I join you in mourning the loss of real gun experts writing in real gun magazines. I’ve completely discontinued my market targeted gun magazines and only get AR (because I’m a life member) and journals from the various specialty groups to which I belong. It’s gotten so bad that even a couple of these journals call on me for the occasional article. Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel!
My current research method is to first scan the InterWeb and ask questions on specialty sites, then go through my library of
old AR and other magazines, then look through the few old books I own for other info. Current mass market magazine? Not so much.
Froggie