What Firearms Related Magazine Do You Read?

[hksw]

The only one I buy is Shotgun News' Treasury volumes and the occassional regular issue now and then both for the articles and the advertisements I would otherwise not be aware of.

American Rifleman I get for "free" as I'm NRA Life.

 

[Fawkes]

American Rifleman, and frankly the only part in there that I really read is the Armed Citizen. Mostly I thumb through it and then donate it to the magazine table at work... minus the label with my name.

 

[Kalashnikov]

Shotgun News
G&A
Every once in a while I'll get Guns of the old west.

 

[gyp_c2]

uhhhh...

...Power-Mag, Wilson, Metalform, Colt...izat' whatcha' mean...

 

[RNB65]

I don't buy any gun magazines. Most of them are boring and biased. I read American Rifleman since it's included with my NRA membership.

 

[bear71]

I like Combat Handguns and Harris publications magazines, Guns and Weapons for Law Enforcement, etc., some of them are $9.95 a piece though! Too much so I usually look around at gun shows for them and sometimes find them for .25 cents a piece.

 

[stevelyn]

Must reads:

RIFLE
HANDLOADER
GUNS
AMERICAN HANDGUNNER

SHOTGUN NEWS when I need to get stuff.

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE more for unbiased news and investigative reporting than guns.

On rare occasions I'll pick up the other odd publication if there is an article or subject that interests me.

 

[mgh]

Gun Tests, and occasionally Shotgun News

 

[michiganfan]

American Handgunner, NRA mag and Gun Tests.

 

[Freightman]

American Rifleman, SGN,

 

[tomhorn]

shooting Times
guns and ammo
rifle shooter
handloader The best
petersons hunting
I travel for the us Goverment I live in motel rooms so i need something to keep me sane ..

 

[Kankujoe]

I get Field & Stream and Outside (good but not directly gun related) for my waiting room. I don't subscribe to any others but I thumb through several occasionally at Wally World or at book stores. Most are over priced and not all that interesting or informative. Occasionally I'll read a good article but that is unfortunately rare.

 

[BobMcG]

Current firearms subs:
American Rifleman
Guns & Ammo
Shooting Times

Although often also have subs to:
American Handgunner
Guns

Used to have subs to:
Gun Tests (A friend has so I read his on occasion.)
Shotgun News (Dropped when I dropped my FFL.)
Gun World (Remember that one?)

On occasion will purchase:
Handloader
Rifle Shooter
Combat Handguns
Special Weapons for Military & Police
Guns & Weapons for Law Enforcement

 

[Pumpkinheaver]

The only gun rag I pay for is Handloader
I read G&A and shooting times but they come free.

 

[tomhorn]

I buy my mags on ebay super cheap never been burned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[twenty711]

This is going to sound weird, but:
American Rifleman

 

[Dennito]

Looking for 9/06 copy of G&A

I read Handguns and American Handgunner. But I'm looking for a copy of the G&A for 9/06. I would like to get the article about the the Colt Trooper from it. If anyone could help in that regard I would be very grateful.

 

[GroovedG19]

Combat Handguns
Guns and Weapons for Law Enforcement
Guns
American Handgunner

 

[loud-mouth shnook]

Being an NRA member...

...American Rifleman, of course.

I'll tell ya though, another mag that nobody's mentioned is the one that's my very favorite.
It has its own type of gun articles and also articles about a lot of other things that interest me greatly.

It's called, "Backwoodsman." If you find one, check it out.
Not fit for "dazzling urbanites", though.

 

[GeorgiaGlocker]

American Handgunner
Handguns (by guns and ammo)
Guns and Ammo

 

[Rumble]

Femme Fatale...

Okay, just kidding. I read American Handgunner online (my library subscribes to it). I am unswayed by glossy advertisements, because they're not included in my library's database.

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

I usually just pick up ones that have an article or two that interests me. I'd like to subscribe to a couple but I get bored seeing a new pair of $1300 1911's on the cover each month.
Does anyone notice it seems all the major magazines review the same weapons each issue? Do they all go to lunch together?
The ones I'm most likely to pick up are:
Combat Handguns
Guns and Weapons for Law Enforcement
Special Weapons for Military and Police

Most of them are advertisements. "The Ultra-Lightfighter Combat Custom .45 threw a very respectable 4" group at 5 yards, only had a handful of failures in the 2 boxes of ammo I shot...probably magazine related, and costs a very reasonable $2500"

 

[Tequila jake]

Too many really, but that's about to end. I've begun to find more and more statements in them that contradict what I know to be true based on my own experience and information I've received from people I trust.

I think that when the gun and ammo companies furnish the gun writers stuff to be tested they make sure that it's absolutely first rate. However, we poor suckers who have to buy the stuff often get second class items.

An example of statements I know not to be true was one by a writer describing the direct-gas impingement system of auto operation as being "...the most reliable..." one in use. The AR-15/M-16 uses the direct-gas impingement system and I don't think anyone would claim that it's more reliable than the gas-piston system used in AKs.

Tequila Jake

 

[thales]

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In approximate ascending order of quality;

American Handgunner
American Rifleman
Rifle
Handloader
Varmint Hunter
Precision Shooting


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[AndyC]

I bought some a few months back thanks to a B&N gift-card, but I was highly disappointed. Perhaps I'm just jaded now, but I won't be buying any more.