Cheyenne Pioneer Boxes

Guns Magazine, May, 1999 by Roy Huntington

There you are at the match, Stetson placed just-so, double gun resting jauntily over your arm, Colts hanging in custom leather, $400 kneehigh boots and a frock coat that would stop traffic. You're lookin' mighty fine. When it's your turn on the line you put the guns on the loadin' table and out comes the ammo in plastic baggies. Huh? What? Talk about destroyin' the gunfighter image.

Friends, don't let this happen to you. Courtesy of Cheyenne Pioneer Products, today's gunfighter can be properly equipped with period cartridge boxes that fit right into the whole scheme of things. Their main business is in custom packaging so it was a short step for the owner, a long-time shooter and amateur historian of the Old West, to come up with this idea. They have done it first-rate with boxes that are sturdy, authentic and more than able to stand-up to many days on the trail.

Their rugged construction just means that as they get stained and tired looking they will be even better. Heck, even Hollywood likes them -- prop and wardrobe companies are buying them up.

Even people who don't shoot cowboy matches like the styling and feel of the "old" boxes. Look for .45-70 (20 rounds with a chip board divider like the originals) and 12 gauge shotgun boxes soon to be available.