The Gun Counter

Any opinions on whether the mag is worth the price?

I used to get it a few years back. Pretty good info, but some of their reviews seemed off base to me (based on seeing or owning the make/model they were talking about). The good thing was that they were not afraid to speak ill of a gun (unlike G&A) because they did not have advertisers to keep happy.

They test off-the-shelf stuff, and if something sucks, they'll tell you it sucks. No kissing up to advertisers.

The flip side is that some of the evaluation is subjective, and you know what they say about opinions.

It's a decent mag. The thing I don't like is their tendency to evaluate whatever they have handy...apples to oranges comparisons are frequent.

I have a subscription, and I don't regret it. The honesty is refreshing.

SA

Like everything in the gun world, take their opinions with a grain of salt, especially when they go apples to oranges or use something outside of it's intended use. I had a subscription years ago. They reviewed the Speedfeed shotgun stock. It's set up for right-handers, with the shotshell feeding doohickey on the top right of the stock. They overall liked it, but they had a lefty shoot it, and of course he got a weird bruise on his left cheek, and dinged it for that.

Their sister publication, Practical Sailor, is a great magazine. I had a Gun Tests subscription, and let it lapse -- their testing isn't anything you can't find on the enet, and seems to just consist, mostly, of their opinion.

Aglifter wrote:I had a Gun Tests subscription, and let it lapse -- their testing isn't anything you can't find on the enet, and seems to just consist, mostly, of their opinion.

Likewise. One I remember in preticular was their review of the Saiga-12. Whoever stripped the thing prior to the test didn't latch the top cover correctly, and it came off when they first shot it. End of test, end of discussion, "do not buy" rating.

I liked it, but it wasn't worth the cost because I can't ever afford guns.

Realistically not a bad rag.

They were the first to "publish" the .40 caliber polygonal rifling/lead bullet problem with testing in which they went and blew up a second G-22(23?) to prove what had happened. I must dig up that issue.

I dropped my subscription because of all the apples to oranges comparisons. They put a $100 gun against a $1000 one and pick apart the differences.
Either match the price or quality and go from there or the opinion isn't realistically valid.