gun world trashes the Sig P225

Gun world is owned by the sick puke Larry Flint. Consider the source. A good editor is there to assure sales versus accuracy? Exactly why those of us with one sixteenth of a brain left don't even thumb a gun rag at the grocery store much less buy one.
 
I love my Sig 239 40cal...and if I had the money and a Sig 225 would be available..I'd get it in a heartbeat...he's a butthead.
But that's just my opinion:D
 
IMO, the only problem with lips is that Mr. Thomas has a set that won't stop moving. I got really fed up with his monthly "this is the best gun in the universe" articles, where you could be assured that whatever he was hawking that month was his latest free toy. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if Jennings sent him a .25 how great they would suddenly become.
Between him and Libourel trying to tell folks that a Colt SAA is just not a very accurate pistol-well, maybe not in his hands, but I've shot a few and never met one I couldn't hit with. Only thing stopping me from buying one is that I don't want to take out a bank loan to get it!
Don't get me wrong-a bit of controversy is a healthy thing, such as O'Connor and Mr. "Hell, I was there". Both of them were right at times, but even Col. Cooper was caught slamming the 45 back in the sixties, what with its "death trap" grip safety and whatnot. He's now the "expert" on the 1911.
Used to be a liberal was someone you may not have agreed with, but you could understand their position. All I do now is give them the cock-eyed dog look, trying to figure if they ever did say anything! The latest generation of gunwriters really gives me the raging case of the hershey squirts. The last one I really liked is gone, and we are less fortunate for not having Bob Milek around.
 
I quit subscribing to Handguns magazine, to a large extent because so much of Duane Thomas' articles were printed there.

Libourel, the editor, moved to Gun World, and has apparently taken Duane with him, as that magazine is now infested with more of Duane Thomas.

He considers himself God's model pistolero, and makes that point in every article he writes. If he is half as good as he thinks he is, he is very good indeed.

I may have to let my subscription to Gun World run out, too...

(Sigh)

And I like Jan Libourel...
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I agree with all the above. When I first read an article by Duane, he was claiming that a heavily customized 1911 was the creme de la creme. A few months later, anybody who didn't leave his 1911 bone stock was a fool. A few months after that, the SIG P228 was tops and the 1911 on its way out. And then a little while after that, the SIG was too bulky, and the Glock 19 was now tops. He even went so far as to write an article completely trashing the 1911. In fact, he wrote several about how antiquated and unreliable they are, and that anybody who believes in the .45's stopping power over a 9mm must also believe in fairies (his words!).

I actually met him once at a local range. To be honest I've met individuals who were a LOT more rude, but he asked to quickly borrow my binoculars and I let him. Pretty soon he was using them for himself and I had to get them back!

He is very good at aquiring knowledge and CAN write good articles, but unfortunately he's also a bit egotistic and it shows.
 
WEAKNESS IN THE GUNWRITING WORLD

We still have some good ones, but we have some serious hacks, too.

I get AH (and Front Sight, and whatever they call the NRA mag today). I used to get them all.....

I like Wiley Clapp, and Taffin, and Lawson and Hamilton and Ayoob and James and Petty and some others.......but I miss Ross Seyfried and Elmer Keith and Nonte and the old days when velocity and accuracy (not the 10-15 yd kind) were tested with each gun.
 
I too dropped Handguns magazine because of the incessant drivel from this writer/hack.

He exemplifies the definition of prostitute, sucking up to whoever is giving him cool stuff to play with for his articles. If he doesn't say it's the greatest thing, they won't send him more.

However, there are other writers who have had much more experience sucking up, playing flavor of the month, and are actually worse than Mr. Thomas.
 
Duane Thomas is a flake!! As was said above, he is like the wind. He chages direction everytime he puts pen to paper. I will not read his articles and find it very refreshing that he is no longer writng for Handguns Magazine, which I still hold a subscription. Anyone who quotes this guy as an expert, or even knowledgable needs to do some research. He is a ZERO!!!!:barf:
 
Larry Flint

Actually Flint published "Modern Gun" a rag that swirled down the porceline vortex years ago. GunWorld was owned by Jack Lewis who sold it and the current people have Japanese sounding names. The story about being owned by Larry Flint is sometimes applied to American Handgunner too.- generally by a competitor. AH was never owned by Flint. It's publisher did employ Hugh Hefner for a while. told him his cockeyed idea for a mens magazine would never get off the ground.

If Dwaine Thomas is even a little bit polite, he's light years ahead of some of the gws. Actually, I kind of enjoy his enthusiasm. He started out pure 1911 -probably because he's been to all the big name shooting schools around the country. He then seemed to gravitate toward Glocks. He can right a good article.

Several years ago, the SIG 220, 225 and 226 were all the rage. Part of this was because they were made in Germany and cost a lot of money. When the 229 came out, with its domestaic made monolythic slide, the prices started to drop and some of the Conspicuous Consumption glitter went away.
I never read a negative thing about the SIGS in any magazine review until very recently. A DPS instructor when asked why the department issued SIG 220s ( Now they have a .357 sig) his response was " Because its the best money can buy." I asked him if they ever had problems with the 220s and he said that occasionaly, the pins that heald the recoil plate in the stamped slide would break allowing the hardened part to fall out.

Later, after SIG pretty much swithed over to one piece forged slides we started hearing about the above problem in gun publications. When they reconfigured the magazines, we began reading about magazine failures in the earlier guns.

Often when you pick up a gun magazine and see the line. " The best, most reliable, strongest most accurate handgunn in history!!" , it was stuck in there by the editorial crew rather than the cringing and embarrassed writer.
 
Hello, Weshoot2! I figured I was the only one here old enough to remember George C. Nonte, Jr, Keith, et al. Nice to see another old guy! (Bhahahahahahahha) Happy New Year to all.

By the way, in my humble opinion, there's more to be learned from some folks on these boards than the magazines.

Best.
 
Let us not forget Col Askins, Skeeter Skelton, and if you are a rifle shooter Jack O'Connor. I have all the Gun Digests published back to the first edition in 1944, all the Shooters Bibles back to 1943, and a set of Gun's and Ammo mags from 1960 to 1968 and they are filled with the writings of classic gun writers.
 
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