What's you favorite hunting magazine ?

[300H&H]

So tell me...."WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE HUNTING MAGAZINE" ? There are some really awsome/terrible magazines out. My favorite right now is Kings Hunting Illustrated. It has great "western" content. In a close second we have a tie between Big Buck & Big Game Adventures. So...whats yours ?

[BCLongshot]

I get them all through subscription 'cause then it's cheap.

I'm thinkin' maybe Outdoor life but you know I don't think I could pick.

I don't have your fav yet but I'll look into it.:cool:

[FlyingHigh]

BC Outdoors Hunting and Shooting

[dana]

Muley Crazy hands down is the best. Eastmans Hunting Journal, Trophy Hunter and Big Buck follow in that order.

[steveo32]

I have to agree with dana and in the same order, just unbeleiveable content in all of those mags!!!!


steve

[dana]

Steve,
Cover shots this year man. Cover shots. :) :)

[mark]

big buck mag for me!

[BCrams]

Eastmans Hunting Journal definatly tops my list.

[swamper]

Big Buck, hands down. You don't get lost in all the advertising.

[3kills]

big buck and trophy hunter....

[huntwriter]

Most hunting magazines from Petersen's Hunting. Big Buck Magazine and a few others. Usually I read the cover and if there are articles that interest me I buy the magazine. But lately I do most of my reading on the internet to do research for articles on my three hunting blogs.

[Krico]

Eastman's Hunting Journal and BC Outdoors Hunting and Shooting. I just wish there were more issues of BCO.

[pupper]

I really enjoy the hunting illustrated, big buck, and bowhunters world.
texas trophy hunter mag is horrible unless you like advertisements of deer seamen and feeders.

[mainland hunter]

BC outdoors hunting and shooting(they need more than 1 issue a year, or is it 2) and next would be big game adventures

[Bigbuckadams]

Big Buck mag for me as well, the only drawback is it's quarterly, not monthly....Subscription price is great and not much advertising. Always looking forward to finding it in the ole mailbox:-P .

[Deaddog]

Big game adventures, they always have a good chunk of bc hunts as well as around the world stuff, on the down side they do feature "fenced" hunts which I choose not to read. I got away from bc outdoors when they went to fishing only mags, but from your comments I might have to rethink that stratedgy, How many hunting features are there a year??

[fester]

Big game adventures, they always have a good chunk of bc hunts as well as around the world stuff, on the down side they do feature "fenced" hunts which I choose not to read. I got away from bc outdoors when they went to fishing only mags, but from your comments I might have to rethink that stratedgy, How many hunting features are there a year??

Big Game adventures for me too. I don't really read mags and it is good lots of fantastic stories and beautiful pics.

[boxhitch]

Big Game Adventures. Good variety, no BS (detectable).
Dropped BC outdoors when they dropped Hunting.

[longbowbc]

Traditional Bowhunter and Big Buck

[mainland hunter]

why did bc outdoors drop hunting for the most part, i liked when they were a combo fishing hunting magazine

[bochunk2000]

I like Big game adventures. It seems to focus on the fun and excitement of the adventure.

[Gateholio]

I used to love Big Game Adventures until it became too much like a Cabelas catalogue!:smile:

I like Handloader the best of al the magazines, actually. Can't stand Big Buck, although i look at the pictures a bit.

BGA has good stories most of the time, and that's what I want to read. Not "Top 10 Strategies to nail your whitetail this year":smile:

[boxhitch]

why did bc outdoors drop hunting for the most part, i liked when they were a combo fishing hunting magazine
A reflection of the growing sentiment that hunting is bad. Smashing a fish in the head, spilling blood and guts, using fish to catch fish... thats all ok :-?

[kishman]

why did bc outdoors drop hunting for the most part, i liked when they were a combo fishing hunting magazine

For I while I think it split into 2 mags. hunting and fishing but I never see the hunting one on the shelf anymore. It's really a shame 'cause that's my problem with alot of these magazines is the lack of Canadian/B.C. content. I'm new to the sport and I really like the advice/how to stuff, I just find it's always geared toward yankee style hunts--fenced or private land. Big Buck is good but it's more stories than advice, not that you can't learn anything from stories, especially the "I'll never do that again" ones:wink: . I see a few names here I'm not familiar with though, so I'll check them out.

[wetcoaster]

I used to love Big Game Adventures until it became too much like a Cabelas catalogue!:smile:

I like Handloader the best of al the magazines, actually. Can't stand Big Buck, although i look at the pictures a bit.

