What Magazines & Publications do you read ?

garrettod

Hi,

Just wondering, what magazines or other publications (incl. online) does everyone here read, or would people recommend (gun related only, needless to say ) ?

Also, with regards to "hard copy", do you subscribe or where do you buy them ?

Thought it might make for some interesting discussion and also, perhaps give us all one or two fresh ideas

electrichunter

i always get the shooters digest find it ok sometimes a lot of claynews on it more so , maybe it is lacking in articles for the lack of authors as i know they are looking for interested parties, so any follow posters up for it.
i took up shooting late in life and maybe beginners articles on various topics etc would be good . ialso watch the you tube channels of fieldsports and shooting show find them good.

deeksofdoom

Most of those magazines are repetitive same stuff every year, shooting times is about the best of them. There was a guy one time on another shooting forum in the uk, he used to write reviews of kit in some of the magazines in the uk. He wasn't shooting that long at all only about a year and there he was giving people advice in a shooting mag and asking the most bone questions on the forum.

As for online stuff on youtube, Shooting Show although all of the presenters speak in the same monotone voices. fields sports channel is quite good.

And my favourite is iraqveterean8888, some some ****ed up southern boys with some great gun reviews.

Nekarsulm

Forgotten Weapons on YouTube.
Don't buy magazines any more.
Check out ebay.co.uk for the "Gough Thomas" series of books on shotguns and cartridges etc. Very good reference books to have. Also search for "Chris Craddock".

edit. Actually bought The Shooters Digest a few times recently, as there are running a series on gun type history and development. But the articles are severely constrained duty to limited space available to the author.

sniperman

i dont buy mags at all.get all the info i need from the net.

useurowname

Some of the British Mags to be fair are useful for pointers for the novice. Particularly info around the areas of gun fit, maintenance, mount etc and especially dog training. After a while they become very repetitive and the review features tend to be a little too generous and critique of products(particularly new guns) limited, the best of these I found are the reviews of used guns in Shooting Times and Countrymans Weekly, Sporting Gun no longer carries this feature unfortunately. Irish Shooters Digest is okay, to be honest it looks like it's produced on a tight budget but it's good to flick over from time to time to catch up on events or results and some articles can be interesting. All told I'd say I buy it and Irish Country Living about twice a year, usually the week the Pheasant season starts, sometimes I pick up the Field or Shooting Gazette at the same time just to see how the other half live.

mallards

Sporting shooter is the only one I'll read. The rest are repetitive or more about driven Shooting than anything else.

Boar Hunter

Lately I find myself spending more time reading about shooting and hunting than actually doing any!

I get several different publications in both Digital format and traditional print.
I enjoy reading shooting sports as there are some good reviews of guns and optics and particularly enjoy the reloading and wildcat ammo articles written by Bruce Potts. Some interesting hunting articles also. However they do tend to run similar stores over again from year to year and have gotten heavy into all aspects of Airgun shooting. I just don’t read any repeats stories or any of the Airgun stuff so it’s not really an issue for me.

I do regularly purchase Guns and Ammo magazine in digital format as well as Recoil. They have a lot of information and gear review pertaining to aspects of shooting that I participate in. Also in relation to American magazines I get Shooting Illustrated and American Rifleman, some excellent articles even one about the guns used in the Easter Rising in the American Rifle man a few years ago.

I do read two local Swiss magazines Chasse et Nature published in French and to help me learn and practice German Jadg & Natur.

I do some times get the Irish Shooters Digest sent over, it is usually whenever I have an urge to return home I read it and decided to stay where I am!!

mikeyboo

irish shooters digest,only fault alot of the pics or articles are in it have been in it b4 in some shape or form. sporting gun,its little bit dearer than the irish one but has more to read in it,imo each to there own tho

Forty Watt

For those interested in Deer the British Deer Society publishes a quarterly magazine to its members. It offers a good mix of stalking kit reviews and scientific studies on deer behaviour. Roe feature heavily but likewise fallow, red and sika. Photography is excellent and you learn a lot from the science.

For lottery winners Jagdzeit publish "Hunters Path" every quarter. Its a proper hardback again with lovely photography. Its full of hunting stories from all around the world. So think Moose, Elk, Musk Ox, Ibex, Elephant, Red etc. Africa features heavily but also more unusual destinations like Kyrgyzstan (I had to look up how to spell it..).

Kevhog1988

i read the countrymans weekly and a lot of shooting & ferreting shows on youtube.