I have let the vast majority of my magazine prescriptions run out. They are rather boring to me to be honest. I am a big bore devote, of that there is no doubt. I very rarely entertain anything under 338 caliber, and most rarely anything under 416 caliber. I live in 458-500.

I still get some magazines from the NRA, Rifleman, and something else. I get the nice glossy Safari Club magazine, but rarely even take the plastic off the cover. Life member, so I get it anyway. I get that other Safari paper from SCI, but use it for Marko and never open it either. Marko? My big Red Bird! He reads it I think while sitting on the toilet, or over it I should say. I get Handloader and Rifle Magazine, and have a collection of those going back to issue #1. And of course the DVD set as well. But even those are somewhat mundane, and have been for several years, rarely anything of quality or interest in any of them these days. Shooting Times I think I still get, but that will run out as well.

We were talking some the other day about North Fork and CEB bullet adverts. This started me to thinking, what magazines do we get and actually look at? I think there are some Double Rifle magazines out there, I am not privy to, and probably some others as well. What magazines to you get, do you still enjoy them, and would money be well spent doing adverts in them for our bullet guys?

I hate and despise TV adverts! I watch very little network TV or TV with adverts, hate them. But, I do in fact look at all the Adverts in the magazines, it seems to me a good source of info, and about the best substance these days in most of the rags we get.

Just Curious is all!

Michael

If you aren't going to write a book why not start a B&M magazine! All about big bores!

Sports Afield "The Premier Hunting Magazine"
American Rifleman (NRA)
American Hunter (NRA)
Rifle (Wolfe)
Handloader (Wolfe)
African Hunting Gazette
and
Dangerous Game Hunting (Dimech Bros., quarterly ... just to keep up with Will's pennings)

I scan Shooting Times and Guns & Ammo at the newsstand, and buy them only if there is something interesting in them like Layne Simpson's pieces on the .50 B&M Alaskan.

There should be feature articles about CEB in all the above magazines. Get them to pay their writers to do artcles on CEB.
Start advertising first in any of the pubs that do an article about CEB.

After finding AR the gun rags bore me pretty much unless it is about some new gun. Sporting Classics is a decent one. I think a magazine for big bores would be cool.

Double gun journal is the only subsciption I have anymore. I'd take it just for the quality of their pictures, but the writing is good too!

Dang RIP, I didn't know Will was a magazine writer as well. Between his books and his wallets he must make some pretty good money for his elephant-hunting account!



Michael: Yeah, I find virtually all the magazines have extremely serious shortcomings.

I get AND read Rifleman the SCI magazine and paper. Can't say I'm a bigbore shooter but do have the following,416 Rigby,405 Win,450/400 and do shoot them occaisonally. Now I mostly shoot handguns at an indoor range. Don't really read many gun magazines. Used to read Hatari Times when I got it (which was very occaisonally)and African Hunter (same results). I occaisonally pick up something if it happens to have an article I'm interested in. Have no real complaints about the Rifleman and Safari Club magazine. They are produced well and I read some articles in both and skip some articles in both as I do with most magazines. Would probably never pick up a magazine devoted exclusively to 'Big Bore' as I am interested in a more varied range of firearms. I have actually read Will's latest and find it an honest appraisal of Elephant hunting as I know it. Well written and pertinent.

I'm with you Mike. For me it's anything under 375 that gets boring. I still get Shooting Times, Rifle Mag, American Rifleman, & Garand Collector.

Didn't I see a Cutting Edge Bullet add this morning on Tom Maranda's hunting show? Heck of a one-shot-head-on big buck shot

Sam

Me, a magazine? No man, too busy for that. Book? Nahh, would become a book peddler like Will, and begin to think I was a Know everything about all things!

RIP
DGHunting? Have not seen that one. Will is in it? Oh well!


I forgot, I now also get the Dallas Safari publication as well. I will have to look at it a little closer. I normally have a stack of things I throw under my desk for looking at later, go through them every few months or so. I get behind. Today I was looking forward to going through the new Handloader, I saw where it had something about new handloading tools. Well, it took about 2 minutes to see that was much ado about crap! Nothing. I see they were talking about a Primer Test? That peaked my interest, until I found out it was more or less something Bob Hagel did in the 80s, and anything else was about a damned handgun as if anything would make much difference! Sorry, I just can't get much interested in serious handgun handloading or science. No offense to my handgun buds out there of course, but there is only so much you can do with a handgun to get peak performance!

I have a hard time stomaching SCI magazine. I have a friend that always does an article for them when he hunts. They actually have told him to make it a little more dangerous! Then most of the articles in those things are more about the hunting and not much about bullets, rifles, and such. 9 Steps from Certain Death, and things like that!

