BERTHOUD — As the temperature climbed over 100 degrees on a recent afternoon, 17-year-old Brittany Cawthra used a ramrod to pound a 50-caliber lead ball tightly into her traditional Thompson/Center ...

Stop at the Canal Fulton Ramrod Club for the Ohio State Championships this weekend, and you’ll be able to experience one of the most fun parts of shooting muzzleloaders — the flash and the boom from ...

The timing was right, even if the results weren’t. Going into fall, Pennsylvania adopted its first muzzleloader season for black bears. It overlapped with an antlerless deer season in mid-October, a ...

Technology has impacted most everything in our lives including muzzleloading rifles. Pennsylvania has a long heritage of having a primitive hunting season after Christmas for muzzleloaders. Scouting ...

The “primitive” longrifle (muzzleloader) was America’s first significant design contribution to the firearms world. Long, graceful, and accurate, Golden Age longrifles (circa 1780 to 1840) rendered ...