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 ...

This post describes the speediest means of reloading firearms in the 19th century. The main focus is not the ammunition capacity of any particular type of arm, but rather how quickly various arms ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hunters burned a few more grains of black powder this year. Smokepole shooter numbers got a boost with passage of a regulation this past big-game hunting season allowing the use of optic devices, ...