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| I bought one at the corner drug store when I was a kid, pre-high school, every time a new edition came out (IIRC, it was every two weeks).
Read just about every word in it in every edition until I went off to the Army in '65 and returned in '68. I subscribed to it after I got home for years.
As a boy I never could come up with the $ to buy one of those 1891 Argentine Mausers ($19.95), but finally got the $5 to buy the Bayonet for it through Shotgun News.
A few years after I finished Law School, I got the Argentine Mauser from my LGS who got it from some guy's widow who got it from SGN (IIRC). It was nearly mint and shot really well with 7.65 Argentine reloads.
I miss the SGN and those days of my life.
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| Oh, how do I miss the good old days. I found out about SGN in the early 90's. I was heavy into HK back then and scored a couple of great HK's from all over the country. I recall that I subscribed finally and my issues were sent to me USPS Priority. Until then I would have to get the latest issue at a place called Tower Records & Books. I always loved the look on the clerk's face when I would pay for SGN, she didn't approve, lol
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| quote: Originally posted by YooperSigs: It has morphed into a magazine called Firearms News. I think.
Correct. Same kind of stuff just made like a magazine now. I got a sweetheart deal so I subscribed. I am pretty sure it was 12 issues for around $12. It is pretty expensive to get it off the newsstands. |
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| I loved SGN! Dad would bring one home occasionally and I would spend hours going through it.
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| Oh, I LOVED the Shotgun News! I waited for that new edition and also mooned over the specials, lol. Did get some good deals from the ads too. |
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| I haven’t seen it for sale in such a long time, I had just assumed it was out of publication years ago. I spent a lot of time daydreaming about the stuff in those ads.
No one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.- Mark Twain
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| Wow glad you guys remembered this as well. Anyone got a copy still laying around ? I’d love to see a pic of one of the old ad pages. They would Jam as many items / guns on the page as they could . Sideways , crooked , tiny it didn’t matter. They were using every inch of the page to advertise their goods. Damn . Good old days. |
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