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Everything everyone has said is true but I still look forward to receiving the magazine and holding it in my hands and turning the pages. I feel like at $1.55 an issue it is still a decent buy.
 
Confederate said:
It's one reason I stopped reading gun magazines. I've never read one article that ripped a gun, and said it was inaccurate and constantly jammed. All the guns were specially supplied by the company and reviewers were given a special price in the event they wanted to keep the gun. It was a total conflict of interest that computer magazines have managed to avoid. I also got tired of all the glossy photos of guns the reviewers then painstakingly described as though we couldn't see the bloody thing. All the articles had the same style and there were never any articles about classic or out of production guns -- it was strictly geared to generate sales. Blade gave me the same impression, and I just don't need that.

Knife and gun books are much better, I think.
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Dido! I can't tell you how many times Guns and Ammo and even NRA publications have led me to firearms that did not work out. I know I bought several handguns after reading those mags and often times the articles were not correct or typical of what you get. I recall the Seecamp articles and now that I have one I can think of several things anyone buying one of those should be fully aware of yet none of it was mentioned at all in the article. One being that you sure better not dry fire it without the magazine in the thing or it pops like a cheap kids toy and is unusable. Funny how that was never brought up huh?

I do recall some that panned out for me though with Tac knives as well as others but even Tac knives, much as I enjoy it is guilty of some hype IMO. One that worked out was the article on the 5.11 knives and the Investigator which as it turned out was one that flew below my radar and when I took the chance that someone was telling me a true take on it and not hype it turned out to be a very accurate article where I agree 100% with the writer. The Investigator is a great folder for the money. I do not agree with some other recent stuff though regarding another cheap brand that has been getting lots of attention in Tac knives as of late. I'll leave that name out of it. Most of you probably know anyways.

There is some conflicting of interests there for sure with all the magazines be they about knives or not I think. Its hard for that to be avoided when money and goods for advertisements pay for the publications.

STR
 
I just bought my first Blade magazine yesterday .. Hope I am not disappointed .. But I havent read them before, so maybe I will like the content .. Who knows
 
I enjoy Blade magazine, though it suffers from many of the problems that other magazines do. I don't think it's any worse than any other magazine. I find the quality of articles to be relatively high.
 
I think circulation is down for all the print media and so it advertising revenue. I don't read the knife magazines very often, but they are mostly like the gun magazines "I picked up the Whizbang, used it for a couple of days and procliam it super duper, please see ad for Whizbang on next page"

The knife ones are usually worse than the gun stuff "I loaned my knife to an undercover police officer friend of mine for a night" "I took the knife with me camping last weekend and used it to chop up rotted logs because I collect lizards" "I cut up a few cardboard boxes with it" Ridiculous
 
Blade and Tactical Knives both tend to run an praising article and advertisements for the same knife right on the same or very near pages.
They never act like any advertisers knife is not first rate, never anything negative. When I read them in the store they are both filled with a lot of stuff I'd never buy anyway, so they get left on the rack.
Another thing I don't believe half of those stories in the back of Tactical Knives about how somebody saved the day with their knife. Sure it happens, but a lot of that reads like fiction, IMO.
 
More of a Tactical Knives mag guy.

And Mags need Advertisments to stay in biusness. Knives arent't exactly the hottest thing around.
 
Confederate said:
It's one reason I stopped reading gun magazines. I've never read one article that ripped a gun, and said it was inaccurate and constantly jammed. All the guns were specially supplied by the company and reviewers were given a special price in the event they wanted to keep the gun. It was a total conflict of interest that computer magazines have managed to avoid. I also got tired of all the glossy photos of guns the reviewers then painstakingly described as though we couldn't see the bloody thing. All the articles had the same style and there were never any articles about classic or out of production guns -- it was strictly geared to generate sales. Blade gave me the same impression, and I just don't need that.
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I'm an avid motorcyclist (Yamaha R1) and the same can be said for most US based motorcycle magazines. The bikes that they test have been gone over with a fine tooth comb by the manufacturers, unlike the ones you see on the dealer's showroom floors. However, the bike mags published in the UK call a spade a spade and don't pull any punches when reviewing bikes/gear. If something isn't worth the $$$, they'll say so without feeling pressure to suck up to the bike manufacturers, i.e. advertising revenue.
 
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