Remember US Cavalry Catalogs?

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Posted: 9/16/2014 11:09:58 PM EDT

Anyone else remember getting US Cav catalogs back in the day and pouring over them looking at gear? Cold Steel, ALICE gear, sabers, BDUs, repro Civil War percussion guns, red gooseneck flashlights?

It was the precursor to the web and places like Arfcom.....

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:10:34 PM EDT

[#1]

I do

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:11:03 PM EDT

[#2]

Yup

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:11:06 PM EDT

[#3]

yes

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:11:07 PM EDT

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Anyone else remember getting US Cav catalogs back in the day and pouring over them looking at gear? Cold Steel, ALICE gear, sabers, BDU's, repro Civil War percussion guns, red gooseneck flashlights?

It was the precursor to the web and places like Arfcom.....

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Damn straight. It was what replaced the Sear's Christmas Wish Book.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:11:09 PM EDT

[#5]

Yes! I was a kid in the 80s and they were great!

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:11:47 PM EDT

[#6]

Oh hell yes. I loved those things, and Brigade Quartermaster.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:12:32 PM EDT

[#7]

I remember those catalogs fondly....

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:12:53 PM EDT

[#8]

yep, and the Brigade Quartermasters catalogs

http://www.brigadeqm.com/

http://www.brigadeqm.com/

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:13:01 PM EDT

[#9]

Sure do.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:13:07 PM EDT

[#10]

Yep.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:13:33 PM EDT

[#11]

The old catalogs were nice but the online customer service sucks badly.
I have been jerked around since July 5th by these people.
I don't recommend.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:13:37 PM EDT

[#12]

I remember them too. Mom would tell me every year to take a look to see what I wanted. Years later at Knob Creek, I made it a point to thank the owner for all his company did for me.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:15:34 PM EDT

[#13]

Ranger Joe's

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:15:52 PM EDT

[#14]

Very much so.

I remember the one with the cover of the survival knife that was all steel and aluminum and the hand guard had rear facing spikes.

I was young and thought, "That will be mine some day and I am going to use it as a grappling hook!"

Very fond memories of those catalogs.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:17:12 PM EDT

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Yes! I was a kid in the 80s and they were great!

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Posted: 9/16/2014 11:17:59 PM EDT

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Damn straight. It was what replaced the Sear's Christmas Wish Book.

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Anyone else remember getting US Cav catalogs back in the day and pouring over them looking at gear? Cold Steel, ALICE gear, sabers, BDU's, repro Civil War percussion guns, red gooseneck flashlights?

It was the precursor to the web and places like Arfcom.....

Damn straight. It was what replaced the Sear's Christmas Wish Book.

This.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:19:13 PM EDT

[#17]

Yep, we'd go by there and Ranger Joe's whenever we went to the Infantry Museum at Benning

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:19:34 PM EDT

[#18]

Best bathroom reading material ever

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:20:44 PM EDT

[#19]

Yep. I still have and use a pair of Danner boots I got from one of those catalogs back in 1991.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:25:31 PM EDT

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yep, and the Brigade Quartermasters catalogs

http://www.brigadeqm.com/

http://www.brigadeqm.com/

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Wow... No more Kennesaw? Wild. I stopped in at their store a few times while I was driving a truck(would have been 2005-2007 time frame, and I found an online order in my email archives from 2003). It was about the ONLY thing I liked about being sent to the Atlanta area

US Cav was always insanely overpriced, but the catalog was fun to go through.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:28:05 PM EDT

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Anyone else remember getting US Cav catalogs back in the day and pouring over them looking at gear? Cold Steel, ALICE gear, sabers, BDUs, repro Civil War percussion guns, red gooseneck flashlights?

It was the precursor to the web and places like Arfcom.....

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Yup, I just checked the website...Heads up Arf, they have ACU shirts in XXXXL long!

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:29:37 PM EDT

[#22]

It was my source for uniform items when I was in the NG.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:34:05 PM EDT

[#23]

Parallax

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:36:13 PM EDT

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Hell, I still have some in the bathroom closet.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:39:25 PM EDT

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Went in U.S. Cavalry a few years ago when we went to Knobb Creek M.G. shoot. They had all the old catalogs framed on the wall from the late 80's and early 90's. I remembered having almost all of them.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:41:40 PM EDT

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Hell, I still have some in the bathroom closet.

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Oh hell yes. I loved those things, and Brigade Quartermaster.

Hell, I still have some in the bathroom closet.

Anything from the 80's/90's that you could snap a pic/scan of for old time's sake?

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:41:51 PM EDT

[#27]

I only ever shopped Ranger Joe's.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:42:29 PM EDT

[#28]

I remember drooling over US Cavaly, Brigade Quartermaster and Ranger Joe's catalogs while wasting away inside the supply cage of my unit back in the early 90s. Those were the days; drinking coffe, shooting the bull and waiting for the time to roll into the field on a hot, sweaty, balmy Georgia summer with the 24th ID.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:45:04 PM EDT

[#29]

Lol,

Brigade Quartermasters was great! But someone else proceeded them all....

