American Rifleman is a good one to get (or any of the NRA Mags) Even if you just flip through them, you are still supporting the "culture" by being a member.
The purposes gun magazines no longer serve are Legislative News, and new gun introductions.
With gun magazines, you can never take the material at face value. The best bet is to read something that sparks your interest and then check it out yourself. There is a fair amount of drivel hitting print simply because a writer has a certain number of column inches he has to produce for each issue.
None of the subscription mags (except for GunTests ) really have a Consumer Reports orientation. If they are dependent on advertising, they are unlikely to notice problems with their test samples. Gun Tests, Engledrum's old Gun Tests Magazines and the current and very good www.gunblast.com are a direct response to that long standing situation.
One long -standing writer once said in print that he though Glocks werent' very pretty. He later became very popular with Kimber and people were wondering why they were having problems with their new Kimbers when he had been promoting them so aggressively. One time he praised a set of grips he got from one of the manufacturers and used one of the the promo pictures as an illustration. I bet a lot of readers were pretty upset when they found out their grips had wide open grain and no finish.
Ayoob can be very interesting sometimes. You never know when it will happen but occasionally, he becomes very informative. When the Smith Titanium Snubs Came out, he did a thorough evaluation. Mentioned that they were pretty painful to shoot and then reported that his went out of time after about 600 rounds. More recently there has been some internet chatter about something he wrote about the new Smith and Wesson key safeties engaging themselves under heavy recoil.
The purposes gun magazines no longer serve are Legislative News, and new gun introductions.
With gun magazines, you can never take the material at face value. The best bet is to read something that sparks your interest and then check it out yourself. There is a fair amount of drivel hitting print simply because a writer has a certain number of column inches he has to produce for each issue.
None of the subscription mags (except for GunTests ) really have a Consumer Reports orientation. If they are dependent on advertising, they are unlikely to notice problems with their test samples. Gun Tests, Engledrum's old Gun Tests Magazines and the current and very good www.gunblast.com are a direct response to that long standing situation.
One long -standing writer once said in print that he though Glocks werent' very pretty. He later became very popular with Kimber and people were wondering why they were having problems with their new Kimbers when he had been promoting them so aggressively. One time he praised a set of grips he got from one of the manufacturers and used one of the the promo pictures as an illustration. I bet a lot of readers were pretty upset when they found out their grips had wide open grain and no finish.
Ayoob can be very interesting sometimes. You never know when it will happen but occasionally, he becomes very informative. When the Smith Titanium Snubs Came out, he did a thorough evaluation. Mentioned that they were pretty painful to shoot and then reported that his went out of time after about 600 rounds. More recently there has been some internet chatter about something he wrote about the new Smith and Wesson key safeties engaging themselves under heavy recoil.
