Favorite Gun Magazine (or Podcast/Blogs)

[MrTrolleyguy]

Magazine are changing yet still mostly a lot of the same ole fluff pieces. They have competition now, Cable TV, podcast and blogs.

NB: We do not want to hear about other forums!



What are your favorites? What has grabbed you interest?


Hey, I almost forgot our own offering, Is it the Ampersand {?weekly newsletter?} and our FaceBook Page. Sorry.


Seems like the semi-automatics dominate the hand gun rags. The pistol lover has a number of publications. They are well covered. I am I right? You have so many after market vendor selling their wares for pistols and that generates magazines. eh!


Fewer vendors for the revolver fan means less coverage. So, who does the best overall job covering all categories related to revolvers. Is there such a magazine?

Has anyone switched from magazines to podcast or blogs to get their fill of current handgun information? If so which ones?

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[LTC]

I tended towards "American Handgunner". I had a discounted subscription to it for a year or two a couple years back.

LTC

 

[Bkreutz]

The only magazines I get/read are American Rifleman(NRA), Tactical Journal(IDPA) and Front Sight(USPSA). They come with my membership. The only online thing I look at is a locally produced thing called the "Powerfactor Show". I won't put a link but it can be found through a search.

 

[perrazi]

handloader and American handgunner

 

[hanken]

Shooting Times has been my favorite for years. I sure miss Skeeter Skelton still.

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[Stephanie B]

For blogs, "View From the Porch" by Tamara Keel.

 

[Doug M.]

American Handgunner for the best pics and some interesting columns. SWAT for the reality checks and real SMEs about social use of firearms.

 

[Gunhacker]

Over the decades, I've subscribed to Shooting Times, G&A, American Handgunner, Gun Games, Handloader, and Guns.

I dropped ST about year after Skeeter passed away as it morphed into just another gun rag indistinguishable from the rest. But... for Skeeter Skelton fans, if you want a treat, get some of the early Shooting Times issues on eBay and see how Skeeter started out with the July 1966 issue.

The Magazines I've settled down with are Handloader and Guns magazine.

I recently discovered the pod cast for Tom Gresham's "Gun Talk" radio and have been enjoying listening to them.

 

[49willys]

Handloader,american rifleman.thinking about getting one of the concealed carry mags.

 

[mg357]

Guns magazine Americanhangunner magazine and Guns & Ammo magazine.

 

[Jessie]

I used to have a hard time waiting on my Guns&Ammo mag but not so much any more. It's ok but that's all.
American Rifleman is good now and then but non are as good as they used to be.

 

[amazingflapjack]

*****GUNS*****

 

[shouldazagged]

These days none, but if I were to subscribe it would be to Gun Tests.

The main rags are nothing but advertising circulars, with the exception of Ayoob's case histories.

 

[Kanewpadle]

Gun Tests is a waste of time buddy. When they tried to recommend self defense ammo based on their test methods, I and many other people called BS. I emailed them and never heard back. I cancelled my subscription.
Gun Tests Magazine Unqualified to Evaluate Personal Defense Ammunition

Back on topic. I stopped paying magazine subscriptions years ago. Too much free information out there for free including Digital Editions.
FMG Digital Editions

 

[pownal55]

Rifle magazine is good since it gets into the more technical aspects on the subject but still get Shooting Times for the handgun and shotgun info. You all know where I go for S&W information.

 

[Jessie]

Gun Tests is a waste of time buddy. When they tried to recommend self defense ammo based on their test methods, I and many other people called BS. I emailed them and never heard back. I cancelled my subscription.
Gun Tests Magazine Unqualified to Evaluate Personal Defense Ammunition

Back on topic. I stopped paying magazine subscriptions years ago. Too much free information out there for free including Digital Editions.
FMG Digital Editions

That link may all be true, but using a finger poked into a package of hamburger is not scientific proof of it. There is an energy dynamics at play that your poking finger does not possess. To use that does not bolster their argument in my opinion. I understand what they're trying to say, but they're using the same type of false science that they're trying to refute.

 

[shouldazagged]

Gun Tests is a waste of time buddy. When they tried to recommend self defense ammo based on their test methods, I and many other people called BS. I emailed them and never heard back. I cancelled my subscription.

Apparently it's been too many years since I read it--probably at least ten. I liked it because they bought guns off the shelf, anonymously, at the going price, for testing.

I guess that means all the magazines have gone to hell.

I still read Ayoob's columns, but not much else. And I do that rarely.

 

[alwslate]

Handloader, Rifle, American Rifleman, in that order. I used to get
several others but let them all go. I plan to keep these three.

 

[RobertJ.]

Thirty years ago or so I subscribed to Guns and Ammo, and couldn't wait for the next issue. Then I started noticing the re-hashing of articles, and certain writers contradicting themselves from article to article. By the time I stopped subscribing, or buying it at all, I was only getting it for "Cooper's Corner", who I was a big fan of at the time. While I still recognize Col. Cooper's contributions to shooting, with all his pontificating I realize he really was a legend in his own mind. Guns and Ammo nowadays I consider to be the National Enquirer of the gun world.

I haven't bought a gun magazine for a long time, but if I did now it would be American Handgunner. I was reading that one way back when they interviewed Ted Nugent, and guys wrote in lambasting them for it. They (the editors) put these guys in their place, pointing out that Ted was not your typical rock star.

Now, I just get all my intelligent gun info right here. I see photos as good (or better!) than the ones in the mags, and I get to read stuff written by guys who actually do the things they're writing about.

 

[Salty RI]

Years ago I liked guns & ammo, I used to go right to the last page to read Parting Shot by Gene Hill.