Clearly, after 40 years, this flintlock muzzleloader season that is unique to Pennsylvania appears to be a success. Here are some keys to successfully loading and priming a flintlock before heading ...

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 ...

From the caribou camps in the Great White North of Quebec to the hunting lodges of the Deep South, six decades of filling tags with muzzleloader rifles and shotguns earned Dave Ehrig the title of “Mr.

Hunting with a flintlock rifle is much more than Dave Ehrig’s hobby. Ehrig, 57, of Longswamp Township, Berks County, is a self-proclaimed flintlock fanatic. The retired Whitehall-Coplay school teacher ...