With 10 days remaining until the day-after-Christmas opening of the Pennsylvania flintlock deer season – nine of them being shopping days – there is more than enough time for hunters to prepare their ...

A primitive hunting season is underway in Pennsylvania for those who enjoy winter weather and challenging firearms. “It’s really a deep-rooted connection with hunting,” Curtis Morris, owner of Morris ...

Pennsylvania is the only state that dedicates a deer season to the flintlock muzzleloader. Launched in 1974, the season runs for for three weeks after Christmas. During those weeks, hunters can punch ...

No matter how cold my hands get this week because of poor circulation caused by Type 2 diabetes, I’ll be in the woods a time or two or three for the opportunity to take a deer with one of my flintlock ...

Pennsylvania hunters have already enjoyed an archery season, special firearms season, a week-long October muzzleloader season and two weeks of rifle deer season. But for those who enjoy hunting the ...

The blackpowder rifles that come out of Hershel House’s workshop hidden in the Kentucky backwoods aren’t just exacting, made-from-scratch re-creations of true frontier guns. The home-forged springs ...

For a select few, the best gift of the holidays is the flintlock deer season. Extended firearms counties notwithstanding, this season offers shorter range diehards another chance to hunt, while, of ...

Twenty years ago, Michael Vaka’s grandfather-in-law Glen Barlow showed up at his door with a gift for his grandson-in-law — a box containing a flintlock rifle he’d bought decades before for $50 at a ...

Why was the Kentucky rifle (originally the Pennsylvania rifle) so successful? Because the long rifle evolved in response to ...

Some things just never stop being cool. Fads come and go, products and methods are constantly upgraded, but the classics never die. How many teenagers still walk around wearing Led Zeppelin T-shirts?

A new hunter once asked me, “If you could only purchase four firearms to carry you through the hunting calendar, which ones would you choose, and why?” It was an interesting question, but I sensed he ...