Customer Rating:  
Summary: Good Source of Southern Culture
Comment: This is a great magazine if you're interested in Southern culture. All of the articles are well written and cover a broad array of topics from hunting to cuisine to travel. Physically, the magazine is impressive as well. High quality paper, large pages and impressive photography are all positive characteristics of the magazine.
The only reason I didn't rate it 5 stars is because it only includes 6 issues in a 12 month period.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Awesome magazine!
Comment: I am a strictly Southern Accents, Traditional Home, Southern Living type of girl, so I surprised myself by picking up Garden and Gun while I was having my hair done. Even more to my surprise, I loved it, so much so that I ordered a subscription. Garden and Gun is a portrait of Southern life at its finest...no stereotypes here, thank goodness. It has all the decorating, gardening, and cooking features that I look for in my favorite magazines, as well as articles I would never normally read but find fascinating. Who knew that this anti-hunting gal would enjoy an article on Davis Love's hunting cabin? Or would read with enthusiasm an article on famous race horses of the 1800's? I love this magazine so much that I have already given several subscriptions as gifts.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Just plain lame.
Comment: This magazine has a catchy title and very nice graphics and photography. What the premier issue lacks is anything of any substance about guns or hunting. I wonder if they actually read their own title. In my opinion these guys are nothing more than posers from the guns/hunting standpoint and many of the photographs appear to be staged. In particular, there are a couple pictures of a woman shooting a bow and arrow. Not only is she showing extremely poor form she's using the equipment shown in the photographs incorrectly. This is tantamount to using spinning gear with the reel positioned over the top of the fishing pole. If they want to cover hunting they should at least hire a photo editor that knows what (s)he's looking at. If you want a hunting magazine buy something else...
Customer Rating:
Summary: Sadly, it will probably do well
Comment: Positive: Beautiful photography (for the most part, when they weren't completely obvious shots).
Downsides:
1) In an article about women surfers, the author had to comment that "If you think these are a bunch of tree-hugging, pot-smoking, radicals, think again". Surfers have been out of the fringe for some time now. Helloooo!!!
2) There is and article about an admiral becoming the "terror of the Yankees". I thought my grandparents in Alabama were done talking about the damn yankees and how the south lost the war in the 60s but apparently the debate continues...
3)Write about a 20th century author BESIDES Ernest Hemingway--someone that might challenge readers viewpoints.
Final Note: If southern advertisers are looking for a place to advertise to upper-middle class and above--they've got it. As for a real thoughtful, mind-changing, South meets the 21st Century magazine? Forget it. Verbose does not equal quality or literary.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Lovely magazine
Comment: I just received my first issue of Garden and Gun, and while at first, I thought the name was a joke...the content is no laughing matter. It is a lovely magazine with several articles about Ernest Hemingway and the preservation of his home in Cuba and his boat. How can I not love a magazine that has one whole page with a beautiful photograph of a sailboat and a quote by Jimmy Buffett?
I'm impressed and when this year's subscription runs out, I will renew. Again and again.
It just goes to prove, don't judge a magazine by it's title.
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