MIDDLETOWN — Roy Lauth was shooting a 1776 Revolutionary War flintlock, George Nichols was firing a Kentucky rifle from the same era and Bob King held a Hawken from the “Mountain Men” period of the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Steamboat Springs – Everything Bill Gilbert is wearing belongs on a wall in a museum. The rifle, the skis, even the fur-trapper garb seems more at home in a ...

In 1985—which I am still occasionally shocked to realize is now ancient history—Missouri gunsmith Tony Knight changed blackpowder shooting and deer hunting forever when he invented his inline MK-85 ...

COLEBROOK, N.H., May 14 (UPI) -- Explosions at a gun manufacturing plant that shook the New Hampshire town of Colebrook Friday left two people dead, a state official said. The New Hampshire fire ...

Gary DeAustin got hooked on muzzleloaders the first time he fired one of the old-time rifles more than three decades ago. So did Jim Townsend. "I haven't fired a modern one since," said Townsend, ...

Probably the first great leap forward in muzzle­loader technology occurred in the 1700s, when Pennsylvania gunmaker Martin Meylin added rifling to his barrels, creating the first long rifles (known as ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A dozen shooters convened at the South Plateau Shooting Complex on Saturday morning for a chance ...

Officials say there has been an explosion at a black powder gun company in northern New Hampshire. It is unclear if anyone was hurt in the fire and explosion at the MDM Muzzleloader plant in Colebrook ...

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The technological advancement that’s going to open muzzleloader hunting up to a whole wave of new people is a polyethylene capsule that’s filled with black powder. So … not exactly space-age ...