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The Old Shotgun News Newspaper / Classifieds
June 30, 2025, 08:08 PM
cajunmuscleThe Old Shotgun News Newspaper / Classifieds
Anyone else miss these old school newspapers? I remember salivating over the pages and pages of surplus gear and guns in the classifieds. I LOVED that classified ads where the company jammed as many items they could on the page. Anything like that still around. That had to be in like mid to late 80's when this was around?
June 30, 2025, 08:22 PM
arfmelI used to get those out of the trash can at the Post Office, where they were thrown away by whoever picked up the mail for the local hardware store. I ordered a couple of used revolvers from J&G Sales advertising in SGN.
June 30, 2025, 08:23 PM
12131Oh yeah, salivating is right. It’s still around, though, just different name, Firearms News.
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June 30, 2025, 08:24 PM
SchmelbyYep. I would get a copy at the book store once in a while in the 80's. Wish I would have saved a copy.
June 30, 2025, 08:30 PM
WaterburyBobYes! I subscribed to it for many years.
Picked up several guns from the ads.
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June 30, 2025, 08:32 PM
PoacherLoved it and miss it.
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"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Teddy Roosevelt June 30, 2025, 08:36 PM
wrightdThat was a fun rag. Forgot all about it. Nice memory.
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Wile E. Coyote School of DIY Disaster June 30, 2025, 08:40 PM
maxwayneIt was great reading.
June 30, 2025, 09:20 PM
Lt CHEGThose were definitely the good ole days!
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kkinaSay, is that a page from the August 3, 2009
Shotgun News featuring an ad for the Accu-strut?
Shotgun News by
kpkina, on Flickr
June 30, 2025, 10:30 PM
newtoSig765I read it a lot during the 1970's and 1980's, miss it.
I ran across an old copy of Trade-A-Plane a couple years ago, one ad was for an original Wright aircraft engine, made by either Orville or Wilbur, I don't remember which one. I kept it.
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June 30, 2025, 10:32 PM
David LeeSGN and Hemmings Motor News were the best. I had some nice, foreign mil surp rifles I bought from sellers there. Thousands of Browning links for 08, 06 and 5.56. I had new cloth belts for the old Browning water cooled machine guns. I went after a extremely nice linker at SOG or Gun Parts Inc. But they were sold out. Oh they were good days.
June 30, 2025, 11:40 PM
k5blazerGood old Shotgun News. Bought my first revolver from an ad. Was a subscriber and would take it to work so a few of us could salivate.
July 01, 2025, 12:08 AM
newtoSig765I just remembered that when dewats were still legal there was an ad for Swedish K's for about $250. I was too cheap to get one and a few years later they were illegal. Missed a chance to get my favorite SMG.
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
-- H L Mencken
I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is.
-- JALLEN 10/18/18
July 01, 2025, 03:00 AM
400mThat’s where I found my P6. I enjoyed reading SGN.
July 01, 2025, 03:00 AM
sonnydazequote:
Originally posted by 12131:
Oh yeah, salivating is right. It’s still around, though, just different name, Firearms News.
I used to spend hours on that paper.
Monk, you are really on top of things.
thx.
July 01, 2025, 06:10 AM
Fire AwayGot my first P226 from a Shotgun news add. Great bathroom reading material too.
July 01, 2025, 06:29 AM
bob rambergI bought my first pistol, a .22 cal. Berretta 70S, from SGN.
Bob
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July 01, 2025, 06:32 AM
hberttmankYes, I remember Shotgun News. I never had a subscription but a buddy did and he gave me issues all the time. Have not thought about that for years.
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YooperSigsIt has morphed into a magazine called Firearms News.
I think.
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