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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:28:24 PM EDT
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Kinda sounds like BudK, but not sure if that was around in the '80s.
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:29:14 PM EDT
[#2]
I ordered my shitty survival knife out of the back of boys life.
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:29:17 PM EDT
[#3]
We got a catalog like that (for some reason) called Shomer-Tec in the mid '90s.
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:29:29 PM EDT
[#4]
Did they have nunchucks, x ray glasses and potato pellet pistols?
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:30:25 PM EDT
[#5]
SOF.
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:30:35 PM EDT
[#6]
I only ordered the Sea Monkeys.
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:31:38 PM EDT
[#7]
In the 80’s? All of them.
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:31:41 PM EDT
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When I was a kid in the 80s, our local video store had a case of throwing stars and knives and shit right by the martial arts flicks. Brilliant marketing. I don't know how many $4 throwing stars I had, but it was a lot.
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:33:04 PM EDT
[#9]
Asian world of martial arts?
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:33:11 PM EDT
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Quoted: I remember back in the late 80’s there was a magazine/mail order catalog that my cousin used to get to order all sorts of cool stuff for a kid. Not toys but stuff like stink bombs, knives, wooden swords, ninja throwing stars. It was better than the Sears Christmas catalog to a 10 year old boy. Seems like it was black and white, mail order form in the middle. Just thought of that and haven’t had that memory in years. We also used to tear out the post cards from a field and stream to send in for a free can of skoal bandits. Kids these days will never know the fun of checking the mailbox before your parents for weeks at a time to see if your bandits arrived that you made up a fake name but used your address for. Damn that takes me back. I remember a magazine like that in ‘85 or so. Climbing claws, caltrops, nunchucks, butterfly knives, all the ninja shit. |
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:33:41 PM EDT
[#11]
U.S. Cavalry? Soldier of Fortune?
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:35:50 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:37:49 PM EDT
[#13]
Sounds very BudK
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:38:12 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:38:33 PM EDT
[#15]
Johnson-Smith Catalog but that was more gag stuff. I used to love ordering nickel and dime stuff back in the 70's because that was all I could afford.
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:38:41 PM EDT
[#16]
As mentioned, I was going to say AWMA (Asian World of Martial Arts) and BudK.
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:39:11 PM EDT
[#17]
I ordered my survival knife and ninja stars out of shotgun news in 1984. My mom and dad must have thought I was mental.??
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:39:14 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:39:45 PM EDT
[#19]
I ordered some stars out of Shotgun News back in the day.
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:40:25 PM EDT
[#20]
Blackbelt Magazine
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:45:09 PM EDT
[#21]
Smokey Mountain Knife Works
Got a blowgun and wrist rocket from them as well ETA: not so much of the stink bomb stuff though |
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:45:30 PM EDT
[#22]
Any magazine geared towards boys had all sort of cool sounding junk to buy in the back. Myself, I bought a shity bullwhip from the back of boys life or some scouting magazine. Then we did occasionally get some catalog full of China type junk with fake dog shit and throwing stars but it have no idea what it was called. I suspect there were several versions selling the same stuff.
That bullwhip smelled rotten and fell apart. Some damn how I ended up getting my parents to let me get a real one from the tack shop because I was Indiana Jones since I was to old to be Lion-O anymore. |
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:47:14 PM EDT
[#23]
I bought my first set of shurikens right after the Kung Fu tv series came out when I was a kid. There wasn't a tree that was safe within the confines of my housing project. I was like a little friggin' Jewish Master Po.
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:48:18 PM EDT
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Might have been Budk, I was hoping a name would ring a bell but nothing jumps out at me so far. I remember having a special little cloth pull string bag with throwing stars and trading with friends. A few years later I started getting SMKW magazines and they were good too but not the same as these that I remember from the 80’s.
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:49:44 PM EDT
[#25]
In the Seventies it was “ Boys Life”.
