Are there any Magazines left worth thinking about subscribing to? I get the American Rifleman through the NRA. What about some of the others?

Phil

Not many!! Occasionally, there's an article worth reading in Shooting Times, and often Ross Seyfried's stuff in handloader or Rifle is still something new, but not always. Most of the rest are merely republishing reformatted articles they already printed a time or two!!

I like Petersen's Rifle shooter.
I just got a subscription.

Johan

Handloader and Rifle (Wolfe Publishing) are all that I subscribe to anymore. Handloader is my favorite and gets read from cover to cover.

Shooting Times and Guns and Ammo I read in about 2 minutes each at the Supermarket and put them back on the rack. They bait you with a topic. Articles usually has no information and lack honest opinions as if they have to watch out what they say. Not even worth $10.00 a year.

I stopped Petersons Hunting. Reading about hunting trips that I could never take because of the cost or lack of connections only piss me off when I read them.

[ 08-05-2002, 00:52: Message edited by: wildcat51 ]

Don't even bother with the store racks anymore. Quit reading Guns & Ammo years ago. But went to Wolfe Publishing's web site and they had a special on new subscriptions. 1 Year for all three ( Handloading, Rifles, Hunting ) for $33 didn't sound too bad, so I went ahead and subscribed. Give them a try. I see their setting up a (for fee) load data base service, and have their own Internet Access service also.

I'll just stick with the magazines for now.

Thanks,

Phil

I get American Rifleman because they send you something when you're a member (and I guess it's better than Better Homes & Gardens). I subscribe to G&A, which sometimes has good articles and always something entertaining from their resident iconoclast, Jeff Cooper. I miss Charles Askins and Elmer Keith.

But I sure do wish I didn't suspect all the "gun writers" in both publications of being promotional consultants for whichever gun, cartirdge, bullet, or (especially) optics company whose product they're writing about. And I'm sick to death getting a gun publication to read about knives, ATV's, etc., and how to dress up (for only another $10K or so) the $35K pick-up I can't afford anyhow.

I also get the NWTF and DU magazines and consider DU to be slightly better, if only for the pictures.

I picked up a copy of Handloader the other day to read at lunch and thought it decent. There were some fairly in-depth articles and I'll probably end up subscribing to it and Rifle, although both are only 6 issues per year.

New reloading manuals usually have lots more interesting cartiedge/gun articles from the same writers, albeit short ones, and I'm a sucker for them. -WSJ

WSJ. If you really like Jeff Cooper, there is a site that has all of his comments. G&A only picks on the more politically correct comments. There is something like ten years or so of his stuff on the site. I think you can do a search on Jeff Cooper and find it. If not, E-mail me and I'll see if I can link it for yoy.
Paul B.