Because of a lifelong interest in guns, I subscribed to and saved around 50 years of gun magazines. These would include The American Rifleman, Guns Magazine, Guns and Ammo, and Shooting Times. Like most youngsters I started out without a lot of money and could usually only afford one or two subscriptions at a time, but as the years passed subscribed to all four of these, plus picked up magazines by other publishers here and there, sometimes off the newsstand, etc.
I always thought that they might come in handy for reference, and a few times they did, but overall not so much. About 20 years worth have been 3-hole punched and are in 3-ring binders. That would be the more current ones from the mid '80s to about 2010. All the earlier ones are stored in sturdy boxes sorted by year and month. Beginning around 2010 I discontinued saving them. Overall, very few issues are missing, probably not more than a dozen out of all those years and titles. In many cases they have an index for an entire year's content as a first page in the binders.
Now I'm planning on moving across the state sometime next year and must either take them along again, which I've done a couple of times before, or dispose of them. I'm getting well along in years and doubt if I'll ever use them for reference again, but really hate to just trash them out. I offered them to the local library, but was told that they'd recycle them. I offered them to Cornell Publications, but they already have another donated collection of the same publications and years.
So what I would like to do is to give them to someone or some organization that would like to have them. There would be no cost for the magazines, but I would have to be reimbursed for shipping. They are HEAVY! Probably UPS would be the way to go, or even truck freight, and I'd be quite willing to ship just a box or two at a time. The best possible solution would be for someone that wanted them badly enough to come by my shop and pick them up. It amounts to just about a pickup truck load full.
When moving time arrives I'm going to bring in a dumpster and dispose of lots unwanted items, and if the magazines are still here they'll have to go into the dumpster for recycling. So.....there it is. Posts or PMs welcome.