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 ...

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 ...

The first threads of daylight push into the sky as Dave explains how to load the gun. First, measure out 100 grains of gunpowder, he says. Then pour the powder down the barrel. Put a patch --a small ...

Puffs of white smoke drifting over a clearing on the edge of Berryville didn't come from distant wildfires, but from the barrels of black-powder rifles, pistols and shotguns at a shooting match that ...

There are many types of air guns, but the most popular and most reliable are break-barrel rifles. These have a hinged junction where the shooter cracks the barrel in half, which cocks the gun and in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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