I haven't written anything for DGJ in quite a few years. That being said, I don't recall any serious copy goofs on their part. But those do happen, because the articles don't go directly from your paper or electronic submissions to the pages on which they appear, whether it be DGJ or any other publication. So it might have been something Archer overlooked, or it might have happened on the DGJ end. In another publication, I recently had an 11/16 oz .410 load come out as a 1 1/16 oz load. I checked what I submitted, and that one happened on their end, which is not at all typical.
Re payment, if I recall correctly, the last time they published something I wrote, Dan asked me what I wanted for it. I told him and received a check before it appeared--which, as Pete indicated, is not the way it has always worked. But writing in DGJ, you are definitely putting your article on Foxes or whatever under the scrutiny of more people who are Fox experts than is the case in any other publication for which you might write.
