COURTLAND – Southampton County will remain off limits to hunters hoping to use black-powder rifles to shoot deer. Of the counties and municipalities in Virginia that allow hunting, Southampton is the ...

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 ...

CHESTERFIELD − County police say several weapons, including black-powder rifles, were taken during an early morning break-in Sunday at a sporting goods store in the south end of the county. An email ...

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 ...

Contenders at the 66th annual Saunders Memorial Shoot gave it their best shot because one shot was all they got. Shooting matches at Luther Owens Park gun range in Berryville are for muzzle-loader ...

It might be the closest some people get to experiencing what our forefathers did when they settled the prairie lands many years ago. That’s what several black powder rifle shooters were saying ...

There is a whitetail buck at the edge of a field, looking around and occasionally wagging his tail. This is not the high alert that sends deer running in all directions. This buck doesn’t detect any ...

Pennsylvania’s Mr. Black Powder lives in Longswamp Township. He’s outdoor writer and muzzleloading expert Dave Ehrig, whose influence on traditional long rifle shooting reaches far beyond his hillside ...

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 ...