Favorite gun magazine - The Firearms Forum

Appliancedude · 10-01-2012, 01:51 AM

Just curious what your favorite gun mag is. I normally grab a couple copys of something off the newstand and flip through them. If something catches my attention I buy the mag and read it. Shooting times and handloader are probably the two I buy the most. While grocery shopping today with the better half, I came across a mag I hadn't seen before. Western Shooting Journal. Ok mag, some good articles, but seems to be geared more for women. Or at least this particular issue was anyways. Most of the articles were written by women and it has woman editor. I'll flip through the next issue better. If its the same as this one, geared more towards women, I probably wont buy it again. As I am not a woman, no matter what toe nail polish my daughter paints on me, it really just wasn't for me.

So what do you guys read?

wv hillbilly · 10-01-2012, 04:12 AM

gun tests and gun digest

V509 · 10-01-2012, 05:22 AM

Gun test is the only subscription I have ever cancelled!
I like RIFLE magazine
HANDLOADER is also excellent
SPORTING CLASSICS is very nice, well written ans has great photographs

gvw3 · 10-01-2012, 06:01 AM

Guns and ammo.

Awtoman · 10-01-2012, 06:29 AM

A loaded one.

Tom

ozo · 10-01-2012, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Awtoman

A loaded one.

Tom

yes....!!

CampingJosh · 10-01-2012, 09:54 AM

I don't typically buy the gun rags. Or any magazines, for that matter. Maybe pick up two of all kinds each year.

But standing in the store waiting for my wife, Guns and Ammo is the one I'm holding most often.

Dennis C · 10-01-2012, 10:14 AM

I get American Rifleman and Guns & Ammo in the mail. That enough for me.

Zhurh · 10-01-2012, 11:23 AM

There's this AR buyers guide type mag that comes out every spring & fall I believe; by Harris Publishing; I have several copies from last couple years. Worth every penny.

gun runner · 10-01-2012, 11:28 AM

I never really found anything interesting in gun magazines but just the deal of getting an idea to buy another weapon which I cant afford during the time and thats stressful.

firefighter1635 · 10-01-2012, 04:46 PM

American Handgunner.

Prizefighter · 10-01-2012, 06:52 PM

American Rifleman and Guns & Ammo for me, too.

Silencer · 10-01-2012, 08:24 PM

Shooting Times, from the early to late 80's. Then, sometime in the early-mid 90's it turned to crap.

Right now, I don't subscribe to any magazine whatsoever. LIE! Shooting Sports Retailer. Forgot that one.

Bindernut · 10-01-2012, 08:38 PM

I haven't subscribed to any gun rags since I got online over a decade ago.
I will occasionally buy a copy of Handloader or Rifle off of the newstand if I find an article that I like.
Used to be a die-hard American Rifleman and G&A reader all through grade and high school. Once my old favorite authors retired or passed away neither mag was quite the same anymore.

Places like TFF have much better info than any magazine printed these days...and the company is better too!

Big Chevy · 10-01-2012, 09:14 PM

American Rifleman for me.

okiefired · 10-01-2012, 09:17 PM

"Precision Shooting"....I read it cover to cover every month and have for years.

okie

stumpjumper · 10-01-2012, 09:23 PM

online editions for me. mostly blogs and info sites. hell, i can find almost anything i want to read about here

76Highboy · 10-01-2012, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by firefighter1635

American Handgunner.

I like American Handgunner too. Good info, lots of info also. I tend to like the mags that focus on everyday affordable guns. Guns and Ammo is a great one too. I will be getting my subscription to American Handgunner.

Archie · 10-02-2012, 12:07 AM

Handloader, Rifle and Gun Digest Magazine are about the only ones I buy anymore.

sub-moa · 10-02-2012, 12:25 AM

American Rifleman and Tactical Weapons

DixieLandMan · 10-02-2012, 10:54 AM

American Rifleman and Guns and Ammo.

time2shoot · 10-02-2012, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Zhurh

There's this AR buyers guide type mag that comes out every spring & fall I believe; by Harris Publishing; I have several copies from last couple years. Worth every penny.

going to have to look into that one.

aa1911 · 10-02-2012, 12:07 PM

American Rifleman obviously with my life membership but also, Shooting times and Guns & Ammo (they're like 60 cents/issue, can't turn that down!) and I do like the handgunner magazine quite a bit, I will pick it up if I see something good in there that issue.

Handloader is probably one of my favorites though, I still don't have a subscription for some reason, I buy it off the shelf about every other issue or so. good reminder to get signed up for that.

Also signed up for shotgun news again last week, it's pretty cheap.

mainly I get them to keep up on the new stuff coming out and to drool over things I can't afford...

how bout MidwayUSA flyers, they come about every other day it seems! and their catalog every year along with Brownells annually.

