What outdoor, survival, bushcraft, or primitive skills publications do you like?

Marion David Poff

Marion David Poff

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I have been thinking of this the last couple days.... So, I thought I would enlist the combined brain power of all you folks....

What all good outdoor, survival, bushcraft, or primitive skills publications are out there?

I think there is a new one that just recently started?

Thanks,
Marion
 
I'm very interested in this discussion as well - especially books with a lot of carving and ropework skills in them.


About the closest I have come is the Ashley Book of Knots. Gotta love the classics.
 
Marion David Poff said:
I have been thinking of this the last couple days.... So, I thought I would enlist the combined brain power of all you folks....

What all good outdoor, survival, bushcraft, or primitive skills publications are out there?

I think there is a new one that just recently started?

Thanks,
Marion
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Do you mean books or magazines? When you say a new one just started im assuming glossy magazines?
 
Backwoodsman, Wilderness Way, Primitive Archer, Bulletin of Primitive Technology, Tactical Knives, Fur Fish and Game.

Doc
 
Backwoodsman and Wilderness Way. Tactical Knives has moved away from wilderness themed blades, towards tactical themed blades. I know that the magazine is called Tactical Knives, but the authors would actually perform, or say they performed, wilderness themed activities. I like some of the articles in Fur Fish and Game, but don't get it that often. Bulletin of Primitive Technology and Survival Quarterly sound interesting.

I always see back issues of Knife World, Blade, Tactical Knives, Knives Illustrated, Guns and Ammo, Handgun magazine etc available at gun and knife shows. I've never ever seen back issues of Backwoodsman available. Anywhere. Seen old issues of outdoors themed magazines, gun and knife magazines, at flea markets, farmers markets etc. No Backwoodsman. No one gets rid of these magazines.
 
DOC-CANADA said:
Backwoodsman, Wilderness Way, Primitive Archer, Bulletin of Primitive Technology, Tactical Knives, Fur Fish and Game.

Doc
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other than the bulletin for Primitive Technology.. those are all the same ones i read/buy..:thumbup:
 
The word is there is a new one on the way very soon called New Pioneer. Don't really know much more about it than the name right now.
 
I have subscriptions to Outside and National Geographic, mostly just for the photography and ideas for my ever-growing travel list.
 
Wilderness Way and Backwoodsman are my favorites. I want to check out the mag that Ron Hood puts out too.
 
I can't stand bad writing, so I tend to go for the big name magazines like Nat Geo, Outside, Nat Geo Adventure (Explorer? I forget), and Backpacker. Those mags all have top notch photography as well, which is a huge draw for me. I can't seem to force myself to read through a knife magazine article (except Mr. Flowers' articles, of course), but I'll read through those mags from cover to cover every issue. All of them except Backpacker, anyway. They tend to make more reference style magazines than the rest, which is annoying.
 
DOC-CANADA said:
hey CP, never heard of it. Any details?

Doc
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Here's a link to his forum talking a bit about it.

SQ forum

The best analogy I can give, is the magazine is a lot like Wilderness Way, but it doesn't focus solely on primitive technology. There's a little bit of everything survival related, and at least for the first several, they are going to be generally themed like his Woodsmaster videos.

IMO, quality wise it's right up there with Wilderness Way, better overall quality than Backwoodsman, and the content is extremely good, and different enough from WW and BW that it's worth getting.
 
Outdoorsman is the only one that really catches me these days.

I sure do miss the old American Survival Guide , best survival , outdoors mag ever IMO.


Tostig
 
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