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The “primitive” longrifle (muzzleloader) was America’s first significant design contribution to the firearms world. Long, graceful, and accurate, Golden Age longrifles (circa 1780 to 1840) rendered ...

Connecticut Valley Arms was formed in 1971 to manufacture traditional sidelock muzzleloaders that were offered fully ...

KEMPTON – There are those who, even if not saying it in so many in words, consider Chuck Dixon the father of traditional muzzleloader hunting, shooting and rifle building in Pennsylvania. By the time ...

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 ...

Traditional muzzleloader hunters will have a new nine-day deer and elk season under a bill nearing passage in the Montana Legislature. The Senate voted to give initial approval Tuesday to House Bill ...

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 ...

“But the traditional muzzleloaders don’t want to see that, because they think it will bring more guys into the woods to hunt with muzzleloaders.” It probably would, and with scopes and higher-tech ...

A bill implementing a traditional muzzleloader hunting season in Montana has been signed into law by Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte. House Bill 242, from Rep. Caleb Hinkle, R-Belgrade, establishes a ...

Gary DeAustin got hooked on muzzleloaders the first time he fired one of the old-time rifles more than three decades ago. So did Jim Townsend. "I haven't fired a modern one since," said Townsend, ...

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 ...