THE BIG WOODS of Pennsylvania, the final holdout state to maintain a flintlock-specific muzzleloader season, are full of tradition and smoke from the day after Christmas until the middle of January.

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 ...

A Crawford County hunter gets large buck while hunting in the late deer season. Here's why it's a rare accomplishment.

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 ...

For many of those muzzleloader hunters who were or are referred to as “born out of time,” viewing a DVD of the film “Jeremiah Johnson” remains as much of the preparation for the flintlock season as a ...