One of the best deer-hunting memories I have is the morning Betty and I came downstairs to a homemade breakfast prepared by Mom wearing our possible bags and powder horns and toting flintlock rifles.

The owner of a legacy firearms company will be bringing back the company’s Hawken flintlock rifles that have been popular with Pennsylvania hunters for decades. Gregg Ritz, who purchased ...

KEMPTON – For master muzzleloader rifle builders, horners, knife makers and other craftsman who produce items associated with the Golden Age of Muzzle Loading the last weekend in July is a time to ...

Pennsylvania’s flintlock-only deer season, begun in 1973, is the last of its kind in America. While most of today’s hunters tote modern in-line muzzleloaders, each January, Keystone State ...

PICKENS COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - During the American Revolution, flintlock rifles stood as both a practical tool of war and a symbol of the colonists’ determination to secure independence, ...

KEMPTON – Hard to believe how long in the tooth flintlock hunters have become since getting in on the ground floor when the flintlock deer season made its debut in the mid-1970s. Not hard to believe, ...

The marksmen gathered at Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y. were a strange-looking group, dressed in checked shirts and funny hats. One man wore a skunk pelt on his head, another sported a black sombrero with a ...