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Friday, May 11. 2007

"Garden & Gun"

There is a new magazine out there, Garden and Gun. It sounds like an ideal sort of Maggie's Farm magazine (h/t, Dr. Helen).

With a photo of Pat Conroy on the cover, how bad could it be? I'll give it a try, if only to find out whether it's more interesting than our Maggie's Farm blog. I am certain that it is better-written.

Re gun mags, I used to subscribe to Shooting Sportsman, but it has become too snooty for my taste. Informative, though, if you own $60,000 shotguns instead of Mossbergs and Brownings like regular folks.

Posted by Bird Dog in Gardens, Plants, etc., Hunting, Fishing, Dogs, Guns, etc., Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 06:28 | Comments (10) | Trackbacks (0)

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I ordered it.
$15 to have that sitting on my coffee table when my uber-liberal sister from Cohasset stops by? Perfect!
#1 John on 2007-05-11 07:09 (Reply)
I love to drive my commie-fascist siblings nuts by making sure I am in the middle of cleaning a gun when they stop by.
#2 BD on 2007-05-11 07:15 (Reply)
Let us know how you like it. The concept is brilliant.
#3 NJSoldier on 2007-05-11 08:42 (Reply)
Yes, Shooting Sportsman and even worse, Double Gun Journal, have always been snooty. There is no snobbery like shotgun snobbery.

I'm curious about Garden and Gun, though.
#4 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2007-05-11 09:18 (Reply)
No one with a choice would use a double gun for ducks and geese. You need that third shot to say "F- you" to them as they fly out of range.
#5 BD on 2007-05-11 09:24 (Reply)
Haw haw--so true--
#6 buddy larsen on 2007-05-11 13:26 (Reply)
Is it true that you are required contractually to drive a 1937 Lagonda to the pheasant fields whenever you bring your Holland & Holland?

Something you sign when you buy the thing? :-)
#7 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2007-05-11 14:11 (Reply)
Don't forget the jodphurs & boots, tweed jacket, fore & aft hat, and burled walnut pipe--
#8 buddy larsen on 2007-05-11 18:19 (Reply)
Check out the Vintagers.
#8.1 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2007-05-11 19:02 (Reply)
My slick magazine venture, "Hog Pens and Galoshes", for some reason never really caught the public imagination.
#9 buddy larsen on 2007-05-11 18:23 (Reply)

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