Which gun magazine subscriptions?

[Belgiboy]

I want a little help with getting a couple more gun-related magazine subscriptions. At the moment I'm only subscribed to Guns and Ammo, which is OK for the pics but they shy away too much from anything that might offend a potential advertiser, e.g. there is never a bad review in G&A.
I love all that goes bang. I shoot handgun, rifle and shotgun and I reload for my Rem 700 Varmint rifle. I collect C&R rifles. I do not carry concealed but I like to know and read about tactics and politics surrounding that.
What do you guys and girls read in the bathroom and why?

[gunshop guy]

I subscribe to: American Handgunner, Guns, American Rifleman, and the USCCA magazine. Handgunner is the one I like best, but the magazine that you get with the USCCA membership is another good one (they actually say when they don't like a gun, not a bunch of "yes men").

[DeanC]

I have subscriptions to:
Guns & Ammo
Guns & Ammo Handguns
Shooting Times
American Rifleman
Guns
American Handgunner
Gun Tests
Outdoor Life
Minnesota Sportsman

I borrow my office partner's:
Combat Handguns

I will sometimes buy off the newsstand (If they don't have too many uber-tactical AR-15 articles):
Guns & Weapons for Law Enforcement
Special Weapons for Military & Police
Soldier of Fortune

I also will sometimes swing by the Rockford Road library and catch up on what Jan Libourel is writing in:
Gun World

A great place to get cheap subscriptions is through Amazon.com. After I relocated my office, I switched all of my subscriptions to my new office address and I started to get "Professional Discount" offers on all these gun and hunting magazines so I couldn't refuse them. ($8/year for Shooting Times, etc.). I think I also just accepted a really cheap deal on "Rifle Shooter" but I can't remember.

[justaguy]

I read Musky Hunter while I’m on the can (you asked). Gun rags aren’t all “yes men”? Maybe I’ll try some mentioned.

[1911fan]

WHile substantially down from the high points of having Ludwig Olsen or Ken Waters as every day writers, and with Finn Aagard gone as well, they have some work to do, but I find Rifle and Handloader to be two of the best.

Varmint Hunter is a quarterly, but its darn good, on its subject and the subject of making rifles shoot tiny groups at insane distances.

Accurate Rifle and Precision Shooter are dying which is sad. they were truly good works.

American handgunner, which has Ayoob in it, is pretty good, but Clint smith is an overbearing snot who finds humor in calling those who believe something different from him "turd suckers". The tone of the magazine has declined a lot. Charlie Petty does write for them too, and he is an upstanding guy, I have emailed him a lot and chatted with him a couple of times when the budget allowed travel to SHOT.

[cmj685]

I get several magazines, but the best of them for tactics is probably SWAT, which is still not terrifically tactical. I think that most tactical teachers simply don't want to share the bounty of their knowledge for a small fee to a huge audience through a magazine article, when they can charge high sums to people to come out to their facilities and get their proprietary knowledge that way. As to gun reviews, I have yet to read a negative review in any magazine, including SWAT, of any gun, so I am not sure you will get anything like that, no matter what magazine you are getting. They are all pretty much all advertising and that sets the agenda for everything. But you can get alot better at reading between the lines, and figure out when the writer is "damning with faint praise". On the other hand, obviously there is no perfect gun (unless it is the Glock 19 ) so you have to decide what you want and need, and take a gun that is strong in those areas, and accept the disadvantages as well.

[Rip Van Winkle]

The only gun magazines I still receive are American Rifleman and Shooting Sports USA.

I long ago came to the conclusion that modern gun writers are nothing but "equipment whores" all too willing to sell off their creditability for whatever goodies their sponsors hand out.

[lenny7]

I only get American Rifleman, which I like. Every once in a while I buy a copy of Shotgun News, mostly to read through the ads.

Every once in a while I get other gun mags, but I get so tired of them reviewing guns I can't afford and telling me they're the best ever.

[EAJuggalo]

I just signed up for a subscription to Combat Handguns, I enjoy the articles by Ayoob with the legal aftermath of a shooting as well as some of the new products reviews.

[Squib Joe]

Small Arms Review, Gun Digest Magazine (formally "Gun List" weekly - good writing by Bryce Towsley, Dave Workman, Charlie Cutshaw, and Minnesotan Scott Bestul. Worth a subscription), Shotgun News, Shooting Industry, and Gun Tests.

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