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 ...

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: ...

HOPKINS — For some hunters, Michigan’s muzzleloader season represents one of the last opportunities to harvest a deer for the year. But for others, it symbolizes something else entirely. “That thing ...

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 ...

If that old Beverly Hillbilly Jed Clampett hadn’t stumbled on black gold and been transformed into a multi-millionaire back in the early 1960s, he eventually might have become a customer of ...

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 ...

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 ...

KEARNEY — The Muzzleloaders Trade Show allows participants to better understand the culture of traders and trappers found in the West during the 1840s through the 1860s. The United Nebraska ...

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, ...