All Soldier of Fortune mag. scanned

LOL I remember my pops sending me in to the store when I was a kid and buy that rag for him. He was scared of being on a government list!
 
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Harddrive machine go brrrrrrr
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i already skimmed through SoF 2004-02 where the cover photo is the HK OICW submission "Will This Rifle Replace The M16?"
lulz no.
I also marveled at how people used to be able to pose with their slain enemies and not have it labeled a war crime
 
I remember holding a ak74 round at the Soldier of Fortune convention in Las Vegas one fall. First one in the country. Also shooting the 3 gun matches and recruiters for action work buying you drinks if you were shooting well enough. Executive Outcome and Rhodesian security firms hiring. Pugil stick fights over the pool at nite and Seka fighting another porn star. Fun times SOF
 
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Man that is cool as hell! Remember reading all of these on my dad's and grandpa's tables. What a better and different world we used to have!
 
I was an attendee at the 1982 SOF Convention in Charlotte. I bought a Detonics 45, the 300th one built. The first ones were put up on Essex frames. Went to the range to watch and shoot...it was wonderful! I have about 100 of the first SOF magazines in binders. Some of the best old reading I own. Hackathorn, Chuck Taylor were in most issues. To me the Glory Days of shooting was from about 1976 to 1992. I was a big fish in an exceedingly Small pond. What a party I've had.
 
4 gigs is the same as one movie download.

Gonna grab 'em all.
 
SOF was a big part of my joining the military, along with war/sea stories from uncles & my dad's friends. It just sounded & looked like something I had to do.

I remember reading a story about "selection" for the Selous Scouts as a kid & thinking OMGWTF, how does a human being withstand that.
 
Crazy Carl said:
SOF was a big part of my joining the military, along with war/sea stories from uncles & my dad's friends. It just sounded & looked like something I had to do.

I remember reading a story about "selection" for the Selous Scouts as a kid & thinking OMGWTF, how does a human being withstand that.
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Thank You for your service!

The Selous Scouts were the best of the best..! Made their own web gear from native materials and ate rotting elephant carcass for protein...!


I gave @BatteryOaksBilly a book on the Selous Scouts. It is a fantastic read..!
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Brings back a lot of memories. My dad was a “contractor” and knew a guy who worked on that magazine I believe. We had SOF laying around in the house.
That guy used to show up at our house with some interesting toys!
 
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We are lucky to actually have one as an Alumni. We have his picture on the wall with his regiment flashes. A many time visitor we have now not heard from him for a year.....
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That's a S&W......I'm so slow I didn't see you caught it 🤣
 
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BatteryOaksBilly said:
We are lucky to actually have one as an Alumni. We have his picture on the wall with his regiment flashes. A many time visitor we have now not heard from him for a year...

That's a S&W......I'm so slow I didn't see you caught it 🤣
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I figured you’d get the reference! The Detonics were just so dang cool back in the day. Still are, but they were pretty racy for that era.
 
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I figured you’d get the reference! The Detonics were just so dang cool back in the day. Still are, but they were pretty racy for that era.
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I gave Mike a New In The Box one last year for his 60th Birthday. When we were shooting hot and heavy in the 80s he wore two completely Out!!!! Cracked frames and all.
So I made an effort to find a Perfect one and see is he can wear it out??? 😄 😄 😄
 
BatteryOaksBilly said:
I gave Mike a New In The Box one last year for his 60th Birthday. When we were shooting hot and heavy in the 80s he wore two completely Out!!!! Cracked frames and all.
So I made an effort to find a Perfect one and see is he can wear it out??? 😄 😄 😄
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I need more friends like you Billy. Haha.
 
My dad used to get it…matter of fact, I think it’s where I found this ad…this was the mid-80s, so I was around 10 or 11

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Yeah…I got one and thought I was the shiznit. Don’t know whatever happened to it, but sorta wish I still had it, even though it was a hunk-o-sh*t.
 
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My dad used to get it…matter of fact, I think it’s where I found this ad…this was the mid-80s, so I was around 10 or 11

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Yeah…I got one and thought I was the shiznit. Don’t know whatever happened to it, but sorta wish I still had it, even though it was a hunk-o-sh*t.
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Ha! I had one, too!

Related, does anyone remember Gung Ho magazine? More US military-centric. I liked that one, too.
 
thanks for posting the link.
great rainy-day reading.
 
Thanks for posting - bring back lots of memories, I just got lost for an hour reading an old edition.
 
I see this is an old thread but resurrected- I used to buy them pretty routinely. I can recall having 5 or 6 bucks TO MY NAME (as an 18, 19, 20, or 21 year old) and buying SOF over a meal! Using my dads logic of "if you can only buy one of two items, always buy the one that lasts longer", I would go with the magazine! (And anyone that knows me would know I never went hungry, so there's that.)
 
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I see this is an old thread but resurrected- I used to buy them pretty routinely. I can recall having 5 or 6 bucks TO MY NAME (as an 18, 19, 20, or 21 year old) and buying SOF over a meal! Using my dads logic of "if you can only buy one of two items, always buy the one that lasts longer", I would go with the magazine! (And anyone that knows me would know I never went hungry, so there's that.)
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I was the same way between SoF and Gung Ho magazine. I was a child of the Vietnam war generation; my dad did 3 tours, an uncle, 2 tours, a cousin 2 tours, and about four others did a tour each. I also read everything I could about the African bush wars, Selous Scouts, etc. These magazines fed that diet.
 
I was in Germany and bought an SOF from the PX, and one of the guys featured in an article about Rhodesian farm guards was also written up in S&S that month and I met him at the rod and gun range! I remember his name as Jimmy Knapp. He was an E3 or E4 and joined the Army when he returned home from Rhodesia.
 
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