Flintlock rifles won our War of Independence and went west with Lewis and Clark. Because of this, many sportsmen and women want to own, shoot, and hunt, with a flintlock rifle.

The flintlock was used from 1640 or 50 until the cap lock was invented in 1840. Boone, Kenton, and Harrod, would have used a gun like the one I made for the history center.

He kept the flintlock rifle, made in 1775 by gunsmith Johann Christian Oerter, in his barn for 47 years after he stole it from a display case at the Valley Forge State Park Museum, officials said.

Hobby muzzleloader rifle builders Bob and Gerry Rubbo of Summit Station display rifles they have for sale each year during the Gunmakers Fair at Kempton, which this year is Friday-Sunday, July 26 ...

To acknowledge their gallantry, for the first and only time, the U.S. Congress presented each of the 17 teens with a special firearm — a Hall Model 1819 breech loading flintlock rifle.

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 ...

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 ...