Frontier Partisans

The Adventurers, Rangers and Scouts Who Fought the Battles of Empire

Firearms Of The Frontier Partisans — The Tactical Lever Action

November 24, 2021, by JimC

  Over the past couple of years, the Tactical Lever Action trend has heated up. It’s not just a matter of “blacking out” traditional lever guns; riflemen are indulging in race-gun builds — free-floating M-LOK handguards, picatinny rails for mounting optics including reflex sights.   It’s not clear what exactly has made this a … [Read more...] about Firearms Of The Frontier Partisans — The Tactical Lever Action

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Firearms Of The Frontier Partisans — CZ 600 Series

November 16, 2021, by JimC

The venerable Czech firearms legend CZ has taken a page from of the buccaneering book of the likes of Sir Henry Morgan, as Matt Foster notes in Outdoor Life Magazine:  “..[W]ith the CZ 600, the company is burning its boats on the beach, so to speak, and isn’t looking back.” The CZ 600 Series, introduced this week and available in 2022, is a … [Read more...] about Firearms Of The Frontier Partisans — CZ 600 Series

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Firearms Of The Frontier Partisans — Big Butts

November 10, 2021, by JimC

“...[F]owlers originated among Europe’s aristocracy as a sporting weapon, but became a necessary tool for survival in the American wilderness.” — Tom Grinslade Eighteenth Century American Fowlers—The First Guns Made In America  “I like big butts and I cannot lie...” — Sir Mix-A-Lot The most significant firearm on the early Colonial … [Read more...] about Firearms Of The Frontier Partisans — Big Butts

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Skull & Bones

October 29, 2021, by JimC

    The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out The ones that crawl in are lean and thin The ones that crawl out are fat and stout Your eyes fall in and your teeth fall out Your brains come tumbling down your snout Be merry my friends Be merry * OK, so, yeah, I have a bit of a skull-and-crossbones fetish. Aye, … [Read more...] about Skull & Bones

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The Long Reign Of The Frontier Flintlock

August 1, 2021, by JimC

The South African historian and historical reenactor MC Heunis recently posted on social media a shot of himself with an antelope taken with a replica of a Dutch flintlock. He noted that the weapon would have been common among Boer frontiersmen in the period 1835-45. That got me to pondering upon the long reign of the flintlock on the frontiers … [Read more...] about The Long Reign Of The Frontier Flintlock

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Ah, Poor Billy…

July 23, 2021, by JimC

Mi compadre Lynn Woodward has insisted that we break out my original Song of the .44 this summer. The song recounts the short life and violent death of Billy the Kid. I wrote it years ago, late one night after watching The Godfather for the umpteenth time. I’d been reading Robert Utley’s Kid bio, and realized that the Lincoln County War was just a … [Read more...] about Ah, Poor Billy…

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The Essence Of Perfection

June 29, 2021, by JimC

Tom Jeff Eley scouted up a piece from the John Rigby & Co. Campfire that he well knew would, well... trip my trigger. It is well-known that I am smitten with Rigby rifles, for their historical value, their aesthetic, and their legendary function. We were planning to visit the Rigby showroom in London on our COVID-aborted trip there in 2020. … [Read more...] about The Essence Of Perfection

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Firearms Of The Frontier Partisans — Philip Creamer, Gunsmith

May 23, 2021, by JimC

* The Frontier Partisan Muse has sent me back out onto the Great Plains and into the Shining Mountains, in a blinding flare of synchronicity. I’ll explain that in more detail in a later post. Some cool stuff... I was actually headed back to Africa (and I’ll get there; the country north of the Limpopo River is calling), but I knew I had to take … [Read more...] about Firearms Of The Frontier Partisans — Philip Creamer, Gunsmith

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Podcast Episode 1 — Kit Carson’s People

December 7, 2020, by JimC

The first episode of The Frontier Partisans Podcast is up an on the trail. It’s a 20-minute exploration of the culture that borned Kit Carson: The Scots-Irish were a frontier people. Hailing from the contested borderlands of England and Scotland, they migrated in the 17th Century to Ulster (Northern Ireland); and many then moved on to the … [Read more...] about Podcast Episode 1 — Kit Carson’s People

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A Tip O’ The Hat To Lynn Woodward

November 16, 2020, by JimC

Look, we’ve all heard the saying that you can’t judge a book by its cover — and we all know it’s BS. Doesn’t matter how brilliant your words are if the presentation doesn’t catch they eye and maybe get the pulse rate up a bit. It’s a cinch that Frontier Partisans would not be what it is without the work of Lynn Woodward. She designed this blog … [Read more...] about A Tip O’ The Hat To Lynn Woodward

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