One of the many great things about muzzleloading rifles is that a model exists for any level of hunting or shooting that you desire. If you want a traditional flintlock rifle that fires round balls ...
Learn about the modern black powder rifle, including a round ball selection guide, how to load a muzzleloader, shooting a black powder gun, and a shooting safety guide. To many folks, the idea of ...
There’s this thing about muzzleloading for deer that both the new to the game as well as the old (that would be me) forget. Black powder does not produce one-half the knockdown power that modern ...
The first threads of daylight push into the sky as Dave explains how to load the gun. First, measure out 100 grains of gunpowder, he says. Then pour the powder down the barrel. Put a patch --a small ...
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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 ...
BERTHOUD — As the temperature climbed over 100 degrees on a recent afternoon, 17-year-old Brittany Cawthra used a ramrod to pound a 50-caliber lead ball tightly into her traditional Thompson/Center ...
SUMMIT STATION – If one bit of advice could be given to those thinking about shooting their muzzleloader at the Blue Ridge Rifles Muzzleloader Club during its Memorial Day Rendezvous and Shoot, it ...