as they enjoyed our hobby.

I always felt like they were really the only statewide publication that told the hunting and fishing news and gave updates and announcements. Also was nice to read about the success of people hunting in Alabama, just normal everyday guys like us.

Hate to hear this

Somebody sign him up for Buckmasters

Online forums like Aldeer put them under.

Let’s be honest. That magazine was dogshit! Alabama Game and Fish was dogshit too! I am sure it is hard to keep a magazine like that running. I too like to read magazines rather than look on the internet.

Mike? Is that you?

Big Bore is definitely NOT mike.

Mike Bolton was a hack who lived off his father's coattails at the Birmingham News. His father was a legend amongst sportswriters.

I miss Alf Van Hoose. He was a sports writer. Earned the Silver Star at the Battle of the Bulge.

Alf was a goodun also.

Truck buck was the main attraction for some of us!

At first glance I thought the big tooth bitch in NYC was gone

Is the whole AON going down all together or just going to online only? I know Georgia had a GON has it tanked as well?

When they first came out I loved it, subscribed every year for a while. But then it seemed to turn "generic" like all the other hunting mags (just like "Alabama Game & Fish"). Reading the articles were like listening to coach speak, it didn't mean anything, just filling up the page.

For a while I would tear out the GPS waypoints on the fishing articles and check them out. My opinion was 99% of them were made up

I liked the AON magazine myself I still like to read magazines. Every other "outdoor" magazine is nothing but a advertisement. That's what's really wrong with magazines IMO they just a bunch of BS articles trying to promote products. I get that this is how money is made but at some point hunting magazines use to have articles that were about hunting and worth reading. It's been a long time coming for Outdoor Life and some of those staples they haven't had anything between the covers worth reading in 20 years. There is a magazine called Firearms News that is pretty good if you like guns it use to be called the Shotgun News.