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Gun Tests delivers unbiased, on-target ratings and best buys of today’s firearms and shooting equipment for the gun enthusiasts. Gun Tests accepts no commercial advertising. It’s packed with honest and fair evaluations of handguns, rifles, shotguns, ammunition and shooting accessories.
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Gun Tests delivers unbiased, on-target ratings and best buys of today’s firearms and shooting equipment for the gun enthusiasts. Gun Tests accepts no commercial advertising. It’s packed with honest and fair evaluations of handguns, rifles, shotguns, ammunition and shooting accessories.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Quite good and also rather bad,
By Ted K "ATedK" (Virginia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gun Tests (Magazine)
I've subscribed several times and allowed my subscription to lapse each time... Why, well to be blunt; several of the testers (no names are given) are strongly biased. Biased and prejudiced to the point where they ignore their magazine's own rules of whether a gun is a "buy now" or "don't buy". These testers poison the valid and fair tests the other authors put firearms through. I have seen reviews where the tester resorted to extreme nit picking just to find a reason to declare a worthy firearm a "not buy", and ignore the substantial faults of a lesser firearm so they can declare it a "buy now". So every few years I resubscribe hoping the firearm bigots have moved on...
Now that this is understood, there is no other organization, publication or otherwise, that I know of, providing any even remotely similar function or service. These authors come across as normal people you'd meet at the range and for that matter reflect a very similar set of attitudes in their broad range of opinions and attitudes. (e.g. John loves anything that shoots, Joe over there loaves anything that shoots so long as it has Savage on the action, Theodore over there is the pickiest shooter I've ever met...). So Gun Tests has no, or almost none, of the platitudes so prevalent in the industry and as can be read in Gun Tests; not every gun is a great functional and accurate firearm. The testers buy their guns at local stores (instead of having them shipped to them or provided otherwise by the manufacturers) Some of the results and "brand new in the box" shopping experiences they uncover can be alarming and should receive national attention. So subscribe, grit your teeth when you run headlong into an author's prejudices, nod your head when a tester describes accurately something you've discovered yourself, read between the lines if necessary *even the biased reviews are worth reading) and learn the gritty truth behind many of our fine firearms. If I could've I would have given five stars to the magazine, but two stars to individual tester articles.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very Good Resource,
By BlueBerry "Cereal" (Salt Lake City) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gun Tests (Magazine)
Its more of a newsletter than a magazine - straight forward, black and white graphics, about 30 pages long and very well written. The only resource I've seen so far that doesn't love every gun it reviews like the more common gun magazines do. Probably something to do with the fact that its not beholden to advertisers. They review handguns, rifles, carbines, and just about anything else including some shooting equipment. Their reviews might seem harsh to some, but the high standards of most gun manufacturers deserves for great guns to be separated from firearms that are merely very good. I don't think they do regular features on the best used guns like Consumer Reports reviews used cars for potential problems and this would be very useful if they did. Gun Tests is essential reading material for anyone who is interested in becoming a more enlightened firearms consumer.
Edit: The pictures are in color now, they did this after I wrote the original review.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best serious gun review magazine on the market,
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This review is from: Gun Tests (Magazine)
No glossy photos. No hype. No quarry. No erectile-dysfunctional advertisements. This magazine is a serious, no nonsense review of the guns (handguns and long guns) new and used on the market. It's the only gun magazine that I keep all the back issues for reference.
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