Parrallax

Who here is old enough to remember them?

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:46:11 PM EDT

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Yep, looks like you beat me to it.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:46:25 PM EDT

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The old catalogs were nice but the online customer service sucks badly.
I have been jerked around since July 5th by these people.
I don't recommend.

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In the 90's they weren't bad but a few years back they turned into serious shitbirds. I'd order from Botach before them now.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:46:42 PM EDT

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Anyone else remember getting US Cav catalogs back in the day and pouring over them looking at gear? Cold Steel, ALICE gear, sabers, BDUs, repro Civil War percussion guns, red gooseneck flashlights?

It was the precursor to the web and places like Arfcom.....

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Hell yes...my brother and I would mark that shit up for Xmas time.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:48:11 PM EDT

[#33]

Yup.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:50:03 PM EDT

[#34]

I get an email almost everyday from them now so no, I dont miss them.

Posted: 9/16/2014 11:54:36 PM EDT

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Anything from the 80's/90's that you could snap a pic/scan of for old time's sake?

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Oh hell yes. I loved those things, and Brigade Quartermaster.

Hell, I still have some in the bathroom closet.

Anything from the 80's/90's that you could snap a pic/scan of for old time's sake?

They're not that old, the one that I remember seeing whenever I grab a towel has a P-47 on the cover. Plus, I have never posted a pic online.

Posted: 9/17/2014 12:04:53 AM EDT

[#36]

Yes I do . I remember them being overpriced

Posted: 9/17/2014 12:09:29 AM EDT

[#37]

Yes, was always excited to see it arrive.

Posted: 9/17/2014 12:15:14 AM EDT

[#38]

I remember them offering the Zodiac inflatable rafts that were similar to what Chuck Norris used in Missing In Action. I also really wanted a grappling hook, and then years later when I got a couple grappling hooks I didn't have a real use for them.

Posted: 9/17/2014 12:17:38 AM EDT

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Found these in my bathroom reading material "archive".

The older ones were much more interesting.

But then I found this gem also.

Posted: 9/17/2014 12:19:03 AM EDT

[#40]

Hell yeah! I remember carrying mine around til they were falling apart.

Learned all about all kinds of stuff I never needed to know. Ordered a bunch of stuff too. lol

Posted: 9/17/2014 12:19:19 AM EDT

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Anyone else remember getting US Cav catalogs back in the day and pouring over them looking at gear? Cold Steel, ALICE gear, sabers, BDUs, repro Civil War percussion guns, red gooseneck flashlights?

It was the precursor to the web and places like Arfcom.....

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Yup.

Posted: 9/17/2014 12:21:21 AM EDT

[#42]

good times

Posted: 9/17/2014 12:23:19 AM EDT

[#43]

Stopped by the US Cav store near Ft Campbell back in 92 or 93. Ordered my non issue ckass B wolly pully from BQM.

Posted: 9/17/2014 12:23:45 AM EDT

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Went in U.S. Cavalry a few years ago when we went to Knobb Creek M.G. shoot. They had all the old catalogs framed on the wall from the late 80's and early 90's. I remembered having almost all of them.

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Saw those also, took me back a few.

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Posted: 9/17/2014 12:24:22 AM EDT

[#45]

As a youngster, yes. I convinced my parents to stop at the store when we were driving through Kentucky. I bought some shit. Including a knife which I later sold to my paper route manager, because I realized it was kinda shitty and wanted something better.

Posted: 9/17/2014 12:25:48 AM EDT

[#46]

Yep. Drooled like crazy during the late 80's in high school. Visiting the store outside Ft Knox in the fall of 1990 was the highlight of my first weekend pass in Basic.

Posted: 9/17/2014 12:26:09 AM EDT

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Anyone else remember getting US Cav catalogs back in the day and pouring over them looking at gear? Cold Steel, ALICE gear, sabers, BDUs, repro Civil War percussion guns, red gooseneck flashlights?

It was the precursor to the web and places like Arfcom.....

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I just brought this up with a old buddy the other day.

Really cool stuff for the day, but we couldn't afford most of it at the time but we did add to our gear
what we could afford.

You young guys have it made for cheap and light weight bug out gear.
Humping out WWII, Korean and "modern" Vietnam gear back in the day was a chore.

At least we didn't have to deal with cast iron pans and buffalo hides.

Posted: 9/17/2014 12:28:50 AM EDT

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Yup, I just checked the website...Heads up Arf, they have ACU shirts in XXXXL long!

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Anyone else remember getting US Cav catalogs back in the day and pouring over them looking at gear? Cold Steel, ALICE gear, sabers, BDUs, repro Civil War percussion guns, red gooseneck flashlights?

It was the precursor to the web and places like Arfcom.....

Yup, I just checked the website...Heads up Arf, they have ACU shirts in XXXXL long!

Why were you looking at XXXXL shirts?