At 63, armorer R. Vern Crofoot likes 1870s percussion cap guns well enough, but it is Revolutionary-era flintlocks and their earlier predecessors, the matchlocks, that are his specialty and passion.

HANNA CITY, Ill. (WMBD) — Wildlife Prairie Park is looking for help finding a historic rifle that was stolen from the park. The 36-calibre muzzle-loading percussion cap rifle was stolen from its ...

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In the early 1970s, a neighbor in Houston told Joe Wolf that the local K-Mart was liquidating its black powder firearms and equipment. “I said I’m going with you,” Wolf said. White Smoke Brigade: ...