Editor Iain Harrison Frequency bi-monthly Year founded 2012 (2012) | Former editors Jerry Tsai Circulation 250,000 | |
Company TEN: The Enthusiast Network | ||
RECOIL is a magazine dedicated to handguns, tactical rifles, tactical knives and other shooting-related activities in the United States. It claims to cater to the "Firearms Lifestyle".
The magazine primarily offers reviews on firearms, ammunition, knives, and shooting gear; as well as gunsmithing tips, historical articles, gun collecting, self-defense and automobiles. In addition to those departments, each issue contains a few featured articles and personality profiles of people in the firearms industry as well as press releases of new products. Each issue includes a fold-out target.
Susannah Breslin of Forbes wrote that,"RECOIL is more Maxim than your dad's Guns & Ammo with regard to the magazine's photography and subject matter. RECOIL debuted in January 2012 as a quarterly magazine and by December 2012 became bi-monthly.
Iain Harrison took command as editor in January 2013.
In 2015 RECOIL won “Best Outdoor Sports & Recreation Magazine” at the 64th Annual Western Publishing Association "Maggie Awards" for its July issue.