THE BIG WOODS of Pennsylvania, the final holdout state to maintain a flintlock-specific muzzleloader season, are full of tradition and smoke from the day after Christmas until the middle of January.
KEMPTON – When George Jones sang the heartbreaking lyrics asking “Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes,” he well could have been singing about the gunmakers who were building rifles when the popularity of ...
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 ...
With centerfire rifles now being permitted to hunt deer in several parts of Pennsylvania during the flintlock season, an organization wants the Game Commission to create a new early flintlock ...
PICKENS COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - During the American Revolution, flintlock rifles stood as both a practical tool of war and a symbol of the colonists’ determination to secure independence, ...
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 ...
KEMPTON – Hard to believe how long in the tooth flintlock hunters have become since getting in on the ground floor when the flintlock deer season made its debut in the mid-1970s. Not hard to believe, ...
The company plans to reintroduce the Hawken flintlock rifle, popular among Pennsylvania hunters, by 2028. The popular T/C Encore ProHunter muzzleloader, known for its interchangeable barrels, is back ...