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 ...

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, ...

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Rod Douglas fires a shot with his pre-revolutionary war flintlock during a gathering of Flathead Muzzleloaders Association near Columbia Falls Saturday, Dec. 4. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake) A ...

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.

For those seeking what is arguably the ultimate challenge in bagging a fall turkey with a rifle, think muzzleloader. Already a very strong argument can be made for the wild turkey being the most ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LOGAN, Utah — A northern Utah event straight out of the Old West is attracting more people with its mountain-man appeal, organizers said. About 50 people ...

MIDDLETOWN — Roy Lauth was shooting a 1776 Revolutionary War flintlock, George Nichols was firing a Kentucky rifle from the same era and Bob King held a Hawken from the “Mountain Men” period of the ...

The sweet aroma of burnt gunpowder tickled the noses of shooters at the 64th annual Saunders Memorial Muzzle-loader Shoot in Berryville. Clouds of smoke drifted over the gun range during the shoot ...