Double Gun Journal

In Western Canada in areas served by Save-On Foods, magazine racks still exist and firearms and hunting magazines are not discriminated against. However, unless your interests are limited to fishing, trophy white-tail hunting, or guided hunts, you won’t find a single article of interest in any of them.

In forums such as this one, groups of upland hunters, lovers of “best” guality guns, and those who simply appreciate the sophisticated designs that double guns have achieved, can be found. Wherever they are found, it is clear from the discussions that these groups are full of people passionate about their preferred pastimes. They (we) constantly buy and sell guns - always looking for a better fit or a smoother swing. One is never enough; there’s always one more model, maker, or load to try. Great sums are spent on shells, reloading equipment, and accessories, not to mention travel. We are even prepared to spend on site memberships and periodicals.

In preparation for hunting season, hunters of both upland and migratory species are scouring the shelves for just the right loads. They need boots specific to the type of hunting and the terrain, moisture-wicking pants and jackets that breathe, water packs - even the right hat.

All of the above only touches on the insatiable need double gunners have for stories, facts, guns, supplies, and accessories that are rarely directly served. Even gun and hunting magazines seldom devote a story to our subjects of interest.

The DGJ was a breath of fresh air in an industry apparently blind to a large portion of their market.
 
Sadly, it is shuttering the printing press. Was a great 33 year run. I have most of them. Guess I'll have to grab the few years I'm missing now.

Apparently they have a decent supply of back issues, according to a post on Facebook a few days ago.

The DGJ was a breath of fresh air in an industry apparently blind to a large portion of their market.

DGJ was an outstanding publication, but I don't think that the industry was particularly blind to "a large portion of their market". The US hunting market is massively slanted towards whitetails, turkeys, and the AR platform. People like us that won't run away screaming from a gun with fixed chokes and walnut stocks are no longer the majority and haven't been for some time. Hence why print magazines are dying.
 
I still subscribe to the Shooting Sportsman and Sporting Classics. I always look forward to reading their articles on shotguns and shotgun hunting.
 
Not a magazine but a hard cover book- I see amazon.ca has "Vintage British Shotguns: A Shooting Sportsman Guide" by Terry Weiland on sale for 54% off. Not familiar with this one myself, at least I don't think so, which meant I had to buy it. The reviews are good.
 
^^^ Took delivery of the above book last night. The author writes for Shooting Sportsman, which is why his name was familiar despite my not having owned or read the book (I turned it up while trying to see if Amazon.ca was offering discounted subscriptions to the magazine- no) At a quick glance, the book's a bit text dense and photo light, ie, no gun p_orn to speak of, and clearly written by an American for Americans. Glad to have it.
 
I dropped by Eddie von Atzigen’s (the now retired Swiss gunsmith living in Peterborough) home one day about 7-8 years ago and while there, he showed me and let me handle this beautiful Dickson round action that belonged to Terry Welland. Terry had been hunting in Canada, something happened with the gun and he left it with Eddie to be repaired, expecting to pick it up the next season. Terry has good taste in guns. Lol.
 
Terry Wieland does have superb taste in guns, as the following article will show:
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Terry Wieland does have superb taste in guns, as the following article will show:
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And from that site I see he's the shooting editor for Grey's. Man's knowledge must be wide and deep. Book's perceived value now swells!
 
^^^ Took delivery of the above book last night. The author writes for Shooting Sportsman, which is why his name was familiar despite my not having owned or read the book (I turned it up while trying to see if Amazon.ca was offering discounted subscriptions to the magazine- no) At a quick glance, the book's a bit text dense and photo light, ie, no gun p_orn to speak of, and clearly written by an American for Americans. Glad to have it.
Terry Weiland is Canadian believe it or not and a noted authority on fine doubles and Spanish doubles. He has many writing credits including several important definitive books. His book Spanish Best should be familiar to many here.
 
Terry Weiland is Canadian believe it or not and a noted authority on fine doubles and Spanish doubles. He has many writing credits including several important definitive books. His book Spanish Best should be familiar to many here.

He writes with the voice of an American then, but for understandable reasons.

EDIT: I also see the good times are over for the amazon.ca bargain offer and the book is back to full price, shipping from the UK.
 
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Well, I guess living at the edge of no-where means I saved some $ on magazine... as I didn't about this until I stumbled on this tread.
For shotgun stuff, I enjoy watching Jonny Carter on youtube (TGS Outdoors) and the Dogs and Doubles website

US magazines are very frustrating. As I'm sure most of us have seen, pick up a copy from a news stand and there will be a blow-in card inside offering a heavy discount on subscriptions for that magazine, that is for delivery within the USA, but said deal is off and the price triples or almost quadruples if you're in Canada, and then there's the dollar exchange. On top of that, issues tend to go missing when crossing the border, I guess because magazines are seen as having little value. When that's happened to me, I've found that a call to the mag in question can get one's subscription extended but the whole business is not happy-making.

Something else too, if the subscription is a gift one and you're not showing as the person who paid for it, you may well get ignored completely. I had an aunt that was gifting me a subscription to Yankee Magazine every Christmas (it was a great New England journal that people from my area could closely identify with) but I got so mad at their thumbing their nose at me that I asked her to stop paying it and ayup, I ain't seen one since times, naybuh.
 
The thing I found most annoying with "foreign" (As in UK shotgun/airgun stuff) was 1) the amount of stuff that wasn't available this side of the pond and 2) The ridiculously low price used guns were listed for.

Issuu (either the web or the apps) is another interesting place to browse for old editions of magazines
 
Terry Weiland is Canadian believe it or not and a noted authority on fine doubles and Spanish doubles. He has many writing credits including several important definitive books. His book Spanish Best should be familiar to many here.

I'm about 1/4 of the way into the book and I really like it. He explains the differences between British and American double barrel shotguns in a frank and truly eye opening way, and boy does he love side by sides. It's like fate wanted me to find this book, lol.
 
The thing I found most annoying with "foreign" (As in UK shotgun/airgun stuff) was 1) the amount of stuff that wasn't available this side of the pond and 2) The ridiculously low price used guns were listed for.

Issuu (either the web or the apps) is another interesting place to browse for old editions of magazines

That looks to be a very deep mine, one so deep that it's hard to tell what's there. There's a lot of what I would call Ziff-Davis publications for sure, but also I did find this old Holland and Holland lifestyle brochure right away. It's the kind of lush advertising that makes me wish I'd been born rich instead of beautiful.

https://issuu.com/hollandandholland/docs/the_shooting_field
 
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