Ya reckon folks that read SCI magazine would even pay much attention to the bullets they use? Some would of course, but the majority? Not to be picking on SCI.

I have heard the DR Journal is a nice magazine, have not seen one, not being that into doubles and all. Sam needs to do an article for those folks, then maybe I would look at it too.

I think I will let mine dwindle down to Handloader and Rifle magazine, and of course will always get the ones from NRA, SCI and now Dallas too.

Of course the ones with B&M articles have special places and are of the finest!

HEH
Michael

600OK

http://site.cuttingedgebullets.com/main/commercial

I just saw that a few minutes ago on the CEB website! Have not seen it on TV, I am with that as I am with most of the gun rags now too. But that was a hell of a deer! I don't like deer, but even I would shoot that one! Gees!

Michael

Michael: Double Rifle Journal isn't just about doubles, although DRs remain the focus. I always enjoy the stuff by Ross Seyfried, and Sherman Bell is truly an original investigator.
I pretty much toss the SCI magazine unopened as well. DSC is a bit more readable, but not much. I just get tired of society shots, guys in tuxes with big checks, trophies, plaques, handshakes etc. Boring to tears.
I find that I am much happier since I let my Rifle and Handloader subs run out. This way I can buy only the issues that have something of interest in them.

I've gone through a few here and there,and concluded that they were all not worth it.Perhaps I am mistaken and there are ones out there that are very good-could be beacuse I've not seen them all.Anything rich in information or high quality would interest me, on any subject.I would really be interested on a african,open sight only hunting magazine.One with in depth information on all subjects ranging from shooting,to rifles,handloads,bullet tests on various mediums, equipment,nature or wildlife,tracking,culture,info on the lives of the trackers etc...

I pick up and read every gun rag I can get my hands on. There are no words to express my excitement as I eagerly await the latest article to pit the .375 against the .416. Nor can I begin to describe the satisfaction I feel upon learning about the newest and shortest magnums and how they will make every pre-WWII cartridge obsolete. I constantly read about plains rifles, mountain rifles, bean-field rifles, timber rifles, cross-canyon rifles, and swamp rifles so I know which of my rifles have lost their usefulness for a particular task and which new rifles to replace them with.

If it wasn't for a regular diet of gun writer's wisdom how could I intelligently ponder wood versus plastic, velocity versus mass, bonded versus monolithic, blued versus coated, or just where to mount my scope? If I hadn't kept up with gun articles how would I have known about all twenty-eight versions of Remington's model 700 and the subtle yet fundamental differences that make each one unique? How would I have known elk have grown immune to the effects of the .30-06 and .358 Win and can now only be killed with the 300 RUM and 376 Steyr? How would I have learned that ten different companies fixed the deficient 98 Mauser by cloning it and adding a copy of a Winchester safety?

So, to make sure that I stay abreast of all things of a ballistic and hunting nature, I indulge myself with all available gun magazines - even though they may get a little repetitious.

Good info here but links would be very helpful. That way those persons intersted (like me) in trying new magazines actually have a source for them.

Thanks in advance,

Hizzie

OK, I admit it too, I scan the table of contents of all of them I can get my hands on, and quickly move on, except for the ones I listed above.
As for the Double Gun and Single Shot Journal being a treasure trove:
I used to collect it too, but have tired of looking for a reference to the .395 caliber of the 1870s.
They just don't get obscure enough for me, and are mainly just aimed at the nostalgia-sotted reader.
The nostalgia-sotted readers are not the types who want to really advance performance in the field.

What would be the best pubs for Cutting Edge Bullets advertising?
Wolfe's Rifle & Handloader.
They need to publish an article on this up-and-coming line of bullets.
Then run some ads.

Sic Layne Simpson on it. He is obsessive-compulsive and detail-oriented enough to do a decent job of it.
Plus, he is a good ol'boy from South Carolina.

Dangerous Game Hunting: They are struggling to survive, and are (correction) only a semi-annual now, thanks to Bill Stewart they are hanging on.

I'll post the cover and table of contents if they don't mind a little advertising here.
Will's piece set the cover motif, top billing:

quote:

Originally posted by Grenadier:
I pick up and read every gun rag I can get my hands on. There are no words to express my excitement as I eagerly await the latest article to pit the .375 against the .416. Nor can I begin to describe the satisfaction I feel upon learning about the newest and shortest magnums and how they will make every pre-WWII cartridge obsolete. I constantly read about plains rifles, mountain rifles, bean-field rifles, timber rifles, cross-canyon rifles, and swamp rifles so I know which of my rifles have lost their usefulness for a particular task and which new rifles to replace them with.

