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Posted: 5/22/2002 11:58:37 AM EDT
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NO IT"S NOT TRUE.
SOF has changed a lot in recent years, it's not like it used to, and i would have no problem letting anyone know i read it. i agree, it USED to be like that, but it's rather tame now, and there haven't been "guns for hire" ads for like 15 years i think, (if there ever was, as long as i have read it, there has been nothing like that) |
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Posted: 5/22/2002 11:59:19 AM EDT
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Seems to me that several years ago I saw a classified wanting a (I think the wording was) banjo picker, I've also seen classified ads that seemed a little conspiracy-theoryish to me (one moniker asking another moniker to contact them ASAP).
Nothing too bad, however I personally reguard the mag as a tabloid type "rag". Jake |
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Posted: 5/22/2002 12:01:33 PM EDT
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IIRC, SOF mag lost a court case a few years back wherein they were the unwitting intermediary in a murder-for-hire scheme.
IIRC, they published an ad for a guy looking for "work", and that started the ball rolling on the hit plot. The mag itself was entirely unaware of the goings-on, but since they had $, and the hit man didn't they got sued. Needless to say, those types of ads no longer appear. As far as the mag itself, goes, it's not what it once was. Lots of the best staffers, like Peter Kokalis have left for other venues. So, IMHO, it's no big loss for you to wait a while to begin buying it. |
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Posted: 5/22/2002 12:02:14 PM EDT
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Had my pic in SOF last year![:D]
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Posted: 5/22/2002 12:14:59 PM EDT
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Yeah, its not what it used to be. I have a bunch of old issues from back in the 70's and 80's with the ads from Irv Kahn, when Kokalis wrote for SoF, but now its like GSG9 called it - just another useless gun rag. If you want to get something worth your time and money, try Small Arms Review.
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Posted: 5/22/2002 12:29:33 PM EDT
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Citabria7GCBC,
Your mom seems to know a lot about SOF. Did she used to have a subscription or does she read it currently and not tell? |
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Posted: 5/22/2002 2:06:12 PM EDT
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I quit reading that magazine ever since I found they actaully sabotaged Col. Bo Gritz while he was in the middle of an operation to rescue POW's left behind in Vietnam in the early '80's.
He came very close to bringing a live one out and probably would have if SOF hadn't printed an article about Col. Gritz's whereabouts and what he was doing at the time. |
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