Pennsylvania's flintlock deer hunting season started 50 years ago. Heritage is one reason new hunters take it up and others return year after year.

Pennsylvania's flintlock deer hunting season started 50 years ago. Heritage is one reason new hunters take it up and others return year after year.

Hunting with a flintlock rifle is damn hard. Of all the talk of Daniel Boone “barking squirrels” from fifty yards and America’s dead-eye frontiersmen shooting the heads of nails or snuffing candles in ...

Plan for this year: Pa. Game Commission sets tentative 2024-2026 hunting, trapping seasons, includes 3 Sundays More: Two Pa. hunters get rare bucks with flintlock muzzleloaders. Here's how “The ...

Celebrating the heritage of hunting, this challenge has become so popular that a cottage gunsmithing industry has emerged to satisfy demand for this 18th-century technology.

He’s been hunting since age 12 and now has a 60-acre farm that he hunts. “I’ve been flintlock hunting ever since I could,” he said about his dad, Robert, getting him involved.

KEMPTON – Greg Dixon was there when it all started back in 1976. A rush of patriotism brought on by the nation’s bi-centennial and the release of the film “Jeremiah Johnson”… ...

Each year, up to one dozen family and friends join Mike Vaka while deer hunting in the state’s special post-Christmas flintlock season, which is celebrating its 50th year this year.

He’s been hunting since age 12 and now has a 60-acre farm that he hunts. “I’ve been flintlock hunting ever since I could,” he said about his dad, Robert, getting him involved.