American Survival Guide

That's because you can't survive marriage. Even if you endure it you still end up dead.

I had forgotten about the subscription transferring. That was a long time ago.
 
gunknifenut said:
I loved that Magazine when I was younger, is that the Magazine that always had a huge generator on the back cover. I bought it every 2-3 months, I don't think it was monthly.
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American Survival Guide or as it was first called "Survival Guide" began in late 81 or early 82. The first year or so it was bimonthly, by 84 or 85 it was monthly. I still have my back issues and a near 10 or 12 year strait run up until 1999 . I am missing a few issues in the first 2 or three years. The last ones i have are from 1999. News-stands around here gradually stopped carrying it (and gun mags) in the very late 90's.

I think ASG went belly up in 99 or 2000. It sort of went downhill in its last few years. Turned more into a politics and gun magazine. Basically every cover in the last two years was pretty much either a tricked out ar-15/m-16 or a tricked out 1911-A1. Its Kinda confusing when you are trying to figure out if you have that particular issue when every month had almost the same cover.lol!
And its not that i didn't enjoy the gun articles but really there were a bazillion other mags around for that. Basically ASG lost its focus and then folded.

Someone here mentioned the Soldier of Fortune survivor magazine. That was called "Survive". I have some back issues of that also. Actually that was a good mag as well. I wish someone would pdf those and ASG and offer them for sale.
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I used to read it all the time, I remember in 98 or so when I started seeing the magazine everywhere when everyone started building to Y2K. I know that after that Fizzle ran out alot of surplus stores and "Survival" stores went out of business, I think that was the final nail for ASG as well. People got real paranoid for a short time then went back to thinking the system would protect them.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
I just got back from the store with the latest Popular Mechanics. Cover story: Survive Anything
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I'd be interested to know whether they recommend a handgun for self-defense in the event of breakdown of law enforcement.

A while back, mid- to late-90's, iirc, either popsci or popmech had an editorial by a guy who went to the range for the first time. Short version, he was afraid of guns, and continued to be afraid of guns, and said something to the effect of leaving firearms in the hands of LEOs only.

A quick google turned up this, however: http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/1277321.html
published in '02.

At least someone there has a clue... I haven't been impressed with the content of either magazine, since I figured out around the turn of the century that they were just making up crap about future Moon/Mars missions, and all the neat toys in them never hit the market.
 
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