If it wasn't for a regular diet of gun writer's wisdom how could I intelligently ponder wood versus plastic, velocity versus mass, bonded versus monolithic, blued versus coated, or just where to mount my scope? If I hadn't kept up with gun articles how would I have known about all twenty-eight versions of Remington's model 700 and the subtle yet fundamental differences that make each one unique? How would I have known elk have grown immune to the effects of the .30-06 and .358 Win and can now only be killed with the 300 RUM and 376 Steyr? How would I have learned that ten different companies fixed the deficient 98 Mauser by cloning it and adding a copy of a Winchester safety?

So, to make sure that I stay abreast of all things of a ballistic and hunting nature, I indulge myself with all available gun magazines - even though they may get a little repetitious.

Hey Michael,
Isn't Paul Trucollo one of your buds from down-under? I notice he's a contributor to Dangerous Game Hunting.

quote:

Originally posted by capoward:
Hey Michael,
Isn't Paul Trucollo one of your buds from down-under? I notice he's a contributor to Dangerous Game Hunting.

Yep, that's my boy! Shit, I guess now I am going to have to find these!

RIP: Thanks for posting that. I'm going to look into subscribing to DGH. Had no idea the magazine existed until this thread. Sorry to hear they are struggling; I'll bet they could up a lot of new subscribers here at AR.

I regularly get and occasionally read:

American Rifleman
American Hunter
African Hunting Gazette
Dangerous Game Hunting (even had them send me back issues)
Petersen's Hunting
SCI Magazine and newspaper
Shooting Times

I scan G&A, Outdoor Life, Sports Afield and Double Gun Journal if I happen to be at B&N.

My usual habit is to page through them to unwind after a particularly difficult day. I bring the pile of them when I am off hunting or flying to a meeting/conference/lecture.

Never a real source of new information but beats the crap on TV particulary since I get none of the outdoor channels.

quote:

Originally posted by srose:
If you aren't going to write a book why not start a B&M magazine! All about big bores!

Michael, put me down for a three year subscription

I am also going to subscribe to Dangerous Game Hunting, first I have heard of that magazine also, too bad they are struggling. I just emailed them for info and back issues.

quote:

Originally posted by doubledown:

quote:

Originally posted by srose:
If you aren't going to write a book why not start a B&M magazine! All about big bores!

Michael, put me down for a three year subscription

I am also going to subscribe to Dangerous Game Hunting, first I have heard of that magazine also, too bad they are struggling. I just emailed them for info and back issues.

Thanks Doubledown, hell of a compliment, how about a free for life subscription to the website? HEH HEH.....

Me too, going have to check out the DGH see what they are made of. Hope there is more than hunting stories!

Michael

Bill,
The Dimech Brothers are struggling only in the sense that they are a recent entrant on the scene with their magazine, DGH.
They have been available only on newstands/bookstores so far.
I have seen issues at Barnes&Noble, Books-A-Million, and Borders (before the local Borders went TU).

It has had only June and December, semi-annual issues since 2009.
Only five so far.


Here they say they are going to start offerring subscriptions soon, so stay tuned:

www.dimechbrosdgh.com

I am going to have to email them and see if I can buy a set of back issues to send to Doc M,
or he can have my five.

Sales/Back Issues: salesDGH@aol.com

Maybe the Dangerous Game Brass bullets from CEB should be advertised in Dangerous Game Hunting magazine?
Sounds like a good match.
Hornady thought so too.
They even let the Dimech brothers use "Dangerous Game" in the title of the magazine.

Might be a good start, probably less expensive than some of the bigger magazines to put a full page ad in.

Now who is going to write the article about CEB to go in DGH?
Will?

I don't mind Garden & Gun, nothing to do w. big bores, usually - but a decent magazine.

Ron,
Sports Afield
American Rifleman (NRA)
Rifle (Wolfe)
Handloader (Wolfe)
Precision Shooting
Varmint Hunters Assn magazine

The last two because I am a serious PD shooter. Did that today!
Max

quote:

Originally posted by michael458:
Sam

anything else was about a damned handgun as if anything would make much difference! Sorry, I just can't get much interested in serious handgun handloading or science. No offense to my handgun buds out there of course, but there is only so much you can do with a handgun to get peak performance!


HEH
Michael

I always enjoy a good laugh. thanks.

Max,
Yep, Precision Shooting, I subscribed for two years then let it go, good rag that it was.
Do they still arrive in a black plastic wrapper like a porno magazine?
I enjoyed the historical pieces as much as anything in PS.

