In the hands of men like Boone, Kenton, and Wetzel, the flintlock rifle helped shape North America as we know it today. Flintlock rifles won our War of Independence and went west with Lewis and Clark.

The blackpowder rifles that come out of Hershel House’s workshop hidden in the Kentucky backwoods aren’t just exacting, made-from-scratch re-creations of true frontier guns. The home-forged springs ...

Amid the rise of modern inline muzzleloaders, deer hunters in the heart of Pennsylvania are still hunting with flintlock ...

Some things just never stop being cool. Fads come and go, products and methods are constantly upgraded, but the classics never die. How many teenagers still walk around wearing Led Zeppelin T-shirts?

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 ...

Jacob Zutterman and his pal Phil Lierz had driven hundreds of miles from their homes in Eastern Kansas to the western side of the state for antelope season. Zutterman had drawn a coveted Kansas ...

We turn off the main road and onto the ice-crusted one-lane drive that meanders to the hill Dad calls the “Sheshequin Property”. It’s named after the Township it’s in, all the way on the northern ...

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 ...

Ka-boom! That’s the familiar sound hunters in the woods this time of year look forward to hearing. Monday was the first day of the three-week flintlock rifle season in Pennsylvania. It’s believed to ...