Best Firearms Magazine?

[Armyphotog]

None of them in my estimation. I like old guns, apparently new editors do not, and are only interested in pushing their advertiser's
products. It's their dime, but they are not using my nickel.

 

[rockquarry]

gun magazines

Most of the magazines have suffered significant deterioration in the last ten - fiteen years. HANDLOADER and RIFLE are probably the best and they haven't succumbed to the "tactical" and "extreme" fads. AMERICAN RIFLEMAN was an excellent magazine when Ken Warner and Ron Keysor were editors, but that's been a good while ago. Far too much advertising now and too few interesting articles. The magazine seems to be a very secondary effort of the NRA.

 

[Thuer]

Oldman. I do write for some Dutch gunmagazine's.
At one day I found a free Lee Turret Press on my doorstep with the request to write an artickle about it. I did. But. I am honest to my readers and told them that the autoindex (the part what turns the diedisk with every move of the handle) landed in a box of spare parts and that I don't liked it. That was the end of my relation with Lee.
Aldo, I realy love Lee reloading stuff. But this wasn't working the way I like to reload.

When I test a gun (mostly a revolver) I am honest to my readers.
If it dousn't work, it dousn't work.

But this is Holland. The sales of gunmagazines is almost not existing.

 

[Joe in SC]

I think Rifle and Handloader are my favorites but I read several more that are good too. Guns and American Handgunner are very high on my list as well as Gun World. Believe it or not I still read Shooting Times and Guns and Ammo, too.

My favorite writers are Brian Pierce and John Barsness. Taffin is OK and one of my old favorites, Layne Simpson, still does some good stuff, Just not as prolific as he once was.

I've got several hundred copies of Guns and Ammo from the glory days of Elmer and Shooting Times from the days of Skeeter. I enjoy re-reading them as much as I do the new stuff. Reading is a big part of my life and I enjoy it immensely.

 

[pilgrim6a]

I seem to be missing something. I just read a write up on the 'New .44 mag. Desert Eagle' in a gun mag. According to the reviewer it is a fine weapon. It weights as much as a light carbine. The trigger has a long take up, followed by a spongy and gritty pull of 8#, that's single action. The safety requires both hands to operate, best time to disengage the safety averages 5 seconds. The grip is quite comfortable if you are a Large Yeti.
But it is a fine value at $1540, and he recommends it highly.
$ounds like an unbia$ed review to me.

 

[4506517]

You mean to tell me no one mentioned the advertising-free, discriminating, packed full of expertise and knowledge, GUN TESTS magazine? Now here i thought it was held in the highest esteem due to its scientific testing protocols.

I am kidding.....quite possibly the worst one ever.

Personally I love SAR because it deals with stuff you dont see everyday.

 

[sipowicz]

Hi-point monthly.

 

[ralph7]

Hi-point monthly.

i like their rg giveaway contests.

 

[Hofstet]

I like Gun Dog

 

[chief38]

I've been into guns for a long time now (40 years), and I used to get Shooting Times, Guns & Ammo, The American Handgunner, etc. After about 5 years they just re-hash the same stuff over & over. Once in a blue moon they will have a new subject to talk about, but it's mostly eating the same donuts every day, so now the ONLY one I still receive is the American Rifleman which comes every month with mt Lifetime NRA membership.

Occasionally, someone will give me a stack of gun magazines and I thumb through them while on the thrown, but I have no desire to get them anymore. Seems the writers are either grasping for straws for something to write about, or writing about subject that are of no interest to me. These days the "Black Rifles" and Plastic Pistols are all the rage, and I am into Walnut & Blue Steel.

Chief38

 

[badam0112]

American Handgunner is the only subscription I receive.

 

[Cyrano]

If you'e interested in older weapons, Man at Arms is probably the best bet. Excellent, authoratative articles. If you like auto pistols; Auto Mag, the journal of the National Automatic Pistol Collectors' Association is the best thing going. They have some really in-depth research.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

"The writer is like attorneys, they no longer care about truth or factual information but the money to be made by their sponsor."

Respectfully, unlike writers, the picosecond that you fail to use all your skills to serve your client notwithstanding "truth or factual information", you have malpracticed. The attorney tries to get his client a fair trial or prosecute on behalf of of the state not determine a verdict or determine the veracity of the facts. Sometimes , in Texas, you do not pick your clients. Yeah, it is the attornies' fault that lawmakers, juries and judges are not perfect, and they are all just out for a buck.

Back to the main topic, no use for a gun rag. Just take your freebie with your NRA dues and every great now and then buy one off the rack when you see one that really interests you. Most of the articles are effectively advertisements. If you want reviews, search the gun here. My two cenrs.