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 ...

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 ...

LENORE, Idaho Omer Church carefully measures two scoops of black powder and pours them down the barrels of his shotgun. He follows the explosive grains with a series of wads and shot and taps them all ...

Michigan's firearm deer season ends at the close of legal shooting Tuesday, but 200,000 hunters still have their sights set on the December muzzleloading season. Once a marginal group, dominated by ...

A muzzleloading firearm is one way to extend your deer-hunting season or a more challenging way to hunt small game. A muzzleloader is defined as a firearm that is loaded from the muzzle. The muzzle is ...

One of the many great things about muzzleloading rifles is that a model exists for any level of hunting or shooting that you desire. If you want a traditional flintlock rifle that fires round balls ...

A clay disk is launched into the air, followed by a bang. The target explodes in mid-air. A participant cheers. He has hit his target. For 4-H shotgun competitors, scenarios like this happen on a ...