KEMPTON – For master muzzleloader rifle builders, horners, knife makers and other craftsman who produce items associated with the Golden Age of Muzzle Loading the last weekend in July is a time to ...

KEMPTON – When George Jones sang the heartbreaking lyrics asking “Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes,” he well could have been singing about the gunmakers who were building rifles when the popularity of ...

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KEMPTON – Hard to believe how long in the tooth flintlock hunters have become since getting in on the ground floor when the flintlock deer season made its debut in the mid-1970s. Not hard to believe, ...

BILLINGS – Approximately 230 years ago, a master gunsmith in Pennsylvania left his mark during America’s Golden Age of rifle making. Now one of the distant relatives of Johannes (aka John) Bonewitz is ...

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 ...

Ka-boom! That’s the familiar sound hunters in the woods this time of year look forward to hearing. Monday was the first day of the three-week flintlock rifle season in Pennsylvania. It’s believed to ...