which subsequently traveled through a tiny hole in the barrel and lit a larger charge of gunpowder, the explosion of which shot the lead ball through the barrel and toward its target. Here was the ...

One of the best deer-hunting memories I have is the morning Betty and I came downstairs to a homemade breakfast prepared by Mom wearing our possible bags and powder horns and toting flintlock rifles.

For those who approach deer hunting with equal parts of appreciation for field sports and an obsession with history, the flintlock muzzleloader season was a godsend when created more than 40 years ago ...

Ask anyone who has ever been involved with the reenacting of American frontier history, or competitive primitive shooting sports, or collecting of antiques, or the evolution of the Pennsylvania Long ...

The marksmen gathered at Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y. were a strange-looking group, dressed in checked shirts and funny hats. One man wore a skunk pelt on his head, another sported a black sombrero with a ...