Muzzle loading magazine

[Marc Adamchek]

Ever since it came under new management the magazine has gotten a fantastic overhaul.

I ALWAYS enjoyed the magazine and thought Scurlock Publishing did a great job. All the past issues bound in my library all the way back to 1990 are testament to that.

But when the "new guys" took over, the paper stock improved 100%, the addition of color was a much needed improvement and the articles are every bit as good as before.

I do Miss Mark Baker and Rex Norman (who seems to be mia a long time now)but Mark Sage and the others are doing a very entertaining and credible job.

One constant from the early days all through the many years is Tony Hunter. This man NEVER gets the proper admiration and respect he should; he DESERVES it. His research is intensive and scholarly and his writing is very good.

So subscribe to the magazine already!!! You'd have to be a tactical AR 15 Rambo to not completely fall in love with it. It is WORD, brutha! You ain't gonna find a better regularly published magazine on the subjects near and dear to your heart that brought you here. The only bad thing is you have to wait every 2 months but there's always enough to stretch out until the next issue.

And as someone mentioned, join the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association - it's your duty! - and you'll get their publication "Muzzle Blasts" sent to you every month. It's a good little mag to fill in the time between Muzzleloader.

Get off your arse!

 

[armedOkie]

I couldn't possibly say enough good about Muzzleloader Magazine. You can get it at Barnes and Noble as well.

The only thing I'd change is making it once per month.

edit: also check out backwoodsman magazine if you don't already get that one. You owe it to yourself to get both.

 

[jamesthomas]

Our local Tractor Supply(TSC) carries them. You might want to check one near you.

I'm going to have to check that out!, I haven't read a good Muzzleloader Magazine in a long time.

 

[Alden]

Buy any two years of Muzzle Loader and you have them all, mostly. Same with most gunzines.

Now, if they're publishing poems they didn't even read because they clearly don't even rhyme properly it shows you how hard-up an already hard-up magazine with weak editors has become for filler.

If you subscribe might not wanna pay for more than a year at a time...

 

[jamesthomas]

I just plan to buy them at the store, that way My E-mail won't be loaded with offers to renew. I joined the NMLRA to see how the Magazine was, after a year I didn't renew, too much stuff about Friendship and Dixons etc. The last mag. sealed it for me when I read about the guy using a piece of tubing (that he had lying around the shop) and had it contoured for a fowler barrel that had an enormous amount of inlays and stuff :shake: . It seemed to me the magazine was for about 100 Freds sort of like a "hey Fred what are you doing this weekend" for about a 100 people. The rest of us just happened to give them money.

 

[spudnut]

wish Dixie gun works still did their annual

 

[sooter76]

I stumbled across Muzzleloader magazine a couple weeks ago at a local Hastings book store. Never even heard of it before (granted I'm pretty new to the traditional muzzleloading game) but after one issue I'm subscribing.

 

[Katahdin]

Use to get Back woodsman and read it over and over..They have gotten off track in the past two issues,Treasure hunting the Atocha,Interviews with singers!!!!! don't get it anymore moved on.. Still get M/L just read it more,,,,

 

[Don]

Yeah, know what you mean about Backwoodsman. Seems like there are fewer firearms articles and more fluff pieces as you've mentioned. Being a cheapskate gun collector I always appreciated their articles about inexpensive guns both black powder and cartridge. I'll keep up my subscription for now but if they get way off their usual topics I'll let it lapse. I used to get Muzzleloader and enjoyed it but it seemed more geared to the flint shooter and buckskinner. Not that that isn't a good thing but my interests are a little more varied. Muzzleblasts is good to but I lost interest after awhile.

Don

 

[Loyalist Dave]

You guys don't understand the difference between Backwoodsman and Muzzleloader.

Backwoodsman is a submission magazine... they don't pay for articles, so they can only publish what folks want to give them. They don't do fact checking and they don't do much proof reading. They do have a list of article topics that the publisher is looking for, but no gauruntee of the quality of the article that comes in, nor the photos. I have read some very well thought out and presented articles, and some Gawd-Awful ones that (imho) bordered on bad fiction. Oh well, it a combination of modern/antique guns, DIY, and adventure. I buy it when it comes out as you never know what you're gonna get. :wink:

Muzzleloader on the other hand is a much more traditional model for a magazine. Articles are vetted and fact checked, and they require references (posted at the end of the articles). They seem to be well proof read, though sometimes the odd mistake slips past. Mr. Gatliff upped the quality when he went to better imagery and in color. It is much more centered in its topic scope and reader base.

I just renewed my subscription to Muzzleloader for two years.

LD

 

[Alden]

Muzzleloader on the other hand is a much more traditional model for a magazine. Articles are vetted and fact checked, and they require references (posted at the end of the articles). They seem to be well proof read, though sometimes the odd mistake slips past... LD

I think it's a vanity publication at this point what with Nesbitt apparently owning shares in TVM and their just reprinting as filler a cute but confused amateur poem they clearly just glossed over without correction (I'm presuming the editors got thru high school)...

 

[coloradoclyde]

They have nice cover art.
From what I have read on this forum there are several people who could/should be writing articles for them.

 

[armedOkie]

On a related note, last night going through wal-mart, I noticed this on the magazine shelf. Apparently put out by Country Decorating Ideas magazine. I leafed through it. Commercialized crap that isn't suited for fire starting material. Ew.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I've read that issue and the preceding one... mostly "fluf" pieces.

LD

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Wait... so one poem and the publication suddenly became a vanity rag? What does the ownership in TVM have to do with anything? :haha:

Jas. Townsend & Sons has their own YouTube "channel" which feature only Townsend products... that doesn't mean that some of the information Jas. Townsend & Sons provide in their videos (or you could call them long commercials) isn't correct or valid? So if the magazine or Mr. Nesbit talk about TVM rifles, that's suddenly bad since he owns a share? (It's not Consumer Reports or Cook's Illustrated)

How does the poem in the magazine invalidate the work published by other authors now, or in the future? :shake:

:hmm:

LD

 

[Alden]

The poem I speak of Dave is only a final symptom that itself speaks to the desparation, and lack of professionalism, of the editors and staff at the magazine. I'm exagerating now but my kid's finger-painting shouldn't come off the fridge and appear in Muzzleloader no matter how good I and the other kids think it is.

And I know you are being sarcastic re: the odd but obvious bias of a/the writer/writers there.

And then there's "author or copy an article, modify it, wait two years, repeat."

And if Townshend wants to play The 18th C. Galloping Gourmet on YouTube, what does that have to do with the price of tea in Boston?

 

[blackpowderscout]

I have many,many issues of Muzzleloader going back to the 80's. The latest issues since Jason Gatliff took over is a whole 'nother level of magazine compared to the previous issues. I have lots of love for the Scurlocks and have given my share of $$ to buy their books. Jason has taken it up a notch. Period.

 

[coloradoclyde]

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[jamesthomas]

That's sad, also my Tractor Supply doesn't stock Muzzleloader Mag. :shake: . Also Mobile, Al. is getting a Gander Mountain Store, their sign says it will be open on Oct. the 28th. I hope its better than the Bass Pro, and Dicks Sporting goods store we have I know it can't be worse than them :barf: .

 

[Alden]

Yeah, all 8,623 other subscribers probably feel exactly the same way. Actually, you don't subscribe anymore either... Amazing, 172 people per state!

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