I haven't bought a gun rag in over 6 months and probably never will again. I have found that the net is as good a source of info and in many cases better than what the publishers want me to pay for.
I wholeheartedly agree with Duce, the gun rags have become little more than info-mercials. There was a time, at least 25 years ago now, that gun rags were a primary source of good information. Not so today, at least for me. Perhaps it is just me, and over the years I have become a somewhat mature and knowledgable reloader/shooter, and there is nothing I see new or interesting in the gun rags. But what I do see of them as I thumb through the pages in the grocery store, doesn't strike me as having the quality of the rags of years past. Worse yet is having to be subjected to having paid for reading articles of less quality than I can write myself.
I don't see good how to articles these days, but it was through reading Guns and Ammo and Shooting Times that I took up both reloading and casting. Late 70's through early 80's almost every issue of either would have very good articles on these topics. Not that I see today. I tried Rifle and Handloader for a while in the recent past and they are pretty good, but again, I get more from hanging out around a few boards.
There are many good people on the net, sharing the honest results of their shooting and reloading and working with guns and chamberings that interest me.
Twice I have seen writeups on the Handirifle, one my Mike Venturino, and one by Layne Simpson. Mike I felt, was given a rifle that had been worked over as at the time. Some 2 to 2 1/2 years ago, no one was getting rifles with 3 pound trigger pulls. He wrote a bit more glowingly than folks around this board were writing at the time. Layne wrote about a 308 Ultra and a 200 yard shot on a caribou. While he never put a hard figure on the groups he was getting, he made it plain that 2" was about what he was seeing.
I will still buy a magazine, but it has to have a lot to offer in both number and quality of articles
