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- From: rdh@sli.com (Robert D. Houk)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Gunzines (Was: Gun Tests Subscriptions)
- Message-ID: <RDH.92Dec20142225@ravel.sli.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 14:54:59 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Software Leverage, Inc. Arlington, Ma
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
- In-Reply-To: rayma@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu's message of 4 Dec 92 14:55:45 GMT
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- # declined to renew. While the idea of a "Consumer's Report" type
- magazine
- # for guns is great, IMHO _Gun Tests_ doesn't live up to the idea.
- ...
-
- So which magazine would you guys recommend? Most others seem so
- motivated by advertising $$$ that their reviews aren't worth anything
- ...
-
- Personally, I would rate _American Handgunner_ as first, _American Rifle-
- man_ as second. I still subscribe to _Gun Tests_. (This from the perspec-
- tive of handguns only.)
-
- American Handgunner seems to provide "realistic" reviews (I am inclined
- to believe what they have to say). They cover a fairly wide range of
- topics. And the photography is superb (hey - if I'm gonna drool over all
- sorts of nice toys I can't afford, at least gimme a nice picture of them
- instead!). American Handgunner - to me at least - has about the highest
- percentage of must-and-worth reading pages of any of the gunzines.
-
- American Rifleman is of course the American Rifleman. Need I say more?
-
- I continue my subscription to Gun Tests because they do provide a dif-
- ferent (albeit at a rather expensive dollars-to-words ration) viewpoint.
- I think its worth it just for that. I know of no other gunzine where I
- have found an article comparing a dozen different "oils" for lubrication
- and rust prevention (by actually taking pieces of steel, lubing them,
- and then abusing them). Gun Tests is also about the only place where I
- find several similar <x> (where <x> is "firearms", "oils", "reloaders",
- etc.) compared side-by-side. [I grant that after the "Dillon Fiasco" I
- was annoyed, but anyone who also claims that the Browning Hipower is still
- the class act to beat is OK in my book...] Actually, its kinda like Net
- News, gems scattered amongst all the noise . . .
-
- _Guns and Ammo_, _Shooting Times_, _Handgunning Quarterly_ (or whatever
- they turned into), etc. all seem kinda interchangeable. They all seem to
- run the same articles by the same people.
-
- Moste of the Wolfe publications are excellante (_Rifle_, _Handloading_,
- and whatever their hunting bi-now-allegedly-quadra-annual mag is - more
- superb photography).
-
- Of course one also runs the risk of having so much *reading* material that
- one doesn't seem to get around to much actual *doing* . . .
-
- -RDH
-