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 ...

FAIRVIEW — Last week, I had one of the more unusual grouse openers in my bird hunting history. I joined a group of traditional muzzleloaders from throughout Michigan for a grouse-and-squirrel opener ...

KEMPTON – There are those who, even if not saying it in so many in words, consider Chuck Dixon the father of traditional muzzleloader hunting, shooting and rifle building in Pennsylvania. By the time ...

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 ...

Maryland’s annual Primitive Deer Hunt will take place statewide February 2-4, 2026, providing hunters a three-day opportunity ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...