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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I started hunting in the 1950s, many of the people we hunted with were my dad’s age or friends of my uncles. Since they were born back in the 1920s or earlier, they often hunted with rifles and ...