Trad. Muzzleloading magazine?

[whitetrash078]

Is there any dedicated traditional muzzleloading magazine being produced anywhere? Me thinks if there isn't one, a person who published one would find a ready audience. Heck even an e-zine would be a good start. Even if it were only quarterly I would be willing to give up some of my hard earned money to buy it.

Few, if any hunting/shooting magazines speak to me anymore. I would sure like to read about people who use PRBs, flinters or perc. lock, and real BP to hunt and target shoot with. I don't care about Jim Shockey killing another world record animal with a da#n inline.

When was the last time anyone saw a gun review with a flintlock being featured?

I know this is wishful thinking on my part, but I feel if something like this were produced people who use traditional muzzleloaders would have more of a voice and more public exposure, thus more people would learn what we are all about. Perhaps some would convert and join our ranks.

Before I stumbled upon traditional archery type magazines I thought everyone used a compound bow and carbon arrows.

Any thoughts? :hmm:

 

[No Deer]

Muzzleloader Magazine is dedicated to pre 1840 firearms. They do not run articles or advertising about inlines.
[url] www.muzzleloadermag.com[/url]

 

[Halftail]

I had a subscription to that magazine probably close to 10 years ago.Scurlock told me that it was a Nuisence sending it to Canada.I never re-newed. :shake:

 

[blacksmithshoppe]

I think if Bill Scurlock the publisher of Muzzleloader Magazine had a little more competition he would be a little more accommodating. You may try the magazine again as I think things have changed a little in mailing, but if your like me once you made me mad that it.
Jeff

 

[LRB]

"On The Trail" is a very good magazine for pre-1840, although it is most concerned with living history, clothing and equipment. In each issue are articles for the longhunter, women, mountain men, and occasionally pre 18th c. NO inline articles, or adds!

 

[jtmattison]

Muzzleloader magazine
Blackpowder Hunting magazine
Black Powder guns & Hunting magazine
Muzzle Blasts magazine
Backwoodsman magazine (covers primitive stuff accross the board)

I know there are more.

HD

 

[Claude Mathis]

Heck even an e-zine would be a good start.

We will be adding regularly scheduled Podcasts, Audio Interviews and Articles to the Forum shortly. It's the first step toward bigger and better things. :thumbsup:

 

[CoyoteJoe]

Sounds good Claude, hope "soon" becomes "sooner".

 

[faw3]

It's the first step toward bigger and better things. Like a for sale/buy section maybe??? Fred :hatsoff:

 

[Russianblood]

Muzzleloader magazine
Blackpowder Hunting magazine
Black Powder guns & Hunting magazine
Muzzle Blasts magazine
Backwoodsman magazine (covers primitive stuff accross the board)

I know there are more.

HD

I would avoid Black Powder Hunting unless you want to hear about the lastest animal that died with a 200 yd shot from the lastest inline and copper jacketed bullet that hit the market.

 

[Greenmtnboy]

man I read muzzleloading mag and love it!!
I get muzzleblast because I am a NMLRA member and am pritty happy with it but for a traditionalist it lacks a bit.
I would dig a mag centered on primitive only!! hunting and shooting.
:hatsoff:

 

[Griz]

how about on the trail magazine.[url] http://www.ottmagazine.com[/url]/

 

[XXX]

I know exactly what you mean. I enjoy Muzzleloader for several reasons, the artwork, history, and the like. But when it comes to hunting, the "Game Trail" column is the only regular feature. It seems that the living history/re-enactment content is about 80% and the hunting content is about 5%. I would much prefer those numbers be reversed. I have enjoyed Traditional Bowhunter for several years also, but they are strictly an archery magazine. My ideal would be a "Primitive Hunting" magazine that has at its core hunting stories and articles about flintlocks, longbows, caplocks, recurves, and primitive self bows. The round-out content could entertain rendezvous, re-enactment, and historical interest, and,( God help us) political interest etc. I Have thought about starting such a publication myself, but it has occured to me that there may already be a saturated market for this subject matter given the existing publications

 

[whitetrash078]

To all, thank you! I had no idea there was this much stuff out there! :hatsoff:

 

[SavageArcher]

Muzzleloader magazine
Blackpowder Hunting magazine
Black Powder guns & Hunting magazine
Muzzle Blasts magazine
Backwoodsman magazine (covers primitive stuff accross the board)

I know there are more.

HD

I would avoid Black Powder Hunting unless you want to hear about the lastest animal that died with a 200 yd shot from the lastest inline and copper jacketed bullet that hit the market.

Black Powder Hunting runs a pretty close to 50/50 mix between tradition and inline. To me it seemed to favor the traditional a little more, but mainly because most of the staff are old timers. I'm willing to share with the inline crowd as long as the hunting stories are good.

 

[Jumpshot]

What happened to Buckskinner?

 

[Zonie]

It died.

 

[faw3]

Hey Zonie maybe you can ck this out for us, I read back maybe 10 yrs ago in a sports car mag that was going under that they had to have about 30,000 readers to break even (with some % for ads) 30,000 trad hunters mag sounds like a high mark to hit, you got anyway to ck that? Thanks if ya can or cant. Fred :hatsoff:

 

[Zonie]

I don't have any info about that but I do know that most magazines don't make any money on the subscriptions. It does little more than pay for the mailing and the printing costs.

The area where the money is made is in the ad's and it is hard to get the "big" companys to shell out a lot of money for ad's if the subscription numbers are low.

 

[Halftail]

Since I got into being "online" during my free time I no longer have much interest in Magazines.I do subscribe to Backwoodsman and that scratches my itch for a bit of everything.
I'd rather trad info with a real person than read some of the "stuff" that's published anyhow.