Pennsylvania is the only state that dedicates a deer season to the flintlock muzzleloader. Launched in 1974, the season runs for for three weeks after Christmas. During those weeks, hunters can punch ...

While it’s rare to get any buck during Pennsylvania’s flintlock season, two hunters harvested deer with massive antlers this winter. Paul Black of Rew, McKean County, and Nate Vasbinder Widnoon, ...

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 ...

A primitive hunting season is underway in Pennsylvania for those who enjoy winter weather and challenging firearms. “It’s really a deep-rooted connection with hunting,” Curtis Morris, owner of Morris ...

When the Pennsylvania Game Commission established the first flintlock muzzleloader deer season in 1974, none in our small circle that had been born out of time realized how hunting with a flintlock ...

Good things come to hunters who wait and sometimes that good thing is a record-class buck. A Pennsylvania hunter passed up on several bucks during archery and rifle seasons because trail camera photos ...

Twenty years ago, Michael Vaka’s grandfather-in-law Glen Barlow showed up at his door with a gift for his grandson-in-law — a box containing a flintlock rifle he’d bought decades before for $50 at a ...

Pennsylvania’s flintlock-only deer season, begun in 1973, is the last of its kind in America. While most of today’s hunters tote modern in-line muzzleloaders, each January, Keystone State ...

With 10 days remaining until the day-after-Christmas opening of the Pennsylvania flintlock deer season – nine of them being shopping days – there is more than enough time for hunters to prepare their ...