Re: New Magazine Spawns Possible Garden Critter Solution

**"* B* <g*@otherside.com>**

Perhaps some of this is a bit hard to take unless you have the cultural 
background. The new publication may be right on target.
    I have a brother who is a retired truck driver who now works part time 
for the local bottled gas company. His wife works for a local factory in 
shipping. Both are southern in that they live outside Nashville, TN. Both 
are into flowers in their yard, a vegetable garden and the big manly thing 
to have is a large water feature with fish to talk about. Both hunt deer in 
season together. My brother has more guns than the local armory. They would 
not be considered the "affluent", but they do spend money on plants and 
related products. I doubt either of them consider themselves "gardeners" 
unless you refer to the vegetable garden. The up scale would be their 
neighbors who are a bit younger and spent more money on new homes around 
him... the big Mc Mansions.
    My father always carried a pistol in his tackle box when fishing in a 
boat... shoot snakes that get into the boat without putting a hole in the 
bottom... bird shot was used..... Now that I have neighbors all round me I 
would consider a smooth bore for pests....Makes sense if you are from the 
culture where people accept and use firearms... and want to do it safely.
    Gene ... with my red neck showing.
Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doreen Howard" <gardendiva@charter.net>
> Garden & Gun, a new Southern lifestyle magazine, will hit newsstands in
> April. The publication will reflect "the modern lives of affluent
> Southerners and those who aspire to the sporting life of the South,"
> according to a company statement. Garden & Gun's unusual title comes from 
> a
> club of the same name, which operated in Charleston, S.C., from 1978 to
> 1985. Publisher Rebecca Darwin said the magazine aims to be more upscale 
> and
> targeted than mass-audience titles like Southern Living.
>
> Marlin Firearms must have had a heads up on the Guns and Garden magazine.
> They have introduced a small, smooth bore .22 rifle that shoots .22 mag.
> snake shot.  It's marketed as "perfect for getting rid of chipmunks, mice,
> snakes, and other garden pests", sort of a mini shot gun. Without the loud
> blast.  It will be called the "Garden Gun".
>
> Folks, I can't possibly make up this stuff.  All of the above is from 
> press
> releases that have crossed my desk in the last 48 hours.
>
> Doreen Howard


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