Varmint Hunting?
Coyotes are too smart for me or I stink too much.
I called in a bobcat when trying to call coyotes.
A .223/50grainer fragmentation grenade did not leave much for taxidermy of that cat.

I have only shot two coyotes, one while it was rolling around on a long-dead lamb carcass, in coyote nirvana, as I topped a ridge and saw it in the pasture below.
That coyote stunk!
The other was a lucky shot on the run at 200 yards with a 25-06.
Hey! this is the Big Bores Forum!

Hi Jim Lang! You are more than welcome, I strive to please! As for the handgun performance, I don't do big bore handguns, hurts my hands, but I love a 1911, and there is only so much can be done to a 45 acp cartridge! If it goes bang and works the slide, feeds and functions, then that's pretty much it! Can you imagine trying different primers to see which one gives you another 5 fps? No thanks! LOL.....


RIP

quote:

Now who is going to write the article about CEB to go in DGH?
Will? dancing

Yes, it might work, but can Will spell "CEB" ???????


I see some interesting things on the bottom of those magazines, which has far more interest to me than "hunting stories"---Rifles For Dangerous Game, Elephant Rifles, and of course Winchester Safari Express! Now that sounds interesting, but of course I am afraid, like all of them, the authors knowledge is severely limited in most arenas! Not entirely their fault, just limited! Maybe I am wrong? Let's hope so!

Michael

Dangerous Game Hunting Magazine

Contacted them as was told that back issues are $10 each shipped. Only Elepahnt, lion, rhino and bear cover issues are available.

I generally prefer 30-round magazines, although I will settle for fewer rounds depending on the rifle and the circumstances.

quote:

Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
I generally prefer 30-round magazines, although I will settle for fewer rounds depending on the rifle and the circumstances.

Rifle
Sports Afield
Gray's Sporting Journal

For me, I enjoy reading the following,

Man (Magnum), RSA

Shooting Times & Country Magazine, Great Britain, weekly...a one page historical article is included every week, but not necessarily about large bores or even rifles; each could be on small bores, shotguns, air rifles, punt guns, anything else that shoots, even harpoon guns, a real potpourri (SP?)...LARGE format

Rifle, USA

Handloader, USA

The ones I really dislike?

Double Gun Journal

Gray's

Peterson's Hunting

American Rifleman

Agree with you about Petersen's Hunting and I would include Rifle Shooter as a dislike too after reading it for many years.
African Hunter and Eastman's Journal are also good
Probably the best UK one is Fieldsports, which is published quarterly, covering bird shooting, deer (and sometimes African game) stalking and fly fishing.

After years of reading all the above magazines, all I see is repetition, they simply have run out of stuff to write about..I get comped copies of most hunting magazines and just skim through them for the most part, unless I have an article concerning my business in them, like Phil shoemakers "Buffalo, An American Serengeti"

The only magazine that I care for is Harold Wolfe's HATARI TIMES, Harold knows his stuff, he is and outstanding gunsmith and big bore fan..His writting is all consuming..

I will however get one of the Big Game Hunting magazines, Never heard of it before Rip came up with it...

What Magazines Do Big Bore Shooters Indulge?

Michael, if they're like you...I guess Playboy and Penthouse??? :-)

The same magazine that Al Bundy reads.................BIG'UNS

quote:

Originally posted by Biebs:
What Magazines Do Big Bore Shooters Indulge?

Michael, if they're like you...I guess Playboy and Penthouse??? :-)

BUSTED!!!!!!!! DAMN!

Do you have any idea what will happen to me if Momma finds out????

I will look like that for real, no teeth in the front, and probably missing a few other parts as well!

RIP

As you know I did in fact receive all the issues of the Dangerous Game hunting magazines you so kindly sent to me, again, thank you very much!

Sad to say, I have not had time to do a thorough investigation of even one of them as of yet, have been too busy on the range of late. But, I did manage to force myself to read two different articles by some chap named "Bill Stewart". Yes, I think our very own Will! Of course I think it's fairly well know that sometimes Will and I clash a bit, probably our strong willed personalities is about all. At any rate, I have to admit that I found the two articles well done, well stated, and I really could not find anything that I strongly disagreed with! And I looked for something as well! So regardless of personal clashes, both articles were actually pretty good! Well done Will!

Michael

Gentlemen,

Thanks for the info about Dangerous Game Hunting magazine. It sounds interesting, and it also sounds like they could use some additional subscribers.

Do you have any opinions on African Outfitter magazine:

http://www.africanoutfitter.com/


I don't subscribe to it but have acquired quite a few issues during trips to Africa, and it seems that they often have articles on big bores.

Dale