Rick Schwertfeger keeps tormenting me with erotica from John Rigby & Co.’s launch of their Highland Stalker rifle. It’s doubtless a bit of cold-served revenge for my nagging him to purchase a CZ Mannlicher .22. Note for the record that I am leading him into the temptation of spending around $500. The rifle he’s dangling in front of me runs a … [Read more...]
Stuff That Works — Cabela’s Windbreaker
By Paul McNamee, Captain, Frontier Partisans New England Ranging Company My wife and I have a long running joke/tradition: We never go on vacation without buying a new sweatshirt. It’s not that sweatshirts are our favorite form of souvenir. It’s that we invariably under-pack and find ourselves a bit chilled. One year, on our annual Maine beach … [Read more...]
Lowbrow Skeltons Of The Weird West
The whole Day of the Dead aesthetic trips my trigger. Marilyn, too. Maybe it’s time for us to get tattoos. Love this guy’s stuff. How could I not? David Lozeau has a quirky, character-driven painting style that wraps Day of the Dead iconography in a Wild West aesthetic, balances historical accuracy and Lowbrow absurdity, and blends fine art … [Read more...]
‘Keep Her Clean, General!’ — Mariano Medina’s Rifle
Mariano Medina was a tough hombre. My first knowledge of this Mexican Mountain Man came from the book Crow Killer, which is a highly unreliable compendium of fact and legend about John “Liver-Eatin”” Johnson. That book is such a tangled mess of fact/fiction/folklore that it’s impossible to know what’s authentic. Was Mariano a deadly friend of … [Read more...]
Stuff That Works — A Frontier Partisan Gets Kilt
Ever since Utilikilt hit the scene in Seattle back in the early 2000s, I’ve wanted a “utility kilt.” Yeah, the phenomenon was kind of a hipster thing, but I didn’t care. I thought the concept was fantastic, badass and, well, utilitarian. But the damn things were priced way beyond what I was willing to pay. The market has since worked its magic — … [Read more...]
Zombie Tools — Welcome To The Post-Apocalytic Jungle
A while back, one of you fine Frontier Partisans mentioned an outfit named Zombie Tools. I completely missed the Zombie Apocalypse bandwagon and actually find the whole trope tiresome, so I never followed up. My bad. I love these guys. Zombie Tools is a band of brothers formed under the auspices of the trickster god Loki, bound together by a … [Read more...]
Ye Banished Privateers
Let’s drink, let’s fight, let’s fornicate by harbor light… Who could resist such an invitation — served up by a winsome wench smudged with black powder? Come all ye Frontier Partisans and listen here to me — this is what the world needs: A Swedish pirate folk band that plays music melodically inspired by traditional Celtic and Scandinavian … [Read more...]
Big Hats And Tall Boots — On The Persistence Of Manly Attire
It has become evident in recent decades that masculinity is under siege. We need not go into the sordid sociological details here — the evidence is a mere Google search away. In a world where the male romper is a “thing,” it might be tempting to give in to despair at the state of manhood in the West, as reflected in “acceptable” male attire. Ah, … [Read more...]
Stuff That Works — Becker BK9
I’m a knife guy. Large knives, small knives; fixed blades, folders — I loves ’em all. It’s a fundamental tool and I am never without one. I am firmly of the conviction that a man is not properly dressed unless he’s carrying a blade. I own number of fine big blades, but my go-to knife for the heavy stuff is the Becker BK 9. It’s not the finest … [Read more...]
So You Wannabe an Outlaw
“I was out to unapologetically ‘channel’ Waylon as best as I could. This record was all about me on the back pick-up of a Fender Telecaster on an entire record for the first time in my life. The singing part of it is a little different. I certainly don’t sound like Waylon Jennings.” — Steve Earle If I’m a little hard to find on the weekend … [Read more...]
