Just wanting to let you all know that the 2009 edition of Bowhunter Australia is finally off to the printers. We have been holding off on any announcements as it has been a massive beast to put together this year.

This year has been fantastic and we would like to thank Tony Stoyanovski who has really stepped up to the plate in helping me with some of the artwork load and also to John Taylor who volunteered his time to help Ant edit the wording of the articles. Without these guys help, the mag would not come to fruition or be anywhere near the standard that you will see when it comes out.

Speaking of it coming out, due to the turn around from the printers and the fact that it won’t be back until near on christmas, the mag will not be in the shops until somewhere around the second week of January. Very sorry not to have it out by christmas, as hoped for, but hopefully it will be worth the wait.

Also the mag this time around will be a whopping 288 pages and there will be many familiar faces from the website and some great overseas writers. I also have to thank all the writers as the articles really are tremendous and without them, again, there would be no mag.

Another big announcement that we would like to make at this point is the fact that the mag will be going to two editions a year. Due to the massive response from all the writers, when we went to finalise the format of this edition, we got to around 320 pages and realised that we still had another 120+ pages to go. This would have pushed production and postage costs into astronomical proportions, so what was decided was that we would cut down to to 292 pages and then have one out in 6 to 9 months time that will be around the original 228 pages that the first edition was. The good news is that the next one is not far off being done, though a few articles will be required to fill it, but it will good to be ahead of time for once. Not sure of the timing of the two editions per year, but we are leaning towards a September and March release to coincide with hunting seasons and to stay away from christmas.

So there you go folks. Thank you all for your patience, especially some of the guys who got their articles to us a long time ago, and from here lets hope we go from strength in getting bowhunting out there to the masses with another Australian publication that will be on our shelves alongside our other fine bowhunting and hunting publications.

Cover photo: Howie Griffin