Muzzleloader bullets are a distinct genre in the hunting world, and modern designs allow hunters to obtain centerfire-quality accuracy. Muzzleloaders have two inherent limitations. The first, ...

I froze as the buck did, looking at his broadside silhouette through the tall prairie grass. Experience told me it was over before he bounded past the horizon. I would need to take about six steps to ...

Many new hunters will try deer hunting for the first time during the muzzleloading deer season from Oct. 17-25. Muzzleloader season is an attractive sampler for hunting deer with firearms. There are ...

Probably the first great leap forward in muzzle­loader technology occurred in the 1700s, when Pennsylvania gunmaker Martin Meylin added rifling to his barrels, creating the first long rifles (known as ...

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 ...