In the eighties Soldier of Fortune, Shotgum News. |
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:50:22 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Any magazine geared towards boys had all sort of cool sounding junk to buy in the back. Myself, I bought a shity bullwhip from the back of boys life or some scouting magazine. Then we did occasionally get some catalog full of China type junk with fake dog shit and throwing stars but it have no idea what it was called. I suspect there were several versions selling the same stuff. That bullwhip smelled rotten and fell apart. Some damn how I ended up getting my parents to let me get a real one from the tack shop because I was Indiana Jones since I was to old to be Lion-O anymore. I had a bull whip till I popped my brother, mom took it away to hide it till we got older, but I never saw it again 
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Posted: 12/4/2020 11:59:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Asian world of martial arts? My mom use to take me down to their Philly location every so often and let me spend my allowance. I must of hand 100 throwing stars and several nunchucks. Those were the days! Wish I still had that shit! |
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:02:49 AM EDT
[#28]
Black Belt Magazine?
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:03:23 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:03:58 AM EDT
[#30]
"Things You Never Knew Existed" by Johnson Smith
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:04:12 AM EDT
[#31]
Brigade Quartermasters had that stuff
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:04:27 AM EDT
[#32]
Smoky Mountain Knife Works has a good bit
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:05:54 AM EDT
[#33]
Hard to say exactly. That shit was everywhere back then .
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:06:48 AM EDT
[#34]
Century martial arts and Sportsman’s Guide are all I remember.
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:07:01 AM EDT
[#35]
Black Belt back in the day.
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:08:07 AM EDT
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Asian World of Marshal Arts (as mentioned), Dolan’s and Brigade Quartermaster were the best. AWMA and BQ had great color catalogs... Along with US Cavalry.
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:09:21 AM EDT
[#37]
Shomer Tech and US Cav.
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:11:44 AM EDT
[#38]
In the late 80’s I made my own throwing stars in jr hight shop class. Grab a sheet of metal. Use tin snips to cut out a star. Sharpen edges on a grinder. Throw stars into the ceiling and leave them stuck there. Repeat.
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:12:31 AM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Brigade Quartermasters had that stuff I used to love that magazine |
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:12:40 AM EDT
[#40]
AWMA
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:13:57 AM EDT
[#41]
Parallex?
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:18:05 AM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I only ordered the Sea Monkeys. 
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:18:42 AM EDT
[#43]
The 80s were wild man
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:18:49 AM EDT
[#44]
Mall Ninja Digest.
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:22:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The 80s were wild man surplus stores had surplus stuff, not Chinese stuff. |
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:26:02 AM EDT
[#46]
flea market
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:29:32 AM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: As mentioned, I was going to say AWMA (Asian World of Martial Arts) and BudK. |
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:31:54 AM EDT
[#48]
I always got mine at a local pawn shop.
I just assumed that as I aged into adulthood I'd need lots of throwing stars and butterfly knives and Rambo survival knives. My guy also sold civil war relics, like buttons and bullets and swords and confederate currency. He also sold these itty-bitty little miniature (inert) bombs that were like 3" long, maybe less, that weighed about an ounce. I have no clue what they were. I always assumed they were some sort of military surplus. |
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:36:19 AM EDT
[#49]
No clue , but I sure as hell remember waiting for my free Skoal Bandits
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Posted: 12/5/2020 12:37:01 AM EDT
[#50]
That shit was available EVERYWHERE. I think I remember seeing ads for that kind of stuff in numerous magazines, from comic books to wrestling magazines to martial arts oriented magazines. And I did my share of ordering too. I am convinced my third grade teacher thought he had a class made up of 50% ninjas. Hell, he probably thought he was a ninja himself by the end of the school year, considering how many assorted throwing stars and other H2H weapons he had confiscated from us. The 1980's were cool. I took things to school with me on a regular basis back then that would cause lockdowns and SWAT deployments these days.
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