If I might - I'm a newby here and to DGJ, with limited hunting and shotgunning experience. Yes I appreciate that stunning photography. The very pictures lift me to daydream about what's pictured. By the way, I think buying extra copies and giving them as polished gifts is a wonderful thought.
While being aware of the criticism in the earlier post of the "errors in articles, ignores the basics and prints the most useless, awkward stuff I've ever read" I must exclaim rather that the DGJ is like sittin' down with everyone ! With learned and experienced enthusiasts, with family, with less learned uncles, or with a father, or friend, who though they might sometimes be longwinded and don't exactly get to the point the way in which an academic might, it's as REAL as it gets and I feel like I'm in a dusty yet proper club room (or a basement with a plywood liquor cabinet nearby) sampling what everyone has to say about what they enjoy. Who doesn't read any article within and not picture in your mind the fellow writing it?! Who doesn't actually relate in some small way at least to any writer therein? The magazine is a 'conversation' to me. Plus, that fellow's writing will be there in those beaut pages long after you and I are gone so two drinks to them!
The quote from Dicken's Oliver Twist of "There is a passion for Hunting something deeply implanted in the human heart" goes a long way in explaining that search of my interests. And besides, when i'm on the can and follow-up on articles to which I am less inclined I find after a reread there is much to like. And to close with Dicken's Pickwick Papers "She'll wish there was more, and that's the great art o' letter writin'" - DGJ is a classic, and in a great way, in having you wish the next issue comes quickly.
