The rising sun sent shards of orange, violet, and red pastel light across the eastern sky on a morning muzzleloader deer hunt in the Sandhills of Nebraska. A big buck, his nose to the ground, was ...

Today, rifles are made with exacting precision and very complex machine tools for milling, grinding, and boring out the barrel. Long rifles have been around much longer than these modern machine ...

A modern firearm is likely to be mass-produced using high-precision machine tools, and with a uniformity to the extent that parts from ... 18th-century muzzle-loading flintlock rifle from raw ...

Why isn’t year-round hunting? Why are deer so numerous even with so many hunters? What about a commercial hunt?

It comes with all the parts and instructions you need to build a complete traditional cap-lock Kentucky rifle. Kits like this have been around a long time, but they still make a fantastic gift.

1400s - The matchlock gun appears. Before the matchlock ... Various revolving designs had been around for centuries, but precision parts couldn't be made with available technologies.

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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is implementing new regulations and incentives to encourage antlerless deer harvests across much of the Lower Peninsula, where expanding herds are ...

Saturday just before sunrise marks the start of the firearm deer opener in Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Natural ...

The early muzzle-loading rifles indeed had several problems with loading, since it had to be a tight fit to engage the rifling properly. Innovations that included greased patches and the Minié ...