** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** The advent of black powder changed ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. With a fiery burst and cloud of black smoke, Montana’s first heritage muzzleloader hunt is set to ...

For someone who anticipates the annual celebration of traditional muzzleloaders in general and flintlock rifles in particular at the Dixon Gunmaker’s Fair, which concludes today at the world’s largest ...

It’s been almost 40 years since Dave Ehrig was bitten by the muzzleloading bug. Since then, Ehrig has toted single-shot rifles across North American in pursuit of deer, caribou, elk, bear, turkey and ...

BENSON -- As he has for many years, John T. Hutchinson will be hosting fellow muzzleloader enthusiasts on his hunting lands south of Benson for this year's muzzleloader deer hunt. Be certain of this: ...

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that muzzleloaders use all-lead bullets, open sights and loose black or synthetic black powder. » The weapons must have exposed, pivoting hammers and exposed ignition using only flint or ...

Gary DeAustin got hooked on muzzleloaders the first time he fired one of the old-time rifles more than three decades ago. So did Jim Townsend. "I haven't fired a modern one since," said Townsend, ...

A new study found that traditional bullets for muzzleloading rifles and black powder rifle cartridges fragment less upon impact and may leave far fewer lead fragments in game than a modern ...