Which magazine do you guys read?

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Was at safeway and my local store has about 6 different gun magazines.
Tactical, black rifle, swat, shooting and weapons are sort of the chooses.
I like the black rifle mag but I assume most of the stuff in it is prohibated here.
 
I subscribe to tactical weapons. Seems most of the cool new guns that are not hunting orientated that get people all excited on here get reviews.

All kinds of tactical semis shotguns and bolt action goodness. Like all magazines they don't give any bad reviews but lots of good info anyways.

The majority of stuff they review we can own here. As well as stories on different military and police units and their guns.
 
I don't really read any gun magazine. I find so many of them full to the brim with bull#### and outright lies. I'm also completely sick of seeing 1911 reviews. They are ALL the same review.
 
there's been NOTHING new in the last 20 years or so-every article you read is someone with either a new gee-gaws or trying to re-invent the wheel- most of them also have either some of jeff cooper's or elmer keith's old works, and if you buy their BOOKS you have a pretty good handle on this sport
 
Join the NRA. They send you two magaines monthly that are both incredible.

My favorite is American Rifleman.

I've been tempted to scan and post some of the articles they are so good. Right now I'm reading about the new sniper rifles and their results in Afghanistan.
 
smak_daddy said:
Join the NRA. They send you two magaines monthly that are both incredible.

My favorite is American Rifleman.

I've been tempted to scan and post some of the articles they are so good. Right now I'm reading about the new sniper rifles and their results in Afghanistan.
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NRA? aint that Amerka? you join for the magasines? (scuse my silly questions,just curious :)
 
Jesuswon said:
NRA? aint that Amerka? you join for the magasines? (scuse my silly questions,just curious :)
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Oh Christ. I see your from quebec, so I'll cut you some slack.

Yep the NRA is American. Oh the horror. :rolleyes:

I joined because I fight for gun rights.

As a result of being a member, the NRA sends me awesome magazies. Plus their website rocks. I've bought some great tumbler glasses and served my anti-gun guests drinks in them.

For the record I am also a lifetime member of the NFA and CSSA.
 
I'm also a member of the NRA, yes their mags are free...... IMO I think it is the best bang for your buck as the membership dues are les than most mag subscritpions.

I'm also a member of the CSSA and the NFA, as well as 4 local shooter/hunter clubs/orgs.

Personally I subscribe to 8 different mags.

2 from the NRA (American Hunter & Rifleman)
1 from the Sask wildlife fed (Outdoor Canada)
plus I believe the NFA send me a rag 3 or 4 times a year.

I pay for; The Shooting times, Gun World, Guns & Ammo, Black Rifle, Successful Hunter, Rifle and Handloader.

I still recieve black Rifle but I did not renew the subscription, I find the content to be almost useless 'up here'. That and I find all of the other mags will get to the stuff I find interesting in that mag as well.

I still have 1 year left on my Gun World, Guns and Ammo and Successful Hunter subscriptions but I think I will let them expire without renewal as well. Again, (IMHO) I find I get all of their content from other mags.

Personally I think that if you had a subsrciption to The Shooting Times, Rifle and Handloader (in addition to the freebies from the orgs) you will pretty much be up to speed in the firearms world.......

YMMV
Cheers!
 
LOL... I only read the Cabelas mag and Delta Waterfowl. If I want to know about black rifle stuff, I do my own research then buy and try. Gun mag reviews are less than worthless IMHO. I've yet to read a bad review published in an actual magazine.

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I knew there would be different opinions on the topic. I thank you all for posting. Question, other than most of the reviews being abit jaded, are most of the firearms reviewed legal in canada?
I'd hate to find a sweet gun or upgrade and find that it's not legal.
For instance, Center Balanced System make stocks/ upgrades to alot of guns. I'd love to buy there 597 rimfire stock. However I think it's banned here.
I have a contact number of the CFO in Alberta and will chat with them to confirm the stock.
Anyway, thanks again!
 
Claven2 said:
LOL... I only read the Cabelas mag and Delta Waterfowl. If I want to know about black rifle stuff, I do my own research then buy and try. Gun mag reviews are less than worthless IMHO. I've yet to read a bad review published in an actual magazine.

Parlez-vous paid advertising?
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While I don't disagree with you (as most gun rags will not print anything negative) I still find it a lot easier to keep up with the industry if you read stuff from with-in the industry. Just take any info contained theirin with a pound of salt......

If I didn't read gun rags, I'd still only own a .243, a 2 3/4 12ga and a .22 cooey.....
 
notsorichguy said:
I'm also a member of the CSSA and the NFA, as well as 4 local shooter/hunter clubs/orgs.

Personally I subscribe to 8 different mags.

2 from the NRA (American Hunter & Rifleman)
1 from the Sask wildlife fed (Outdoor Canada)
plus I believe the NFA send me a rag 3 or 4 times a year.


YMMV
Cheers!
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FYI: NFA members receive six full issues of Canadian Firearms Journal & six issues of Western Sportsman/Canada's Outdoor Sportsman magazine as part of their membership. Both magazines are glossy, full colour mags, printed on high quality paper.

When you join the NRA you have a choice of several NRA publications. Usually there is a duplication of several articles between each of the publications such as in American Rifleman & American Hunter. You also have the choice of paper subscription or digital.

As for general gun mags, I used to subscribe to Guns & Ammo, Guns, Gun World, Shooting Times, Handloader, Rifle and Shotgun News, along with SWAT & Guns & Weapons for Law Enforcement. I've got a year left on Shooting Times, I've let all the others run out except Handloader & Rifle. The general gun mags like G&A have become little more than classified adverts masquerading as articles about guns; while the repetition of content between multiple magazines all owned by a single umbrella media conglomerate has become insane. Even Shooting Times has become a shadow of its former self. The only two mags that still seem worth buying is Handloader & Rifle. The writers are generally pretty good, they know their stuff, and I can usually find at least one gem or two amongst the chaff.

As for the "tactical" style magazines...they're great as gun ####, but essentially everything written focuses on the AR-15, or Benelli/Remington/Mossberg tactical shotguns and the latest whizz-bang accessory to hang off of it. I find the on-line fourms such as CGN, AR-15.com, M4Carbine.net, etc...just as helpful and even more honest opinions, appraisals to be found, if you read carefully. That isn't to knock anyone who still subscribes. I just decided to spend the premium coin such mags cost on components to keep the old Dillon clanking along.:D
 
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