Bledsoe's Muster, Raid on the Kentucky and Other Announcements

     Well after a great immersion event this past spring, we are ready to announce next years. 

    Raid on the Kentucky will build off of this past years success and be more of a force on force military style campaign event. Our goal is a 20 plus man company so now is the time to get those kits squared away and be looking towards the future. More details will roll out as we get closer. Registration can be found here. As always, include a photo of your kit. 

    In September of this year, we are hosting the revamping of the rifle frolic at Bledsoe's Fort in Tennessee. This is a juried event and registration can be found here. This event will be a great experience and will feature a militia muster, rifle frolic, trade blankets, and good evening socializing. 

     We're also doing another shirt, this time with Kobuck's blessing. He found this quote years ago it became the slogan of the old ACM. Pre-Orders can be made here!  

    We've started publishing a physical dimension to the blog, a quarterly zine. For those who don't know, zine is short for magazine and is usually a small, self published and about whatever topic you want it to be. Zines were popular during the punk movement and now can be found on a wide variety of topics. So being an old punk rock dude, I thought the Shirttail Mess needed one. They'll have articles and such along with some irreverent humor and shenanigans. Just something fun to get in the mail, and I don't know about you but I love getting cool stuff in the mail. 

    In other news, you might have noticed a new feature up in the right hand corner of the blog if you're reading this on a desktop. If you're on your phone you have to switch to desktop mode. You can become a Patron on the blog for $5 a month. I'm really wanting to produce more written material here and also expand the presence of the blog onto YouTube and such. I've got several cool projects in mind and I hope you'll enjoy them! If you become a patron, you'll also get the following perks: 

-Subscription to the Zine (4 a year)

-Your name on the blog as a patron 

-Exclusive patron merchandise (stickers etc.) 

And whatever else I think of as it grows. 

 This blog has been a joy to write along with my best buddy Matthew Fennewald and now my wonderful wife Eileen,  and I'm always amazed as I travel around who has read it. People I've never even met and people who it has helped inspire. And that's the whole goal. Inspiring others to get out in the woods and enjoy history. 

 I'm really looking forward to the future!