For the most part i will agree with you. But G&G is a mag i hold in much higher esteem then most others. Given they are also not packaged(that im aware of anyway) with a SSAA membership etc they are reliant on people buying them to keep the readership levels up. If people stop buying it, advertising revenue goes down, they lose money, publishing company pulls it.jeffk wrote:I doubt the magazine would give a shit, because their advertising revenue will be worth more than one miffed customer. That's why I gave up on the shooting (and 4WD and pretty much everything else) press a long time ago. Far too much sucking up to the advertisers and no real honesty to the reviews...either that, or reviewers have very different standards to me.Con wrote:chris thomas,
Why don't you email them regarding the review? If there reviews drop into the 'pleasing the supplier' category then they will drop from being a premier magazine to just another expensive quarterly catalogue.
On the plus side ... it outshot the Sako also tested.
In saying that the SSAA mags cop a bit of a flogging online, but since taking up shooting i have actually learned quite a bit from them. I think you need to read between the lines on some of the articles/reviews, but overall they pass the time in the crapper nicely.
It is a shame about the VSSF, for a looong time i was looking at getting one of the "Originals" but went with a ruger instead as it fit the budget a bit better. I can only hope people enough people out there are aware they can get an sps, Sell the crap off it and end up with a semi custom that will be much nicer for similar money.
IE new Stainless SPS are about 1300 now i think
sell the barrel and stock say 200 recovered (prob more but these are just rough figures)
end up with it costing $1100
Have Shane fit a fit a new Lilja barrel $900 roughly
That gives 600 odd for a new stock and action true.
Someone can correct me as im sure im wrong but i think one of Geoff Slee's "roo specials" is about 270 odd?
finish it yourself and for the same price as the VSSF you end up with something a bit more special, and no doubt more accurate