This year the statewide flintlock season opens Thursday ... Newnames in muzzleloaders like Connecticut Valley Arms, Lyman, Traditions and even oldcompanies like Remington and Ruger were getting ...

It’s called by some “flintlock rifle season.” Muzzleloader hunters took 20,450 deer during the 2022-23 season. Of that number, 18,480 were doe and 1,970 were bucks. At first glance the buck ...

By Walt Young For the Mirror The autumn season is synonymous with the most popular hunting seasons for a majority of hunters. But for those intrepid folks willing to brave some winter weather, the ...

“I shot my first deer right around Christmas in 2018 with a flintlock. It’s a primitive feeling. It’s a neat feeling when the fire goes off.” He soon realized he needed a rifle that was ...

Various guns were used, until a true dueling pistol was officially standardized in 1777, as "a 9 or 10 inch barreled, smooth bore flintlock of 1 inch bore, carrying a ball of 48 to the pound." ...

Wickham of Philadelphia had made this smoothbore musket in 1822, and it was an obsolete flintlock. By the time of the Civil War, muskets were usually rifled and were caplock percussion guns.