CQC Magazine
Free Back Issues of the old (paper) CQC Magazine!
Please keep in mind, most of the news material is outdated. All of the contact information is outdated and changed. However, many of the articles in these magazines are timeless. Please take one moment and read about the short history of our magazine down below.
To download the whole magazine for free, just click right on the cover of the magazine you want.
    
    
    
    
(21 issues, each published bi-monthly. 3 1/2 half years worth of how-to articles and geopolitical commentary--much of it prophetic. 14,000 subscribers in 29 countries, plus USA bookstore sales.)
Then, starting in the spring of 2004 - Close Quarter Combat Magazine became paper The Hochheim Group Report. Click on the covers below to download the pdfs.
    
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A Brief History of SFC Publications, CQC Dispatches and our old CQC Magazine
All organizations need ways a way to communicate. It is essential Business 101. In the 1990s I published the monthly "Congressional State of the Union," a newsletter for the Scientific Fighting Congress (SFC). Nothing more than a handbill, really. This evolved into a small popular, multi-page copy-machine, newsletter that went out to about 750 to 1,000 people mostly in the United States and Australia.
In the year 2000 we took a giant leap. My wife Jane, then a chief editor for a firm that produced several psychology magazines, decided we should create Close Quarter Combat Magazine. Hand, stick, knife, gun, military, police, citizens, crime and war news, training. 6 times a year. This was a publication free of checkbook journalism - meaning the content would not be influenced by advertisers. Checkbook journalism is killing the quality of martial magazines on the market today. This also meant advertisers did not "have their way with us" as they do with every other magazine. Good was good and bad was bad. We shot straight. Many times it hurt. It squelched ad revenues, but our business model was based strictly on paid subscribers, not ads.
 At CQC Mags' peak we had over 14,000 paid subscribers in 29 different countries. That is more in some years than Black Belt Magazine, or SWAT, or Soldier of Fortune and quite a number of other magazines on the stands. When 9-11 hit, the major bookstore distributors approached us to be in chain bookstores around the USA. We took the bait. But this shipping and billing cluster-jerk, operation turned our business model upside-down. It became so very bookkeeping and labor intensive it morphed into a complete Frankenstein, grinding us to nearly halt in bean-counting with thousands of distributors, bookstores and supermarkets. Add to that the increasingly fluid access to our clients via the internet, it soon made sense for us to discontinue the paper version and jump on the web in 2005. We have not looked back. And deep down, there is not a magazine staff in the world that doesn't wish they too, could sell off their printing presses, stop buying tons of peper and postage and go completely on the net. There is no doubt.
In modern times, we no longer need to fear people who "buy their ink by the barrel." All we need is broadband connection, huh? But, in so many ways I still miss my first, little, simple "handbill, 12 page newsletter" from the 1990s. Made at a copy machine. As a publisher, editor and writer, a part of me will always miss the process of making, smelling and feeling my own paper magazine in my hands.
Jane and I at a Southwest Writers Conference,
where we were both finalists in both fiction
and non-fiction categories, 2006
In December, 2007, after nearly 3 years out of print, after getting regular calls, letters and emails asking about the old paper, CQC Magazine, like "We loved it." "How can we get a copy?" "Will there be anymore?" Jane decided to give all the old magazines away for free. Yup. Here they are above on PDFs. Tell your friends. Spread the word. Kick back and enjoy.
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