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 ...

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 ...

Tim Claypool admired the handiwork of the craftsmen who made black powder muzzleloader rifles dating to the late 1700s and 1800s and replicas on display at a collectors show Saturday, but he was ...

My introduction to muzzleloaders began back in 1984 when I, tutored by my father, harvested my first black powder whitetail—a fine fat doe—in Ohio’s Harrison County. The rifle? A Thompson/Center ...

The blackpowder rifles that come out of Hershel House’s workshop hidden in the Kentucky backwoods aren’t just exacting, made-from-scratch re-creations of true frontier guns. The home-forged springs ...

OLYMPIA — Civil War re-enactment enthusiast Bill Safford says a typical weekend battle can require up to 100 pounds of black powder. Cannons, rifles and the re-enactment’s real-life quality all depend ...