Learn about the modern black powder rifle, including a round ball selection guide, how to load a muzzleloader, shooting a black powder gun, and a shooting safety guide. To many folks, the idea of ...

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 ...

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 ...

PENDLETON – Drawing an elk tag in Oregon is becoming increasingly difficult each year, even in less popular spots. As an alternative, many hunters are turning to black powder rifles – also known as ...

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: ...

which subsequently traveled through a tiny hole in the barrel and lit a larger charge of gunpowder, the explosion of which shot the lead ball through the barrel and toward its target. Here was 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 ...

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 ...

Roger Heaster is one of those men who couldn’t simply pick up a firearm and start hunting. Once involved, the 47-year-old electronics specialist bought the “whole kit and caboodle,” as a rowdy ...