BGA has good stories most of the time, and that's what I want to read. Not "Top 10 Strategies to nail your whitetail this year":smile:

Agreed on all points,

Can't stand the B.S. in big buck the magazine is so full of it I can actually smell it across the room. No offence but I think of it like the romance novel equivalent of the hunting world! I have never read hunter illustrated so will have to check it out I prefer the how to articles like many others and honest reviews of gear and guns.

For all the other hunters out there in the lower mainland, don't you hate it that you can never find a hunting mag on the shelves at your corner store, gas station etc. in town. Here in surrey I found a store a number of years back that carried them, as I was paying for it an anti that was behind me in line questioned the vendor as to why he would have that kind of content in his store suggesting he was unethical. I told her to fly to **** and mind her own business in a forcefull way and she shut up. I stayed after and asked the vendor how often he gets this crap and he told me at least once every couple of weeks. He is now out of business and I don't have a local place to buy hunting mags but little wonder if vendors recieve this kind of abuse.

[MichelD]

I think it was Jack O'Connor who wrote that outdoor writing was essentially re-writing the same three story ideas over and over again.

I can't remember the exact quote. If I find it, I'll post it.

I have to agree.

Except for the "How I shot my big (fill in your favourite game animal here) " stories, they all start to seem alike to me.

A buddy gave me a collection of Petersen's Hunting Annuals from the 1980s a few years back and I was just going through them again looking for things on waterfowling and chukar hunting I'd ignored before, and I think O'Connor was right.

[dana]

BGA is just a huge ad for outfitters and high fenced hunts. It costs an arm and a leg and the content is very poor IMHO.

The mags that tell the story in the hunter's own writing is what I like. You want the fluff of "how to's" you might as well stick to Petersons or Outdoor Life. And the "how to's" offered in those mags are reruns of reruns of reruns. They are very basic and never go into the meat and potatoes of actually hunting.

If you want to read How to's you are better off reading a book rather than a magazine. Pick your species and you can probably find some quality reading that is not fluff. An example would be Hunting High Country Mule Deer by Mike Eastman or Public Land Mulies The Bottom Line by David Long.

[LeverActionJunkie]

I get the Trio of Rifle, Handloader, and Successful Hunter the same writers do all three and they do a good job. No political BS and not a whole bunch of ads and I hope it stays that way. Can't even pick up a copy of Field & Stream or Outdoor Life anymore, because you gotta search between the ads for an article.

[Brambles]

big buck, big game adventures, eastmans journal

[Sikanni Stalker]

I have 9 subscriptions being delivered and honestly in my opinion the Trad Bowhunter and the western sportsman are the best. The problem with the other mags is there is just too damn much advertising, to the point where there isn't much hunting content just page after page of ads. I am in BC and have a sub to Ontario out of doors too. that mag is awesome, I love em all and keep subscribing, but there aren't may that get worn out in a course of a month like the three I mentioned. the rest get a glance and get brouhgt out to the shed or to the sportsman's club. Fur fish and game are good too but have lots of ads in them as well.

JMHO

[Gateholio]

BGA is just a huge ad for outfitters and high fenced hunts. It costs an arm and a leg and the content is very poor IMHO.

.

Agreed on that...Like I said, BGA was a far better read before it became a catalogue!:razz:

Although I am sure that the magazine has more readers and makes more revenue now than it did when it was a slim magazine filled mostly with hunting adventures in remote areas, rather than the canned hunts of present.:smile:

[bearheart]

I get the Trio of Rifle, Handloader, and Successful Hunter the same writers do all three and they do a good job. No political BS and not a whole bunch of ads and I hope it stays that way. Can't even pick up a copy of Field & Stream or Outdoor Life anymore, because you gotta search between the ads for an article.Agree with above enthusiastically, I would add Traditional Bow Hunter, I don't hunt with a bow but their hunting stories are well written and I frequently learn something I can use... if it helps a guy with a long bow , it's gotta work for me and my 300mag:-)

[JohnS]

Successful Hunter is a very good too! lots of good stories and articles for both the bow hunter and the riffle hunter.

[bckev]

I really like the rocky mountain elk foundation magazine bugle.

[300WM]

Beaver Hunter :wink:

[greybark]

:) I like Traditional Bowhunter magazine but , my favourite is the "OTS" Off The Shelf magazine that comes with joining up with the "Trad Bowhunters of BC" . It is local and the stories are of and by hunters that you know . Lots of help articles complete with photos . The editor ic J_T who posts here quite often .


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[TRACKnTRAIL]

I think Big Buck tops the list for me. Great stories and no "How to Articles"

[bruin]

1. Traditional Bowhunter, real hunts, real hunters, more than just "This is what happened"
2.Eastman's muley specials
3.Bugle though I havn't read it in a while
4. Big bucks is good for some pics
I used to love BGA when it was more North America and until it started with the canned hunts and focus on exotics, good pics though.
Just a note, they do very little editing of sent stories.

