Michigan's firearm deer season ends at the close of legal shooting Tuesday, but 200,000 hunters still have their sights set on the December muzzleloading season. Once a marginal group, dominated by ...

They may be old-fashioned, but some contestants in 4-H’s annual shooting competitions get a bang out of muzzleloading rifles. The muzzleloading contest was the last of three pre-fair shooting events ...

Tim Claypool admired the handiwork of the craftsmen who made black powder muzzleloader rifles dating to the late 1700s and 1800s and replicas on display at a collectors show Saturday, but he was ...

You couldn’t have rolled a pickup truck full of beer cans off the mountain and created more commotion than the bull elk was making. I’d heard him bugle, checked the wind, snuck closer, and ultimately ...

To some it’s a lost art and talent that requires more skill than any other shooting sport today. To others, it represents a welcome, simpler time. Either way there are many options for people who ...

It was once called a "primitive arms" deer hunting season, but no one pretends that's the case any more. And it's not a "blackpowder" season anymore, either. It remains - just barely - a muzzleloader ...