I stopped reading most of the gun mags because a lot of the newer gun writers were (are) either repeating old myths that were untrue, or they don't know much about the subject, but they know how to write a good article. Case in point:
" 7.62X25 Tok ammo is loaded much hotter than 7.63 Mauser ammo and should never be used in the latter gun." The truth? It IS loaded slight hotter (35K psi vs 33K psi) however, the C-96 was chambered in 9X19 which is also loaded to 35K. Remember the 9X25 Export Mauser? Of course you don't, it never caught on. 128 gr. @ 1360 FPS. It was loaded to 37.5 K PSI. It's parent case was the 7.63 Mauser, blown out straight. A C-96 in good shape should have no trouble with Tokarev ammo.
Another myth, not repeated as often these days: The Astra 400 was designed and will shoot the 9mm Largo, 9mm Steyr and the 9X19. It will shoot the Steyr round because it is slightly tapered and the same length. A Largo round usually will not chamber in the Steyr because it has no taper. A 9mm, being shorter, can enter the chamber and rest IN FRONT of the extractor. The firing pin on the 400 is two piece and the front portion is free floating. It usually just pushes the 9mm round a bit further into the chamber, but it can set it off. Guess what happens then...
"The ping of an M-1 clip can tip off the enemy that you're out of ammo." Well, the guys next to you aren't... The enemy soldier probably wont hear it anyway. Battlefields are kinda noisy places. Still see that one occasionally.
Read an article about subguns a couple years back. The writer described the guns ammo capacity as ( whatever the mag held ) +1. He was talking about sub machine guns! Not semi-auto civilian models! They all fire from an open bolt, only a few (MP5 and variants) don't. So how does that "plus one" thing work?
Somebody please tell a few ignorant writers out there that JMB did not invent the High Power. His name is attached to the gun because his name was pure gold. Put his name on a gun and it sold! He died many years before the first one was made. One writer described it as "John Browning's masterpiece." Dieudonne Saive's masterpiece is a better description.
I think the writers in the Handgunner are very very good They write out of knowledge and experience.
No, I am not currently, nor have ever been, an employee of theirs...