[frenchbar]

My favorite hunting mags are Trophy Hunterand Big buck .

[NEEHAMA]

i only like the western canadian mags. i like to read about my area stuff. don't care too much about hunting red jacket finches in bf usa.

[quadrakid]

Big Buck and Bugle for me, though you,ll find a few of every magazine previously mentioned in a large pile under my bed.my kind of porn

[Seth]

Kings Hunting Illustrated and Big Buck. BC Outdoors was hands down my favorite until they turned their backs on us hunters.

[wsm]

big buck for me

[hunter1947]

Seeing me on the frount cover of the magazine ,LOL hunter 1947.

[one-shot-wonder]

Agreed on that...Like I said, BGA was a far better read before it became a catalogue!:razz:

Although I am sure that the magazine has more readers and makes more revenue now than it did when it was a slim magazine filled mostly with hunting adventures in remote areas, rather than the canned hunts of present.:smile:

Well if it makes more revenue now, I couldn't tell because they stiffed my buddy a few times on articles he wrote for them and they promised to pay. The were published of course and no cheque in the mail........:mad:



Big game adventures, they always have a good chunk of bc hunts as well as around the world stuff, on the down side they do feature "fenced" hunts which I choose not to read. I got away from bc outdoors when they went to fishing only mags, but from your comments I might have to rethink that stratedgy, How many hunting features are there a year??

My father had subscriptions of BC Outdoors from about '78 -'98. I like to borrow them 1 year at a time and read the old stuff, i find it interesting to see how things have changed and things that haven't changed. I think I would resubscribe if they brought the hunting back but their fishing mags don't do anything for me.

As for the fenced hunts.....If Raymond needs to publish Fenced hunts for content let him but as long as this continues he'll never catch me reading.

[Sitkaspruce]

Eastmans
Bugle
Kings
Big Buck
Mountain Hunter, BCGOA Ass. mag that I get for free.
Soon to get muley Crazy


I get BGA, but I paid for one year in 99 and still get it, it says my subscription runs out in 09. Only paid for one year. Will continue to read it as long as I get it for free.

Cannot stand the "how to mags" except the archery ones as they have given me many tips to improve my shooting.

[30-06]

Big Game Adventures,Big Buck,Hunting&Shooting,Kings Outdoor World

[rockrabbitt]

I enjoy reading the Alberta Game Warden magazine, it has interesting articles, plus it lets you know who has been busted for hunting infractions in several provinces.

[Rainwater]

Also a fan of Traditional Bowhunter, sometimes BC Outdoors, but really like OTS (Off The Shelf) printed by the TBBC. BC guys doing wildlife projects and lots of bowhunting stories and topics that apply to BC.

[Sideofabarn]

Add me to the list of Traditional Bowhunter. I like the fact that the advertising isn't the print form of neon, and lots of real game taken the hard way... Methinks I need to join the TBBC anyone got any more good words about it?

[Kitimat Killer]

I have to say BGA mag for me, love the stories

[model88]

For me its Trophy Hunter, Big Buck and Bugle. Can't stand to read BGA, a guy at work gave me one too read one night, guess I was bored.

Couldn't believe that they would publish a story where the publisher of the magazine goes out, wounds a bull elk with his bow, they leave the elk for a few hours then go back at dark, they see the elk heading for a deep dark swamp so he gets out and shoots the bull in the headlights of the truck using a rifle.

[Mattimoose]

Handloader and Rifle magazines from Petersen's. Unfortunately, now, there is far too much advertising. if you want to learn a lot about guns, find some American Rifleman mags from the 60's and early 70's, and you will learn more than anybody else you know. When I was growing-up, i would take one of my dad's old Shooting Times, Guns and Ammo Or National Rifleman with me into the washroom to read and came-out with a pretty broad knowledge without really ever taking time-out of my schedule! These old books from the gun-happy US of the Viet-Nam era have more educational info and less advertising than any other publications. It's kinda like the golden-age of guns. If you wanna look at pictures, and find-out the latest gadget you can blow money-on, buy new. If you want to learn the Nut and bolt How, Why and When of guns, get the classics.

[Rainwater]

Sideofabarn, Hope I spelled it right cause I have a hard time hitting one too. Just Google TBBC and it will guide you in.

[Elkhound]

Bugle for me

[pork n beans]

Barely legal

[pork n beans]

I take it hunting with me

[Young buck]

Petersons Hunting and Big Game Adventures

[.308win]

"Newfoundland Sportsman" for some good down to earth hunting stories that are funny and not "how to" stories, all stories are just joe's like us writing to the mag. Good read!!