A black powder organization is looking to preserve flintlock rifle hunting in Pa. through a new expanded deer season. Here's ...

With a click of a trigger and the release of a flint stone against steel, black ... carrying a flintlock in the woods in all the hunting seasons. He made a smoothbore 20 gauge gun that allows ...

The flintlock pictured here is a typical British "Brown Bess" musket. Marks on the gun indicate that it was used by German mercenaries during the American Revolution. 1637 - First use of firearms ...

Bill Harriman, firearms specialist on BBC One's Antiques Roadshow, told Making History that a flintlock is a mechanism ... with the muzzle of the gun pointed well away. The firer would then ...

The Pennsylvania Federation of Black Powder Shooters has started a petition on change.org as well as a paper petition seeking a new hunting season for primitive flintlock rifles. That online ...