Shinken
Over the years, I've subscribed to or read just about every magazine out there; they're pretty much all the same-basically cut and paste ad copy from every gun and/or gun related manufacturer. The only one I look at now is The American Rifleman because it comes with my NRA membership. Oh, and occasionally I read Small Arms Review at Borders when I get a chance. But all the rest, except for the really nice pix in American Handgunner, are just lacking in substance for me. Way back when, there used to be some really great writers, men who were the real deal, not just some shills for the gun companies. I would subscribe to a magazine so I could read what Elmer Keith, Jeff Cooper, Skeeter Skelton, or Charlie Askins, had to say about some experience in their life having to do with guns; didn't have to be a review about the latest Gun of the Month that was the ultimate firearm ever built (that is, until next month's copy is out). Nowadays you're probably better served buying books, finding older back issues of magazines that were written by writers who interest you, and with looking for info right here on the Internet.