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Steve Smith

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How many of you folks read this? It doens't seem like a bad mag, and though my wife has "come around" to the pro-gun side very well, I hesitate to bring a "militant" mag into the house...discuss.

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Frontsight!
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Why is everybody all boud up about the AK-47? YEAH, I GOT ONE, WHAT'S IT TO YA?!
 
Good way to get your car searched if you have a copy lying on the front seat. ;)

The last issue I read featured modern pirates and their armory. Holy sh!t, Batman! Glad I don't do that sailor thing like Grandpa did (yes, I'm a Son of a Son of a Sailor); you'd need a Barrett to fight them bastards off.

On the whole, it's a good rag, well-done and guaranteed to drive tree-huggers into a pants-wetting frenzy.
 
Put a copy of Mother Earth News next to SOF on that car seat - a daily dose of dissonance for the self-appointed busybodies...

I have scrips for both.

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Slowpoke Rodrigo...he pack a gon...

"That which binds us together is infinitely greater than that on which we disagree" - Neal Knox

"Quemadmoeum gladuis neminem occidit, occidentis
telum est." (A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's
hands.) --Lucius Annaeus Seneca, circa 45 AD
 
I have subscribed to SOF since the mid-eighties. Good magazine. Their authors go to the trouble spots in the world, mix with the troops, and give a perspective you will never get on the six or eleven o'clock news.
 
SoF is not the wild-eyed magazine it seems to be. It is pretty level-headed. I skim it and Small Arms Review at the local B+N. SAR is cool. I would really like to have the bux to go to the Hiram Maxim shoot in Maine.
 
Coinneach, You sound like you might know...has Jimmy Buffett scheduled a concert around these parts this year? I haven't seen him since he was at Fiddler's YEARS ago. BTW, is it pronounced "connich"? Brenda helped.

Back to topic: How much of what you read in it is true, and how much is embellished, do you think?

P.S., I only listen to mainstream (6 o'clock) media to know what I'm up against, anyway.
 
Frontsight, I don't think Jimmy is coming here this year. Imagine him and Bonnie Raitt at Red Rocks... I could die happy after that show. :)

(and Brenda can't pronounce my name right no matter how many times I tell her. Ask Sue or J.)
 
Another nice thing about SOF is their gun reviews. If it's a dog, you won't read any namby-pamby fluff about it - they tell you straight up it's a pice of caca.

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"...and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one."
Luke 22:36
"An armed society is a polite society."
Robert Heinlein
"Power corrupts. Absolute power - is kinda cool!"
Fred Reed
 
SOF (IMO) is one of the very few magazines you can read to get the straight scoop on what is going on around the world without the liberal bias on the network news or CNN (AKA, the Clinton News Network). The folks that write the articles have "been there and done that" and report things from a first hand perspective.

Peter G. Kokalis will give you the truth in his firearms tests and that by itself is very refreshing.

I attended 3 of the conventions that SOF holds evey year in Las Vegas ('88, '89 & '90) and couldn't have had a better time anyplace. I hear they are not as "lively" as they use to be though.

Joe/Ga
 
I started reading them just after they started.I got info out of the magazine that came out in the papers a year or better after.They where the first to get there hands on a AK-74.They brought back 2 and gave one to the DOD.The cia had been after one for a long time.I don't allways agree with what the say but they say everything well.

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Age and deceit will overcome youth and speed.
I'm old and deceitful.
 
On PJK's gun reviews: He does tell it as it is, for sure. My pet peeve is that he doesn't do 25yd. grouping with his HG tests, only 7yds.(IIRC), as this is the normal engagement distance, blah-blah-blah. OTHO, he sure does know how to describe a design, and it's function, like an engineer. :)
 
And this magazine is one of the few, maybe the only, that called for a boycott of S&W products. Great mag! They tell it like it is and usually tell it first.

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"Vote with a Bullet."
 
I buy one whenever I go someplace that has them.
Never did subscribe though.
I can't afford to be labeled a "whacko" in
our small community.
FWIW I do donate the read magazines to the library after a year or so.

Be safe, MDS
 
Hey.....I GOTS the mag with the image on the front that matches their '25th Anniversery T-shirt." I'll have to go look but it's either from '84 or '85.. :) :)

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Soldier of fortune is in the pocket of publisher, Paladin Press. Not that that is bad, I kinda like their books.
 
SoF has gone WAY to political for me. Had it been pol. neutral, it would have been ok, but as it is.. i prefer Combat & Survival.

SoF ought to change the name of the magazine.

[This message has been edited by Silicon (edited July 20, 2000).]
 
Back when SOF first came out they (Brown) had some VERY politically incorrect articles, like exactly how to take someone out with a knife, with pictures, and “man-traps” (among others) and direct advertisements concerning mercenary work overseas. Over the past decade SOF has toned it down to mild news articles and product reviews. I liked the old SOF better.

Skyhawk
 
You can see shots of a lot of dead people too. The classified aren't as shady as they once were, but overall they do get into the mud and then tell you about it.

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First there was the Heaven and Earth then there was the Glock 20

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Well, onve upon a time it was a good mag.. Heck, I got my first contracts through it. But these days? It doesn't add up to much more that a few gun reviews & political ranting... The guns they review are too expensive for most of us, except the odd sidearm... and we in the trade just aint that interested in US politics... I wonder where the guys who're just starting their careers look for jobs... any ideas?
 
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