Every time I go shoot, I round up a bunch of old ones (I save the riflemans) to test out rounds for penetration. Set them inside a box and fire away at it. so they have dual purposes!

or you could use them to line your walls with inside, they make good cover.......

and they're fun to leave in the crappers or coffee tables of places you know don't appreciate guns, hahaa! done that on occasion... rip your address off and leave 'em in a waiting room, barber shop or whatever.

polishshooter · 10-02-2012, 08:58 PM

American Rifleman and Muzzle Blasts from the NRA and NMLRA I get every month...

I keep saying I need to subscribe to G&A and Backwoodsman (I know, not REALLY a gun mag but good stuff with gun stuff in every issue) I have been saying for the last two years I need to subscribe to...

Shotgun News I used to get, but let it slide....the once a month issues with the good articles were good, but the other two every month were about the same...

Rifle Shooter and Handloader I buy occasionally when I am on the road and need something to read at dinner when I forget a book...

But when I DO forget a book, I end up almost starving at the mag rack at Borders or Barnes and Nobles deciding WHICH mag to buy...every ONE seems to have at least one article I WANT to read....and $5 a pop minimum is a lot to spend for ONE article....

CampingJosh · 10-02-2012, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by polishshooter

I keep saying I need to subscribe to G&A and Backwoodsman (I know, not REALLY a gun mag but good stuff with gun stuff in every issue) I have been saying for the last two years I need to subscribe to...

Every time I think about subscribing to the Backwoodsman, I remember that they don't have a copy editor. In almost every issue, there is at least one article with a part that is so screwy that you don't even know what the author is trying to say in that paragraph. I don't know if its the writers submitting stuff like that or errors in transfer, but it drives me nuts.

If you want my money, you have to put out a professional product. And that's not what the Backwoodsman is. Everyone gets their own opinion, but only my opinion counts for my dollars.

10-01-2012, 01:51 AM	#1
Appliancedude Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: The true northern Cal Posts: 1,610	Favorite gun magazine Just curious what your favorite gun mag is. I normally grab a couple copys of something off the newstand and flip through them. If something catches my attention I buy the mag and read it. Shooting times and handloader are probably the two I buy the most. While grocery shopping today with the better half, I came across a mag I hadn't seen before. Western Shooting Journal. Ok mag, some good articles, but seems to be geared more for women. Or at least this particular issue was anyways. Most of the articles were written by women and it has woman editor. I'll flip through the next issue better. If its the same as this one, geared more towards women, I probably wont buy it again. As I am not a woman, no matter what toe nail polish my daughter paints on me, it really just wasn't for me. So what do you guys read? __________________ It ain't broke it just lacks duct tape. The nice thing about opinions is everybody has one. -->

10-01-2012, 04:12 AM	#2
wv hillbilly Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: mountains of wv. Posts: 2,025	Re: Favorite gun magazine gun tests and gun digest

10-01-2012, 05:22 AM	#3
V509 V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Buckeye State Posts: 192	Re: Favorite gun magazine Gun test is the only subscription I have ever cancelled! I like RIFLE magazine HANDLOADER is also excellent SPORTING CLASSICS is very nice, well written ans has great photographs

10-01-2012, 06:01 AM	#4
gvw3 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Chicago IL Area Contributor Posts: 3,459	Re: Favorite gun magazine Guns and ammo. __________________ Criminals advocate stronger gun laws to foster a safer work environment. This limits their exposure to risk.

10-01-2012, 06:29 AM	#5
Awtoman V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Middle Tennessee Posts: 367	Re: Favorite gun magazine A loaded one. Tom __________________ Tom's Garage

10-01-2012, 09:54 AM	#7
CampingJosh TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Indiana Contributor Posts: 4,798	Re: Favorite gun magazine I don't typically buy the gun rags. Or any magazines, for that matter. Maybe pick up two of all kinds each year. But standing in the store waiting for my wife, Guns and Ammo is the one I'm holding most often. __________________ Nothing posted on TheFirearmsForum.com constitutes legal, accounting, gunsmithing, or other professional advice. Readers are encouraged to consult with qualified professionals for real advice. Your life is lived at your own risk. Don't blame me for the dumb things you do.

10-01-2012, 10:14 AM	#8
Dennis C Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: South Dakota Posts: 789	Re: Favorite gun magazine I get American Rifleman and Guns & Ammo in the mail. That enough for me. __________________ "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." - Thomas Jefferson

10-01-2012, 11:23 AM	#9
Zhurh Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Upper Yukon, Alaska Posts: 1,834	Re: Favorite gun magazine There's this AR buyers guide type mag that comes out every spring & fall I believe; by Harris Publishing; I have several copies from last couple years. Worth every penny.

10-01-2012, 11:28 AM	#10
gun runner Former Guest Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: South Texas Contributor Posts: 1,871	Re: Favorite gun magazine I never really found anything interesting in gun magazines but just the deal of getting an idea to buy another weapon which I cant afford during the time and thats stressful. Last edited by gun runner; 10-01-2012 at 11:29 AM..

10-01-2012, 04:46 PM	#11
firefighter1635 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: US of A Contributor Posts: 1,838	Re: Favorite gun magazine American Handgunner.

