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10 Best Survival Magazines For Preppers [Updated 2023]

Updated by Editorial Staff

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So many magazines, which ones should you bother reading? There are dozens of different magazines to pick from. If you’re going to be reading and consuming information on survival and preparedness, you want to make sure it’s the right information. The quality and relevance have to be there

In this post, we go over ten of the best survival preparedness magazines that have the best content.

Table of Contents

  • What Makes A Good Survival Magazine
  • The Backwoodsman
  • Ballistic
  • Field & Stream
  • OFF GRID
  • Mother Earth News Magazine
  • The New Pioneer
  • Conclusion
  • Survivors Edge
  • RECOIL
  • The Backwoodsman
  • Ballistic
  • Field & Stream
  • OFF GRID
  • Mother Earth News Magazine
  • The New Pioneer
  • Conclusion
  • Prepper Survival Guide
  • American Survival Guide Magazine
  • Survivors Edge
  • RECOIL
  • The Backwoodsman
  • Ballistic
  • Field & Stream
  • OFF GRID
  • Mother Earth News Magazine
  • The New Pioneer
  • Conclusion

What Makes A Good Survival Magazine

Here’s what we look for in a survival magazine:

  • Quality of content
  • Consistency
  • Practicality
  • Gear
  • Technology
  • Sport
  • Outdoor
  • Home and Personal Defense

The Backwoodsman

The Backwoodsman has been serving the backcountry lifestyle market for decades.

This magazine publishes in-depth content on how to live in the wilderness and bushcraft content. If you’re at all interested in becoming more self-reliant or becoming a better woodsman, check out The Backwoodsman.

The content is heavily geared towards the backwoods and DIY living lifestyle. It’s the magazine for the 21st-century frontiersman.

Ballistic

This magazine is the premier firearms and survival magazine. Well built reputation and high-quality information.

It’s a must-read for all firearms and survival enthusiasts. It’s packed full of guns, bigger guns, survival tips, and even beer.

Field & Stream

If you’re into anything fishing or hunting and anything in between, this is the magazine to read.

If you have been fishing or hunting for any length of time. You have probably heard of or have seen Field and Stream in grocery stores on the shelves.

OFF GRID

Could you survive off the grid if SHTF?

This magazine will prepare you for the worst. Recoil also has an urban survival magazine edition publication.

The Urban Survival publication is a guide on personal protection for your family. How to protect yourself and your family during traveling is a primary topic.

Mother Earth News Magazine

I’m always impressed with the quality of content Mother Earth News pumps into one issue.

Their articles are long and in-depth, packed with information. If you’re a homesteader, live off the grid, or are interested in the self-sufficient lifestyle like all of us are. Mother Earth News is the magazine to stay up to date on.

The New Pioneer

Are you a homesteader as well? Or just want to be more efficient and self-reliant? Most of us preppers do, it’s part of the lifestyle. So this magazine is great at giving you useful tips on how to live off the grid.

Conclusion

Subscribing to any of these magazines would be beneficial. They all do a great job of providing useful content.

If you’re a fanatic like me, you’ll read all ten of them and even more.

There are many more magazines that are also high quality and definitely worth reading.

We hope you like this article on the best survival magazines. If you liked this post, make sure you go to The Ultimate Survival Library, it has the best survival books to build a library with.

What’s your favorite survival magazines that you read on an ongoing basis?

Survivors Edge

Quality is the focus of this magazine.

They give detailed guides on how to prepare and survive disasters and emergencies.

This magazine always has long form content that’s packed with specifics that help you. You won’t find any fluff in this magazine.

RECOIL

Recoil is a dense magazine that’s a must-read for the outdoors and gun lifestyle enthusiasts. If you haven’t been living under a rock and even slightly interested in guns or survival, you’ve heard of RECOIL.

They cover topics in:

  • Gear
  • Technology
  • Sport
  • Outdoor
  • Home and Personal Defense

The Backwoodsman

The Backwoodsman has been serving the backcountry lifestyle market for decades.

This magazine publishes in-depth content on how to live in the wilderness and bushcraft content. If you’re at all interested in becoming more self-reliant or becoming a better woodsman, check out The Backwoodsman.

The content is heavily geared towards the backwoods and DIY living lifestyle. It’s the magazine for the 21st-century frontiersman.

Ballistic

This magazine is the premier firearms and survival magazine. Well built reputation and high-quality information.

It’s a must-read for all firearms and survival enthusiasts. It’s packed full of guns, bigger guns, survival tips, and even beer.

Field & Stream

If you’re into anything fishing or hunting and anything in between, this is the magazine to read.

If you have been fishing or hunting for any length of time. You have probably heard of or have seen Field and Stream in grocery stores on the shelves.

OFF GRID

Could you survive off the grid if SHTF?

