BERTHOUD — As the temperature climbed over 100 degrees on a recent afternoon, 17-year-old Brittany Cawthra used a ramrod to pound a 50-caliber lead ball tightly into her traditional Thompson/Center ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. With a fiery burst and cloud of black smoke, Montana’s first heritage muzzleloader hunt is set to ...

Muzzleloader deer hunting has come a long way. And if that bothers some blackpowder fans, it delights a still-growing crowd of muzzleloading fans clutching more dependable, more powerful firearms.

HOPKINS — For some hunters, Michigan’s muzzleloader season represents one of the last opportunities to harvest a deer for the year. But for others, it symbolizes something else entirely. “That thing ...

Right on time, October arrived with a refreshing burst of cool weather, and that makes hunters excited about muzzleloader deer season. Muzzleloader season, as we call it, is the highly anticipated ...

If that old Beverly Hillbilly Jed Clampett hadn’t stumbled on black gold and been transformed into a multi-millionaire back in the early 1960s, he eventually might have become a customer of ...

I often get asked how to get a muzzleloader to shoot accurately. Muzzleloaders are accurate to be sure, but it takes some time on the range to get them shooting straight, shot after shot, and it's ...

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 ...

Maryland ran experimental split muzzleloader deer hunting seasons last October and December, and while there was a good deal of concern among hunters before the hunts took effect, the experiment ...

Maryland’s second muzzleloader deer hunting season runs from Dec. 20, 2025, through Jan. 3, 2026, giving hunters a two-week ...

that muzzleloaders use all-lead bullets, open sights and loose black or synthetic black powder. » The weapons must have exposed, pivoting hammers and exposed ignition using only flint or ...

Right on time, October arrived with a refreshing burst of cool weather, and that makes hunters excited about muzzleloader deer season. Muzzleloader season, as we call it, is the highly anticipated ...