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 ...

The “primitive” longrifle (muzzleloader) was America’s first significant design contribution to the firearms world. Long, graceful, and accurate, Golden Age longrifles (circa 1780 to 1840) rendered ...

MARINETTE COUNTY (WLUK) -- Even though the nine-day gun deer season is in the books, those looking for a different kind of outing are taking to the field around the state. For 10 days immediately ...

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 ...

Traditional muzzleloader hunters will have a new nine-day deer and elk season under a bill nearing passage in the Montana Legislature. The Senate voted to give initial approval Tuesday to House Bill ...

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 ...

“But the traditional muzzleloaders don’t want to see that, because they think it will bring more guys into the woods to hunt with muzzleloaders.” It probably would, and with scopes and higher-tech ...

A bill implementing a traditional muzzleloader hunting season in Montana has been signed into law by Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte. House Bill 242, from Rep. Caleb Hinkle, R-Belgrade, establishes a ...

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 ...

MARYLAND - Maryland deer hunters using muzzleloading firearms will have the chance to return to the outdoors tomorrow as the second half of muzzleloader deer season is set to resume. With the first ...

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 ...

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, ...