The darkness lifts ever so slowly. The curtain call of another deer season slowly emerges from the inky black to reveal stark, naked trees. Below, the last of their leaves pile onto the forest floor.

Even with inline muzzleloaders, more is not always better when it comes to an effective hunting load for deer hunting. When hunting deer with a traditional flintlock ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hunting with a muzzleloader can be a pain. Even if you don’t use an old-school flintlock or caplock, you probably don't look forward to the time of year when you have to trade your deer rifle for an ...

One of the many great things about muzzleloading rifles is that a model exists for any level of hunting or shooting that you desire. If you want a traditional flintlock rifle that fires round balls ...

Hunting deer with a muzzleloader is a great way to put some extra venison in the freezer this fall. The definition of a muzzleloader is any firearm that is loaded from the muzzle and includes the ...

Right on time, October arrived with a refreshing burst of cool weather, and that makes hunters excited about muzzleloader deer season. Muzzleloader season, as we call it, is the highly anticipated ...

The timing was right, even if the results weren’t. Going into fall, Pennsylvania adopted its first muzzleloader season for black bears. It overlapped with an antlerless deer season in mid-October, a ...

You couldn’t have rolled a pickup truck full of beer cans off the mountain and created more commotion than the bull elk was making. I’d heard him bugle, checked the wind, snuck closer, and ultimately ...

Beginning Saturday, the Pennsylvania Game Commission is providing muzzleloader hunters with an opportunity that would have seemed like a dream just five years ago. That is the opening day of the seven ...

Our first frost ushered in archery season, and as I sit in my blind, located on a hillside, I can see the activity around me quite well. The gray squirrels and chipmunks have been scurrying through ...