Chris Roades tagged a huge 10-pointer with a flintlock rifle on Jan. 1. The estimated 170-inch buck should be a new state ...

The owner of a legacy firearms company will be bringing back the company’s Hawken flintlock rifles that have been popular with Pennsylvania hunters for decades. Gregg Ritz, who purchased ...

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 ...

A Pa. hunter passed on several bucks in bow and rifle seasons with the hope that he would see a big buck that was in the area ...

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 ...

A Crawford County hunter gets large buck while hunting in the late deer season. Here's why it's a rare accomplishment.

Ka-boom! That’s the familiar sound hunters in the woods this time of year look forward to hearing. Monday was the first day of the three-week flintlock rifle season in Pennsylvania. It’s believed to ...

We turn off the main road and onto the ice-crusted one-lane drive that meanders to the hill Dad calls the “Sheshequin Property”. It’s named after the Township it’s in, all the way on the northern ...

sabot or Powerbelt bullet is permitted. Last year 35,860 deer (including 1,250 buck) were taken during the flintlock season in Pennsylvania. That included 10 buck and 700 doe in Luzerne County, ...

Early one recent morning, during the Maryland early muzzleloader deer season, I was standing in my portable treestand on a piece of public hunting ground in Frederick County. I cradled my flintlock ...