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I learned a great deal about guns, back in the 80s, from magazines. I still have a handful of them from the era and they all are better than today's versions. Shooting Times in particular is a ghost of its former self, with G&A close on its heels.
I subscribed to American Handgunner until just a few years ago, and I still consider it one of the best shooting magazines available. I finally dropped it simply because it was so repetitive.
Rifle and Handloader were very good, but in my opinion that was almost entirely because of John Barsness and Ross Seyfried. As much as I enjoy Barsness, he isn't enough to make up for Scovill, so when Seyfried left I dropped both subscriptions. I actually consider Seyfried in the same class as Keith and Skeeter in that he is tremendously experienced and knowledgeable and can also be an entertaining writer. He is not for everyone, but is one of the few men who seems to write the truth as he sees it and has the experience to back it up. That may be why apparently no one will hire him to write about guns any more.
I subscribed to American Handgunner until just a few years ago, and I still consider it one of the best shooting magazines available. I finally dropped it simply because it was so repetitive.
Rifle and Handloader were very good, but in my opinion that was almost entirely because of John Barsness and Ross Seyfried. As much as I enjoy Barsness, he isn't enough to make up for Scovill, so when Seyfried left I dropped both subscriptions. I actually consider Seyfried in the same class as Keith and Skeeter in that he is tremendously experienced and knowledgeable and can also be an entertaining writer. He is not for everyone, but is one of the few men who seems to write the truth as he sees it and has the experience to back it up. That may be why apparently no one will hire him to write about guns any more.
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