KEMPTON – For master muzzleloader rifle builders, horners, knife makers and other craftsman who produce items associated with the Golden Age of Muzzle Loading the last weekend in July is a time to ...

KEMPTON – For those finding a flintlock rifle under the tree Christmas Day, the calendar is their friend. Yes, while veteran flintlock hunters champ at the bit as the usual day-after-Christmas opening ...

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 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.