10-01-2012, 06:52 PM	#12
Prizefighter V.I.P. Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: North Carolina Contributor Posts: 412	Re: Favorite gun magazine American Rifleman and Guns & Ammo for me, too.

10-01-2012, 08:24 PM	#13
Silencer Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Southern California: Inland Empire Posts: 1,329	Re: Favorite gun magazine Shooting Times, from the early to late 80's. Then, sometime in the early-mid 90's it turned to crap. Right now, I don't subscribe to any magazine whatsoever. LIE! Shooting Sports Retailer. Forgot that one. __________________ War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. Skeet Shooting Game! Don't Shoot Your Eye Out! Last edited by Silencer; 10-01-2012 at 08:25 PM..

10-01-2012, 08:38 PM	#14
Bindernut Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: ND, USA Posts: 2,489	Re: Favorite gun magazine I haven't subscribed to any gun rags since I got online over a decade ago. I will occasionally buy a copy of Handloader or Rifle off of the newstand if I find an article that I like. Used to be a die-hard American Rifleman and G&A reader all through grade and high school. Once my old favorite authors retired or passed away neither mag was quite the same anymore. Places like TFF have much better info than any magazine printed these days...and the company is better too!

10-01-2012, 09:14 PM	#15
Big Chevy V.I.P. Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: S.W. Florida Posts: 347	Re: Favorite gun magazine American Rifleman for me.

10-01-2012, 09:17 PM	#16
okiefired V.I.P. Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: OK. Posts: 186	Re: Favorite gun magazine "Precision Shooting"....I read it cover to cover every month and have for years. okie __________________ "If I ever meet a Texacan that hasn't drunk muddy water from a hoof print, I'll shake his hand and buy him a Daniel Webster ceeegar" Rooster Cogburn

10-01-2012, 09:23 PM	#17
stumpjumper Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: swflorida Contributor Posts: 660	Re: Favorite gun magazine online editions for me. mostly blogs and info sites. hell, i can find almost anything i want to read about here __________________ after three rounds you're just making noise Guns have only two enemies rust and politicians

10-02-2012, 12:07 AM	#19
Archie V.I.P. Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hastings, Nebraska; the Heartland! Posts: 295	Re: Favorite gun magazine Handloader, Rifle and Gun Digest Magazine are about the only ones I buy anymore. __________________ Be at Peace; go forth, spread enlightenment and joy to all. Wear clean underwear and take a gun. http://oldmanmontgomery.wordpress.com/ for my thoughts...

10-02-2012, 12:25 AM	#20
sub-moa V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Kentucky Posts: 407	Re: Favorite gun magazine American Rifleman and Tactical Weapons __________________ "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln

10-02-2012, 10:54 AM	#21
DixieLandMan Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Alabama Posts: 618	Re: Favorite gun magazine American Rifleman and Guns and Ammo.

10-02-2012, 12:07 PM	#23
aa1911 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Pacific Northwest Posts: 3,120	Re: Favorite gun magazine American Rifleman obviously with my life membership but also, Shooting times and Guns & Ammo (they're like 60 cents/issue, can't turn that down!) and I do like the handgunner magazine quite a bit, I will pick it up if I see something good in there that issue. Handloader is probably one of my favorites though, I still don't have a subscription for some reason, I buy it off the shelf about every other issue or so. good reminder to get signed up for that. Also signed up for shotgun news again last week, it's pretty cheap. mainly I get them to keep up on the new stuff coming out and to drool over things I can't afford... how bout MidwayUSA flyers, they come about every other day it seems! and their catalog every year along with Brownells annually. Every time I go shoot, I round up a bunch of old ones (I save the riflemans) to test out rounds for penetration. Set them inside a box and fire away at it. so they have dual purposes! or you could use them to line your walls with inside, they make good cover....... and they're fun to leave in the crappers or coffee tables of places you know don't appreciate guns, hahaa! done that on occasion... rip your address off and leave 'em in a waiting room, barber shop or whatever. __________________ "Loud noises don't end gunfights.... well placed shots do."

10-02-2012, 08:58 PM	#24
polishshooter Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Indiana Contributor Posts: 7,879	Re: Favorite gun magazine American Rifleman and Muzzle Blasts from the NRA and NMLRA I get every month... I keep saying I need to subscribe to G&A and Backwoodsman (I know, not REALLY a gun mag but good stuff with gun stuff in every issue) I have been saying for the last two years I need to subscribe to... Shotgun News I used to get, but let it slide....the once a month issues with the good articles were good, but the other two every month were about the same... Rifle Shooter and Handloader I buy occasionally when I am on the road and need something to read at dinner when I forget a book... But when I DO forget a book, I end up almost starving at the mag rack at Borders or Barnes and Nobles deciding WHICH mag to buy...every ONE seems to have at least one article I WANT to read....and $5 a pop minimum is a lot to spend for ONE article.... __________________ The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living. Last edited by polishshooter; 10-02-2012 at 08:59 PM..