What are the best gun magazines?

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I recently subscribed to "American Handgunner." What other periodicals do you guys recommend for handgun enthusiasts?
 
None of 'em. Read any of 'em long enough and you'll see the same subjects repeated over and over. Plus you'll rarely see any new firearm panned by any writer. Everthing is the best thing since sliced bread. They can't annoy their advertisers.
I've seen it done once in 30 plus years. The HK VP-70, as I recall, was christened a 'jam-o-matic'.
Mind you, up here, shooting magazines cost about $10 with taxes.
 
$10 an issue!:what: Heck I just renewed Guns & Ammo for two years for $9.95! Not particulary a very worthy magazine but I figured for less than $.50 cents an issue it would be worth the purty pictures.:D
 
None of 'em. Read any of 'em long enough and you'll see the same subjects repeated over and over. Plus you'll rarely see any new firearm panned by any writer. Everthing is the best thing since sliced bread. They can't annoy their advertisers.
I've seen it done once in 30 plus years. The HK VP-70, as I recall, was christened a 'jam-o-matic'.
Mind you, up here, shooting magazines cost about $10 with taxes
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for sure you are correct. i remember as a kid i used to buy guns and ammo magazines. used to read them from front to back. after a few years you stop looking at them. because you realize its all the same. heck you learn more and have better interaction being on forums like this than reading a magazine.
 
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Especially if they're FML and drop-free. Seriously, though, I think that to a large degree, the internet has eclipsed the print magazine, and not just in the firearms enthusiast community. Although I haven't really been looking, I have yet to find one that I really actively like. Having said that, I have a free subscription to Guns & Ammo from the nice folks at www.natchezss.com, and it's not bad for whiling away some time. It has lots of pictures of...guns. :D
 
I always liked Guns & Ammo but now the Col. Cooper is deceased (RIP) I find that I enjoy it less
The 1st thing I always read when G&A arrived was Cooper's Corner

Nowadays, I suggest you join the NRA and get American Rifleman and/or America's 1st Freedom both are worthy and you get 1 subscription free when you join the NRA which all sensible gun owners should do anyway.
 
When I saw the subject, I thought you were going to ask about, you know, magazines that have bullets in 'em. Oh well, good to see that gun mags are just like car mags and bike mags - slave to the advertisers.
 
I tend to stick with most OEM magazines, or Mec-Gar.

I also like most Colt magazines for carbines and 1911s, and Yugo magazines for the AKs.
 
Well, ahem....

I like to think that the *best* are GUN WEEK, GUN WORLD and GUN DIGEST if only because my byline appears in their pages :D :D

I also read American Handgunner, American Rifleman, American Hunter, Combat Handguns and Guns & Ammo.
 
AMERICAN HANDGUNNER and GUNS

Massad Ayoob, John Taffin, Mike Venturino, Charles E Petty....the last of the good gun writers.

Guns & Ammo and Handguns are giant advertisements, since Jan Libourel left those mags are birdcage lining.
 
Massad Ayoob, John Taffin, Mike Venturino, Charles E Petty....the last of the good gun writers.
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I totally agree!

American Handgunner is worth it for the articles, but you have to wade through some BS in the equipment reviews.
 
Thanks for the input. You are all correct. I have never seen a gun called a POS in a magazine! Maybe someday Consumer Reports will do some ratings. Now that would be a hoot. :neener:
 
i subscrib to shooting times, though i like it it isn't the best out there, but everytime the subscrition is about up i re-subscribe anyway.
right before a deployment i always subscribe to a bunch of different ones so i will have plenty of reading material in my down time. and it normally works out pretty good i might go a week without a new magazine to read. and it is really great if i am somewhere where there aren't computers to keep up with the forum which is quite possibly what might happen this tim around.:banghead:

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I don't subscribe to any magazines for the following reasons.

#1. When you accept advertising dollars, you can't review products with an unbiased opinion.
#2. Articles are recycled boring tibits of useless information for the most part.
#3. Writers with tenure have a tendancy to talk down to the average reader.

And #4 which applies to gun mags and NRA material only.
It alerts people to the possibility of what you have in your home.
 
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