P7M8, or, "Don't Believe Everything You Read"

I failed to renew my Handguns subscription after an issue that confused blow back and recoil operated in two seperate articles.

I tend to like Guns and American Handgunner. At least the photos are all good and in color. Seems like what a magazine should be like.

Gunworld, Weapon of LE and Swat are OK too, but the last two are really cheaply printed.

Soldier of Fortune does a pretty good job with gun reviews, but I feel like a cretin just flipping through it on the newsstand.
 
Recycled (long)

I have posted this once before, but will recycle; after all, everyone does it.

[This was sent real magazine (not named Pistolero) with a note saying that it explained why the writer would not renew his subscription. No reply has ever been received.]
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It was this way, Pete...

Like you probably know already, I read Pistolero magazine and really think it is the greatest, so I try to follow all the good advice they give on combat shooting. They have a lot of real experts who really know their sh... I mean, stuff, let me tell you.

Well I got all the equipment those guys say you need to be a great combat shooter, and I practiced a lot, then I got a concealed weapons license, and I felt ready to take on the world.

Maybe you don't think much of that, I mean the business you're in. Oh, you say you used to carry concealed yourself? I guess I remember reading about that - your boss really didn't care for the idea, did he? But I guess that is another story.

Anyway, one day - or rather evening - I was downtown in the city, and I see this young guy coming along and he looked like one of those punks, I mean really bad, and he walked up to me, or really sort of swaggered, like they do, and said, "Give it up man, all of it." Well he didn't even have a weapon showing, but I could see the bulge in his jacket, so I knew he was armed, so I did all the things I read about in Pistolero about combat shooting.

First, I put on my custom shooting glasses ($300 from See-em, Inc., Blotz, GA) and then my custom fitted ear protectors with the smart circuitry that blocks the sound of shots but lets you hear a pin drop at 200 yards ($500 from Muff-em, Inc., Klotz, NM). Then I pulled down my Pistolero cap with the gold braid. Then I had a problem because I didn't know whether to use an isosceles stance or a Weaver stance. Finally, I decided on the isosceles stance, and assumed a perfect position.

Then I drew my custom super accurized .45 ($6000 from Slick-em, Inc., Flotz, AZ) from its custom made, perfectly fitted holster ($700 from Draw-em, Glotz, IL). And I took a perfect two-hand hold, facing the punk squarely, and got ready to fire.

One handed? No, I never heard of shooting a handgun with one hand - I never saw anyone in Pistolero do that! Standing? Of course, I was standing, and right out in the open, too. I could have maybe ducked behind a car or a building, or even dodged to one side, but that wouldn't be macho and in Pistolero, no one ever takes cover. Pistolero readers aren't cowards, no sir!

Well, to make a long story short, the punk pulled out a cheap, chrome-plated Yorkin .380 ($39.95 from Throw-up, Inc., Plotz, CA) and put three slugs in my head, and so, here I am. And he didn't even use the proper stance! I guess he doesn't read Pistolero, because he didn't play by the rules and you just can't respect that kind of guy, no way!

But I don't know what I did wrong, Pete. I followed every rule I saw in Pistolero about combat shooting. I just don't understand.

You say that maybe I was a little too eager to get in a shootout, but defending yourself is OK? So I can go in now? Thanks a lot, Pete, I mean Saint Pete.

By the way, is there a combat range up here? And can I get Pistolero forwarded? It's really a great magazine.
 
I've decided to become a gun writer. To keep up with the constant "pressure of deadlines" they are always blaming for rush evaluations I will be implementing a device of my own invention: computer assisted writing. The patented computer program will randomly select trite statments from a vast pool of old articles and concatenate them together for an article of specific word count. Meaningless tables and rehashed photos from five years ago will also be available as space fillers. I wouldn't have to ever actually work again. I could just set up the machine to generate and fax the articles into the editors. Boundless wealth awaits. Watch-Six
 
I work at a gun store

Any time some one comes through the door with a Magazine in their hands we know its going to be trouble.
Our theory is ANY BODY can get a good article written about their product. I bet if you searched long and hard you could find a favorable article about a Jennings.
 
So, you say there's an article about the P7 that isn't quite 100% correct, isn't accurate, and doesen't jive with what the real deal is actually like. Hmmm... Sounds great to me! From my warped perspective, the less unknowing people know about my pride and joy, #1, goto when the stuff is knee high THE BETTER! Keep the mis-information comming!
 
Cobraman,

I work at a gun store
Any time some one comes through the door with a Magazine in their hands we know its going to be trouble.
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Tell me about it.

I've often said that a quick glance at the magazine rack at the store can tell us which guns a few of our customers will just have to have this month...
 
Hank B,

I was not aware there was a real magazine by that name, and my apologies to them; I didn't want to use the real name for obvious reasons, though some of you folks may have figured it out.

Jim
 
I am a gun writer at this magazine: :)
http://www.kaliber.hu/kaliber/archiv.html

I agree with the others that many gun magazines are pretty sh*tty these days. I canceled my G&A, Combat Handguns, and Handguns subscription because of the constant uninteresting articles (mostly on nearly identical 1911 pistols) and other articles which stank from the sponsor's money.

The only US gunrags I read now is the G&WfLE, the American Handgunner, and the occasional Surplus Firearms. If you guys can read german try "Visier" or "Deutsche Waffen Journal".

The free issue of the SWAT looks interesting,I will have a look on that. What's your opinion on Small Arms Review?
 
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