Tim Claypool admired the handiwork of the craftsmen who made black powder muzzleloader rifles dating to the late 1700s and 1800s and replicas on display at a collectors show Saturday, but he was ...

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 ...

There is more than one type of big-game hunting rifle, and primitive muzzleloading rifles are very special to Dan Opp of Columbia. He loves to hunt with them and shoot competitively at monthly shoots ...

They laughed when Frank Gibbs showed up for a white-tail deer hunt on a ranch in Alabama last year armed with his primitive muzzleloader rifle. After seeing more game than anyone and shooting the ...

Contenders at the 66th annual Saunders Memorial Shoot gave it their best shot because one shot was all they got. Shooting matches at Luther Owens Park gun range in Berryville are for muzzle-loader ...

COURTLAND – Southampton County will remain off limits to hunters hoping to use black-powder rifles to shoot deer. Of the counties and municipalities in Virginia that allow hunting, Southampton is the ...

CHESTERFIELD − County police say several weapons, including black-powder rifles, were taken during an early morning break-in Sunday at a sporting goods store in the south end of the county. An email ...

It might be the closest some people get to experiencing what our forefathers did when they settled the prairie lands many years ago. That’s what several black powder rifle shooters were saying ...

PENDLETON – Drawing an elk tag in Oregon is becoming increasingly difficult each year, even in less popular spots. As an alternative, many hunters are turning to black powder rifles – also known as ...

There is a whitetail buck at the edge of a field, looking around and occasionally wagging his tail. This is not the high alert that sends deer running in all directions. This buck doesn’t detect any ...