Favorite Gun Magazine?

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Just wondering what your favorite gun magazine is? My personal favorites are Gun Test's and Shooting Times.:D How about you all?
 
Shooting Times...It was a lot better when Skeeter had his stories but it's still better than the rest of the Gun mags...IMHO..:)
 
I can't say I like one magazine better than another, but I like to read Sheriff Jim Wilson, Bart Skelton, Mike Venturino, Massad Ayoob, Layne Simpson, and Jim Carmichael, Jim Zumbo, and Pat McManus. All for different reasons. Take that into consideration and you see which magazines I read from.
 
Haven't read one in years. Closest I've gotten was a free subscription to Outdoor Life and Field-n-Stream last year that I just let lapse....
 
I like American Handgunner because my primary interest is handguns. They do a good job of covering the new and the old (though there's some bias towards 1911's(not that that's a bad thing)) and the spectrum from hunting to competitive shooting to SD to plinking.

Since moving west, I do want to get into some riflery, but I'll have to figure out where to shoot (plenty of BLM land in NM:D ).

All in all, I agree with Preacherman's opinion, lotsa good ino here and TFL, etc., except that I don't take my PC into the can (aka 'the reading room') or in the waiting room at the where ever :neener:
 
Oh, that kind of mags... in that case, I bought a 10pk of gov't contract 7rd stamped HiStandard. They've thus far worked flawlessly in my 1911A1's.
 
I like Combat Handguns. It brings together several elements of handguns for defense as well as covering knives, lights, tactics and legal considerations.

I like Guns and American Handgunner more for their photo layouts. Time was I would look upon centerfolds of a softer nature, but now I enjoy the ones in these two magazines.

And I enjoy Guns & Ammo for its wider view on firearms, including the historic.

Gun Tests is very valuable to me for the in-depth non-b.s. reviews.

My most favorite, though, is First Freedom.

No matter what you shoot there will be no shooting if we do not stop the gun-banners. First Freedom is dedicated to the political aspect of being a responsible armed citizen.
 
The DSA or Rock River Arms product catalog.:neener:





I never really got into reading gun rags. I get American Rifleman which has some good reads, but I take it for what it is: a firearms oriented publication of a politiacal advocacy group, not the journal of record for the firearms community.
 
Gun Tests, Handloader and Rifle (though their quality has fallen off) and American Handgunner.
 
I have yet to find decent firearms magazine. The only one I currently get is "America's First Freedom" from my NRA membership. I wouldn't pay money for it separately, that's for sure, though.

I usually peruse forums such as this one, as well as a serious firearms subforum on a very popular for-pay forum.
 
Backwoods Home is actually pretty good. Mas Ayoob has a regular column and the editors frequently explore 2A issues. Plus lots of other interesting stuff.
 
American Handgunner

Why? Pretty pictures... OOOOOH... pretty
Although this month they ticked me off. Cover said 9mm FN HiPower. Inside the story was for a 40 S&W FN HiPower.
 
another vote for Gun Tests. the only mag I subscribe to. Rest are too "lovey dovey" with every gun they test.

I sometimes buy Shooting Times off the newstands. That mag has the midway ads in it with the "special offer" codes for freebies.
 
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