A unique primitive hunting season will soon be underway in Pennsylvania. With a click of a trigger and the release of a flint stone against steel, black power explodes to propel a round ball through a ...

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, ...

A Crawford County hunter gets large buck while hunting in the late deer season. Here's why it's a rare accomplishment.

BERTHOUD — As the temperature climbed over 100 degrees on a recent afternoon, 17-year-old Brittany Cawthra used a ramrod to pound a 50-caliber lead ball tightly into her traditional Thompson/Center ...

Of all the activities offered each August at the Schuylkill County Sportsmen’s Association Women’s Outdoors Day at Friedensburg Fish and Game, perhaps none is more fascinating, and at the same time ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just as the argument is heating up over whether Nevada should legalize rifle scopes for use during muzzleloader-only hunting seasons, the company that turned the muzzleloading world upside-down with ...