This magazine will prepare you for the worst. Recoil also has an urban survival magazine edition publication.

The Urban Survival publication is a guide on personal protection for your family. How to protect yourself and your family during traveling is a primary topic.

Mother Earth News Magazine

I’m always impressed with the quality of content Mother Earth News pumps into one issue.

Their articles are long and in-depth, packed with information. If you’re a homesteader, live off the grid, or are interested in the self-sufficient lifestyle like all of us are. Mother Earth News is the magazine to stay up to date on.

The New Pioneer

Are you a homesteader as well? Or just want to be more efficient and self-reliant? Most of us preppers do, it’s part of the lifestyle. So this magazine is great at giving you useful tips on how to live off the grid.

Conclusion

Subscribing to any of these magazines would be beneficial. They all do a great job of providing useful content.

If you’re a fanatic like me, you’ll read all ten of them and even more.

There are many more magazines that are also high quality and definitely worth reading.

We hope you like this article on the best survival magazines. If you liked this post, make sure you go to The Ultimate Survival Library, it has the best survival books to build a library with.

What’s your favorite survival magazines that you read on an ongoing basis?

If the content isn’t thorough and leaves you with more questions than answers. Then it probably isn’t a good resource to use.

We want the content to leave us with no unanswered questions or confusion.

There are dozens of different magazines that would be worth reading. But that would be ridiculous to list dozens of magazines and say “go read them all”.

So I made a short and sweet list. Here are the top 10 magazines for preppers. They aren’t in any particular order.

Prepper Survival Guide

This magazine contains some of the highest detail in the content you can find in magazines for preparedness.

It covers all of the core pillars of preparedness, from learning how to grow your own food to learning how to prepare for a disaster.

American Survival Guide Magazine

This American survival magazine has been one of the leaders in this magazine category for a while now.

They provide high-quality content in the categories of:

  • Food
  • Water
  • Shelter
  • Security
  • Communication
  • Health

The American Survival Guide also publishes different issues based on a specific category. This is another one of them.

The Prepper Emergency Survival Manual covers the essential emergency gear and tips that preppers should know.

Survivors Edge

Quality is the focus of this magazine.

They give detailed guides on how to prepare and survive disasters and emergencies.

This magazine always has long form content that’s packed with specifics that help you. You won’t find any fluff in this magazine.

RECOIL

Recoil is a dense magazine that’s a must-read for the outdoors and gun lifestyle enthusiasts. If you haven’t been living under a rock and even slightly interested in guns or survival, you’ve heard of RECOIL.

They cover topics in:

  • Gear
  • Technology
  • Sport
  • Outdoor
  • Home and Personal Defense

The Backwoodsman

The Backwoodsman has been serving the backcountry lifestyle market for decades.

This magazine publishes in-depth content on how to live in the wilderness and bushcraft content. If you’re at all interested in becoming more self-reliant or becoming a better woodsman, check out The Backwoodsman.

The content is heavily geared towards the backwoods and DIY living lifestyle. It’s the magazine for the 21st-century frontiersman.

Ballistic

This magazine is the premier firearms and survival magazine. Well built reputation and high-quality information.

It’s a must-read for all firearms and survival enthusiasts. It’s packed full of guns, bigger guns, survival tips, and even beer.

Field & Stream

If you’re into anything fishing or hunting and anything in between, this is the magazine to read.

If you have been fishing or hunting for any length of time. You have probably heard of or have seen Field and Stream in grocery stores on the shelves.

OFF GRID

Could you survive off the grid if SHTF?

This magazine will prepare you for the worst. Recoil also has an urban survival magazine edition publication.

The Urban Survival publication is a guide on personal protection for your family. How to protect yourself and your family during traveling is a primary topic.

Mother Earth News Magazine

I’m always impressed with the quality of content Mother Earth News pumps into one issue.

Their articles are long and in-depth, packed with information. If you’re a homesteader, live off the grid, or are interested in the self-sufficient lifestyle like all of us are. Mother Earth News is the magazine to stay up to date on.

The New Pioneer

Are you a homesteader as well? Or just want to be more efficient and self-reliant? Most of us preppers do, it’s part of the lifestyle. So this magazine is great at giving you useful tips on how to live off the grid.

Conclusion

Subscribing to any of these magazines would be beneficial. They all do a great job of providing useful content.

If you’re a fanatic like me, you’ll read all ten of them and even more.

There are many more magazines that are also high quality and definitely worth reading.

We hope you like this article on the best survival magazines. If you liked this post, make sure you go to The Ultimate Survival Library, it has the best survival books to build a library with.

What’s your favorite survival magazines that you read on an ongoing basis?

About Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff at The Survival Journal is a team of survival experts in a range of survival expertise from wilderness survival, disaster preparedness, to preparing for the next financial collapse.

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