Customer Reviews

Outdoor Life (1-year automatic renewal)

Outdoor life is a nice magazine. There are some very interesting articles and the writers are certainly educated on hunting, fishing, camping, and outdoor survival. This magazine is a must for the outdoorsman. I'm only giving it 4 stars because some of the articles seem to be recycled from month to month and I'd like to see some more interesting content/ideas. Nonetheless I plan to re-up my subscription for another year.

I doubt I'll renew my subscription to this magazine. It seems like there were a lot of real bad articles in the magazine and all the better writers that they used to have are no longer writing for them like Jim Zumbo, Pat McManus and others.

This magazine is for the normal Joe Blow. If you want to read about some guy who hunted on a ranch and killed a 200+ inch steroid fed beast, stay away. If you want tips on how to hunt pressured public land or to see pictures of readers' deer, then this is what you need to be reading.

I began reading Outdoor Life as a child and was fascinated by the writing, the pictures and the content. Some years later I have renewed my subscription and I find a poorly managed magazine with poorly written, uninteresting articles. The magazine is stuffed beyond belief with meaningless ads for everything from cigarettes to torque wrenches. There are none of the stories I was used to reading in the past. There are no stories of imagination, overcoming adverse weather or circumstances. The magazine is a mindless collection of how-to articles composed by a few self-important so-called experts whose writing is so boring and empty that it is hard to read. Overall the magazine is not even a shadow of what it used to be and is a waste of time and money, useful only for lining trash cans and bird cages. You publishers and writers should be very ashamed of what you have done to a former best outdoor publication.

Overall the magazine is pretty good. Easy reading. Gives me something to do for about 15 min's a month. Came during the time advertised.

Outdoor Life was once a classy outdoor magazine with good writing and a conservation bent. It has descended to the lowest rung of the genre. Small snippets of trite advice and a heavy heaping of red-neck philosophy. Sad.

Some gear comparisons; some nice pictures - overall it's not bad for the money ($5 per year).
Something to glance through while having your cup of coffee.

While there are some interesting articles, they are few and far between. In fact several months, there have been almost as many full page ads as there are pages with articles on them. Quite honestly, I'm really sick of being blasted with full page ads for smokeless tobacco, cigarettes and e-cigarettes in a magazine about the "clean outdoor life". I realize smokers go outside too, but I honestly feel like I'm reading a magazine you'd pick up at a tobacco store. The writing in the articles is OK, but nothing that really jumps out at you. It seems to be more or less just surviving than actually trying to provide anything useful or interesting.

My husband was thrilled with this magazine because it covers all aspects of the outdoors instead of focusing primarily in just hunting or fishing. Great magazine.

I have a long commute on mass transit and love the outdoors. This magazine gives me food for thought, and comparison with my own outdoor experiences and time in the field. Do I always agree with the advice or opinions? No, but isn't that why we read these articles in the first place? I like the layout and the article always seem to relevant to something I've done or wanted to do as an outdoorsman. Also, Bonnier, the publisher, gave me great customer service when I found out that my wife bought me subscription to Outdoor Life shortly after I had did the same myself. They honored my request to move the remaining account balance over to Field & Stream (another of their publications) with zero hassles. Needless to say, I re-subscribed to both.