I picked up an issue of Recoil yesterday. Never read it before but I’m sure I’ve read news linked to them in the past.
There is a breathless puff piece on SIG written by a “Candice Horner”. A check of the front material shows her listed as “Editor/Online”.
Questions:
Yeah on Daniel Horner’s website he mentions his family, and the name Candice shows up. So my guess is that yes Candice Horner is also Mrs. Daniel Horner.
Pretty shoddy journalism and ethics it seems, without a disclosure.
I just noticed there’s a profile on him in the same issue. Not written by her, but still no mention of the fact that “Daniel Horner is the husband of Recoil Editor Candice Horner”
Recoil is the USA Today of the gun world.
Lots of cool pictures, but the articles can be… lacking.
I wonder where they got those cool pictures. 
You guys really actually care that much? Its not that surprising.
Nailed it. It had a good start but…
I’ll just stick with Handloader, about the only gun rag that still runs informative articles that I can find on magazine racks.
I care about lack of journalistic ethics when it relates to government contractors and former service members with conflicts of interest.
The entire magazine is puff, that is when they aren’t being anti gun. They once did a thing on the MP7 and talked about how it is too dangerous for ordinary civilians to own it.
Most gun rags have free guns shipped to them and they write glowing reviews so that manufacturers keep shipping them free guns. Have you ever read a negative review of anything in Guns and Ammo, American Rifleman or whatever? Even “Gun Tests” was run by retards and the entire point was unbiased reviews.
The days of guys like Peter Kokalis telling you the real deal about anything are long gone.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but she wrote an article about the company her husband works for?
That’s not sitting as judge on a murder trial for her husband.
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That was years ago and I think (?) they fired that dude. I’m not s huge fan of the magazine but sometimes I feel like people are just searching for a reason to bitch.
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Recoil magazine has always clearly been just a slick marketing rag. It’s not exactly the Wall Street Journal of the firearms industry.
Reading “Recoil” expecting serious journalism is a bit like watching IV8888 and being upset because they’re never critical of any of the guns they “review.”
Context is everything. I don’t read or watch stuff that’s obviously intended as marketing and/or entertainment expecting serious journalism, and so I’m not disappointed when it turns out to be mostly marketing and entertainment…
I mosly stopped reading gun magazines awhile ago. At best I’ll flip through the ones on the rack in the supermarket while waiting for my GF.
I used to buy a ton of them though. I kinda miss the early 2000s when between college classes I’d park my old Jeep in a shady spot in a parking lot and settle in with a root beer and a crappy seafood salad sandwich from the gas station and a brand new issue of “Guns and Weapons for Law Enforcement.”. Those were the days…
Let me try and help you understand where I’m at.
I have almost zero emotion invested in Recoil magazine, so even when they pull a stunt like that ONE TIME they can mostly FO as far as I’m concerned, the EDITOR should have never let something like that go to print. I don’t blame the writer, I blame the editor.
But again, most gun magazines are a joke, so I have very little invested in this. They stopped being meaningful and relevant decades ago.
Yep. A fully automatic .17 HMR is nothing I want in my neighborhood. Somebody might put their eye out.
To ever think a gun magazine would run an honest story is like thinking the msm does the same.
Gun magazine articles are fun adds.
Sig could never get a good review on a product that wasn’t paid for one way or another. Be it sponsorship or free guns.
I remember Small Arms Review. Bartocci and Kokalis articles.
Now it’s either fudd crap or tactical mall ninja crap.
In the 90s Clint Smith had some good articles and EVERYONE had 1911 fever because of the ban. And that Japanese dude did epic photography before photoshop. All film.
IIRC he even did Tokyo Marui pictures.
Before the internet, books had to have at least some integrity. But there was still goofy stuff like a “scout rifle”. Maybe an idea in the 40s but a scoped AR carbine does all that and more.
I remember they did a whole to-do on the XM8 and looking back…they were kinda on crack. They had interesting ideas (a nascent keymod/mlok) but a rocker mag, repurposed G36? Really? Really?!
In my youth I thought G36s were futuristic death guns from hell until I shot one. The built in optic will give you myopia, the trigger is arguably worse than an M16 military trigger, and the stock is pure AIDS.
Recoil is nothing more than Guns N Ammo with fancy paper and no 80 year old Fudds like Dick Metcalf and his teacup grip.
Yeah, pretty much all of that.
SAR was the last reputable magazine that would actually say a gun sucks if it sucks and they actually knew a LOT about gun, gun laws, etc. But even then I read the stories mostly for gun personalities of the past, like the guy who owned Golden State Arms Division in CA and brought in tons of early military firearms including the 1962 HK G3 semi autos.
And yeah, the XM8 and the G11 were both the wonder guns of the future. When I did a SL8 to G36k conversion I couldn’t believe how badly it sucked. It was worse than any AR-180. Couldn’t believe Hendsolt actually made that shitty dual optic red dot.