A black powder organization is looking to preserve flintlock rifle hunting in Pa. through a new expanded deer season. Here's why.

Pennsylvania’s Mr. Black Powder lives in Longswamp Township. He’s outdoor writer and muzzleloading expert Dave Ehrig, whose influence on traditional long rifle shooting reaches far beyond his ...

Hunting with a flintlock rifle is much more than Dave Ehrig’s hobby. Ehrig, 57, of Longswamp Township, Berks County, is a self-proclaimed flintlock fanatic. The retired Whitehall-Coplay schoo… ...

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 ...

The tradition of black powder, the earliest known chemical explosive, goes back to ninth-century China, where it was invented by Taoist monks and alchemists experimenting with medical concoctions.

There’s the city of Dawn, a Door to the Great Below, the Coalition, black powder firearms, ... Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn is a breath of fresh air when it comes to the Souls-lite genre.

To load a flintlock rifle, the marksman 1) measures out a charge of powder, 2) ... He uses black powder instead of smokeless (which is too powerful), so each shot envelops him in a dense cloud.