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 ...

HOLDERNESS — The smell of campfire smoke mixed with the scent of gunpowder on Saturday as more than 50 people participated in a Primitive Biathlon — a fun and challenging wilderness competition that ...

Watch as a pre-1840 primitive campsite is set up; condensed to 2 minutes A trio of pre-1840 primitive campers set up a campsite, as dozens will be doing in preparation for the Blue Ridge Rifles ...

HUNTING WITH A MUZZLELOADER is an increasingly popular method of hunting in Maryland. Yet, some hunters are intimidated by the specialized equipment and methods necessary to the process of loading, ...

Chad Schilling and Ben Werner captured the first-place awards in the senior and junior divisions at the 2023 Morgan County Fair 4-H Muzzleloader Shoot. Ten youth competed in the contest that was held ...

MIDDLETOWN — Roy Lauth was shooting a 1776 Revolutionary War flintlock, George Nichols was firing a Kentucky rifle from the same era and Bob King held a Hawken from the “Mountain Men” period of the ...

CAIRO — “Pistol packin’ Mama” — also known as Edie Grim, of Dannebrog — was in charge of keeping records at the 31st annual “Red White and Blue” rendezvous on the South Loup River northwest of Cairo ...

The local Nebraska Muzzle Loading Rifle Association was among the groups which hosted the state muzzle loading championships over Labor Day weekend at the Red, White and Blue Range near Cairo.

Gary DeAustin got hooked on muzzleloaders the first time he fired one of the old-time rifles more than three decades ago. So did Jim Townsend. "I haven't fired a modern one since," said Townsend, ...

Rod Douglas fires a shot with his pre-revolutionary war flintlock during a gathering of Flathead Muzzleloaders Association near Columbia Falls Saturday, Dec. 4. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake) A ...

MANISTEE — Black powder smoke hung in the air as the Manistee Muzzle Loading Club presented its 60th annual “Shoot Time” on Saturday and Sunday. Over 100 gun owners and their families arrived from all ...