$16 is the same as a magazine subscription. most magizines come every month, or less. alot of the ones i get are only half full of articles that interest me. PMA is like getting a new magazine every couple days. more, bigger deer than RACK magazine, better info than deer & deer hunting, more humor than mad magazine (or that one page of playboy), and you get to help support a site that you have been enjoying, for free, for years. drop $16 if you have a year to decide if it was worth it. that comparison to a magazine subscription is spot on. join the PMA, and do a comparison. take any 2 of your hunting magazines, hell, make it 3. everytime you open one of those magazines, keep track of the time you spend, reading, browsing, through the pages. compare that time spent, to the time you spend reading the posts in the PMA. (for the next 2 months) compare the quality of buck in the pages of the magazines to the bucks that show up in the PMA section. if the PMA doesn't rack up 10 times the time/enjoyment spent looking at your favorite magazines, don't renew next year.