What's your favorite gun magazine

[towerclimber37]

I read shotgun news occasionally....but these days, mostly I do research online and I don't particularly care what magazines say..if I want an opinion, I'll ask on this forum. we have so many folks with so much knowledge that its rare that I'll find something one of them haven't run into, shot or have some knowledge of.

if you don't believe me..try it..pick a firearm, and throw it out there...I'm willing to bet that at some point in time, someone has had contact with it.

[Marswolf]

but these days, mostly I do research online and I don't particularly care what magazines say..if I want an opinion, I'll ask on this forum. we have so many folks with so much knowledge that its rare that I'll find something one of them haven't run into, shot or have some knowledge of.

And we aren't being paid to not say bad things about ugly, black plastic, poorly designed, and dangerous handguns.

[deerslayer]

Here we go again.

[Marswolf]

Here we go again.

Not really. Glock, Galco and SigArms all have reputations for strong-arming publishers to not print bad stuff about their products.

Here's Dean Speir's story.

From http://www.thegunzone.com/credo.html.

We had a final but mild confrontation over a major investigative report I had done on the curious phenomenon I'd termed the "Glock kB! Syndrome," and when he let the piece languish on his desk for a month, I quietly resigned my Industry Editorship and left The New Gun Week in a late model huff. Glock then scored a minor P.R. coup by immediately purchasing a third of a page of advertising for the next month or so and having it run on the same page 3 which would have featured my Industry Intelligencer column. Their advertising gal, Sherry Collins, then "leaked" the news within the gunzine crowd that Glock, Inc. had had me fired, and any other writers who had envisioned sneaking anything of a critical nature into a Glock feature, immediately rethought their position, and went back to churning out "We got the gun, it looked great, shot good and you can get one at your local gunstore sometime this decade" types of features. (Usually there was a line in there about "acceptable combat accuracy," which, as my colleague Charlie Petty some years ago noted, was code for "they don't make a target stand big enough for my barn door!")

[deerslayer]

Hmmm...sounds like his colleague Charlie Petty needed some marksmanship lessons. However, like you, I don't put a lot of stock in gun magazine articles. I would never base a decision on whether or not to buy a product on what some gunwriter said. I do, however, enjoy the informative pieces by Taylor and Ayoob in Combat Handguns, although they usually deal with tactics or legal issues, not products.

And just for the record, I know a guy who had a kB in a .40 cal Glock. Like Speir writes, he was using his own reloads, and has, in my opinion, the terrible habit of picking up used brass off the range floor/grass. He and his wife (who still shoots a Glock) also routinely have FTEs and FTFs. Thus, I'll never be caught using his ammo. I would never reload .40 ammo for any gun (ESPECIALLY a Glock); the .40 round just leaves so little room for error (not that there should be ANY error). I REALLY wouldn't use cases (for any caliber) that I picked up and didn't know how hot they were previously loaded, who reloaded them, how many times they had been used, etc. Anybody shoot Tennessee Cartridge? Well, you're shooting about the lowest grade of reloaded ammo available commercially. Lousy quality control. One local store gives ~$2 off every box if you bring in the used brass from the last box. How many times that stuff has been used?

[Guest Halfpint]

There's absolutely no telling--in defense of C/A if we're the "local store," neither I nor the manager push that ammo at all. The boss makes us keep it because "some people just want cheap ammo and won't pay the extra $2 for factory new stuff." For my part, I won't even point it out unless a customer specifically asks for it, and even then, I tell them it's crap--though I use words like "iffy," "inconsistent pressure," and "it voids the warranty on some guns" unless they're regular customers... if they still want it, I'll sell it, but I really push the factory-new ammo.

[deerslayer]

I was referring to G&A; did not know CA does it as well.

BTW, you guys sell pepper spray?

[Guest Halfpint]

We do... the generic $15 kind, and the Guardian Angel by Kimber. Sold out of the latter at the moment, everybody wanted them for stocking stuffers I guess. More on the way though.