I just found this site yesterday, and I am not sure if there is a thread on this topic, but I just wanted to say some nice things about "The Backwoodsman" magazine.
I find it to be an excellent and entertaining read and many of the articles are useful to people like myself who are
•Tight with a buck
•Interested in the wilderness and survival.
It seems to be well distributed where I live, and I can usually find it at Wal Mart, Books a Million in the nearby town or at small bookstores in the region. That is when they don't sell out early.
Traditional Bowhunting and Primitive Archer are other magazines I enjoy for similar reasons of basic interest in outdoors skills and primitive living.
If you have never tried these magazines, I urge you to check them out.
wow, great book and with the skills in it it is possible to survive with say 15 pounds of items. it is great and i wish i had a subscription but i don't. occation i do buy it at walmart and i love it. i would recommend it to everyone who was interest in learning some skills, including hunting, how to make a homeade derrenger thing was in there, boat plans are in there, stove building techniques i think, there was even an article to make your own lamp stands out of driftwood. it is great
For those not familiar with it, its not a "survivalism" magazine perse, but it has a LOT of useful articles in it that would appeal to survivalists, outdoorsmen and of course notorius tightwads like me.
The typical issue might have an article about .32 caliber handguns as small game getters, how the Japanese survived on those pacific islands after WWII, how to buy a used boat cheap, how to make a solar still to get water in the woods when you are not around a stream, how to make a knife out of an old file, how to make your own blackpowder rifle with simple shop tools, etc...
Its sort of a living off the grid- simplified living magazine and its full of more usefull information than any three typical gun magazines rolled into one when it comes to dissimenating USEFUL knowledge.
Most gun magazines are basically paid advertising for whatever is new, along with a nostalgia peice or two thrown in for us old timers.
Backwoodsman is not about trying to sell you new stuff so much as it is about helping you to get buy without having to buy stuff by making your own or finding it used cheap!
should be the first week in november, i think. they run jan/feb, march/april, may/june, july/aug, sep/oct, nov/dec. and would come out around that first week of the issue. but im not sure, sorry.
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Crap, I have missed the new issue.
Gotta bum a ride to Charleston now, LOL....
You know, just sitting in my old fashioned reading chair and reading an issue through the light of the window relieves a lot of daily stress for me. I can't explain it, it just does....
Read some articles yesterday from a recent issue about .32 caliber handguns and a modern possibilities bag, and two way radios.
Nothing puts a smile on my face like finding a copy....
Last edited by sunwheel29; 10-08-2008 at 09:20 AM.
