I have been subscribing to a few magazines over the last few years and I would like to express my opinion of them here. To anyone's information, I have no interest in kit. Just so you understand my point of view. 
Primitive archer:
This magazine is about primitive archery, naturally. There is a fair number of articles on bowyery, some hunting stories and some information on plants. As with most magazines, most of the information isn't new, but is to be found elsewhere. As the Bowyer's Bible is so complete on this subject, publishing anything new on this subject isn't exactly easy. The magazine is rather cheap and very interesting, if you haven't read too much on the subject before. But I discontinued my membership because it rarely gave me something new.
Dice: 4
The bowyer's journal:
Bowyery is this magazine supposed to be about. When I subscribed to this magazine I expected some serious articles about making bows. To my disappointment there are very few of them. None that I have seen has given me anything new and I have subscribed from the first day. The articles are normally interviews with someone that obviously knows how to make bows, but there are rarely more than a few useful illustrations. The advertisement promised a lot of articles on bowyery, both modern and tradtional. There is little of the former and even less of the latter. That it is packed with American propaganda and ads for christian organizations everywhere doesn't really help. I have nothing good to say about this magazine and I can't wait for my membership to expire.
Dice: 1
Bushcraft:
This website's own magazine to be about bushcraft, a term I rarely use and don't like. When I subscribed to it I expected a lot more skills and tutorials and a lot fewer kit-articles than I have yet to find there. The magazine is rapidly expanding in size. Contentswise I would say that there are no more of the tutorials and how-to-do articles now than there were in the previous issues. The plant side of it has really improved in the last issue though. There is way too much kit and comparatively only slightly more back to basics than a common Norwegian outdoors magazine.
Dice: 4
The Bulletin of Primitive Technology:
Like the formerly mentioned magazine, this is a community effort. It is about my kind of "bushcraft", packed with articles on making things, skills in general and reports from relevant experiments or experiences. As I have mentioned, orginality is lacking in most magazines. That is true for a few issues of the bulletin too, but usually there is loads of new, exciting information in every issue. The price may seem steep, but the quality is definately worth it. My advice: Subscribe now and buy all available back issues.
Dice: 6
Primitive archer:
This magazine is about primitive archery, naturally. There is a fair number of articles on bowyery, some hunting stories and some information on plants. As with most magazines, most of the information isn't new, but is to be found elsewhere. As the Bowyer's Bible is so complete on this subject, publishing anything new on this subject isn't exactly easy. The magazine is rather cheap and very interesting, if you haven't read too much on the subject before. But I discontinued my membership because it rarely gave me something new.
Dice: 4
The bowyer's journal:
Bowyery is this magazine supposed to be about. When I subscribed to this magazine I expected some serious articles about making bows. To my disappointment there are very few of them. None that I have seen has given me anything new and I have subscribed from the first day. The articles are normally interviews with someone that obviously knows how to make bows, but there are rarely more than a few useful illustrations. The advertisement promised a lot of articles on bowyery, both modern and tradtional. There is little of the former and even less of the latter. That it is packed with American propaganda and ads for christian organizations everywhere doesn't really help. I have nothing good to say about this magazine and I can't wait for my membership to expire.
Dice: 1
Bushcraft:
This website's own magazine to be about bushcraft, a term I rarely use and don't like. When I subscribed to it I expected a lot more skills and tutorials and a lot fewer kit-articles than I have yet to find there. The magazine is rapidly expanding in size. Contentswise I would say that there are no more of the tutorials and how-to-do articles now than there were in the previous issues. The plant side of it has really improved in the last issue though. There is way too much kit and comparatively only slightly more back to basics than a common Norwegian outdoors magazine.
Dice: 4
The Bulletin of Primitive Technology:
Like the formerly mentioned magazine, this is a community effort. It is about my kind of "bushcraft", packed with articles on making things, skills in general and reports from relevant experiments or experiences. As I have mentioned, orginality is lacking in most magazines. That is true for a few issues of the bulletin too, but usually there is loads of new, exciting information in every issue. The price may seem steep, but the quality is definately worth it. My advice: Subscribe now and buy all available back issues.
Dice: 6
But put an article in a magazine about it, i would find it fascinating and perhaps it would provide some new insight into what i am doing wrong (can't even make the damn thing never mind get an ember) but i respond better to someone showing me how to do things, it's just how i learn. To someone else who can do it in their sleep "oh god not another article wasted on a bowdrill, there's 2 pages i won't be reading" or to some extent people who are very clued up on plant lore.."I've already got this in a book somewhere, i know this"
