Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Soldier of Fortune magazine.....

ofcourse ive seen it on newstands forever and occationally picked up a copy.....what is everyones opinion of it? never hear much about it.....recently picked up 30 of them from 85-91 off an auction site for less than a buck each shipped and since im always on the look out for new firearms related reading i thought what the hell....

flipping through a few i noticed that these are doing the time when our own sharpsguy was the knife/blade editor for the magazine....having met Bill at the hog hunt i cant imagine he would throw his lot in with a bunch of guys not worth the time....

Used to take it, had some decent info in it.

Subscribed back in the 80s and 90s. Was a good source for world news back then.

I'm sure TRH will chime in...

Haven't read it since early eighties. I remember the donation drive to buy a bullet to kill a commie for mommy. There use to be some hardcore stuff in the magazine.

Used to see it over here from time to time..

Odd good article, but mostly seemed to be aimed at the "Wannabe's"..

The pics seemed to show guys in fatigues, complete with "Magnum" 'taches, but were somehow more "Village People" than ex-USMC or similar..

I always figured back in the day (prior to the internet) subscribing to Soldier of Fortune magazine was a quick way to get a file with your name on it in the FBI

He is the editor don't you know?

That made me grin!

I bet Jorge would have posted that when someone said something about the government listening to everyone's phone calls and flying drones around to spy on them.

That's what he waits for - to discredit someone with his vast knowledge of how things actually are.

When I lived in Los Angeles, I had a good friend who had been a Marine in a recon platoon, serving in Vietnam. He was wounded twice. After his service, he later became a successful documentary producer in L.A.

He told me he went to one of the SoF conventions in Las Vegas, thinking he might run into some former Marines he knew. I believe it was the second or third one they put on.

He said he was wearing a nice sport coat, button down shirt, slacks, polished shoes, etc. Everyone there was wearing cammies and most were overweight, and far too young to have been in Vietnam. The few he talked to had not even been in the military but were sporting all the "wannabee" accessories.

My friend said it was a farce. He never went to another SoF Conventon. He did say he won several hundred dollars at the Blackjack tables so the trip was not a total loss.

I didn't know SoF was still in business.

L.W.

Magazine was sued in the 80's for running a classified ad for the completion of "high risk assignments", which turned out to include murder for hire. Can't remember how it turned out, but the readership was likely stereotyped pretty quick.

Do you normally pause and think before responding? (rhetorical question). BTW, where is the proof of the government actually listening to ALL of our conversations or the FBI's list of SOF subscribers? (source please). Snowdon's apparently been remiss in providing that.

these older ones are more interesting than the couple of new ones ive picked up in the last 10 years.....course part of thats prolly cause i met Bill a few months ago so reading his articles is interesting and then there is the stuff on the Soviets in Afghanistan so thats interesting given the context of today.....seems alot more on firearms and focusing on different military groups world wide than "hey look what i did" articles that ive seen in newer editions....

I can't compete with that wit

if thats the case why are you on this site......if they are keeping lists this site is near as good as any for getting your name on a list....

heck, from the looks of some posters here, they are creating their own list of names to send to the government.

I read a few in the 80's. All I remember is the pictures of dead people with horrendous wounds and the publisher's little sojourn to Afghanistan fighting alongside the people we are now fighting against. Back then they were known as mujahideen.

Never saw a copy. But I love my memory of how it came about and what it soon became.

The guy who started it suggested it to my boss, who sneered at him and impolitely told him to get lost. The guy went ahead on his own � got the backing that he needed and produced a magazine that soon far out-stripped ours in paid circulation.

A later colleague of mine pretty accurately described my boss as "equal parts idiot and ass hole."