THE BIG WOODS of Pennsylvania, the final holdout state to maintain a flintlock-specific muzzleloader season, are full of tradition and smoke from the day after Christmas until the middle of January.

While it’s rare to get any buck during Pennsylvania’s flintlock season, two hunters harvested deer with massive antlers this winter.

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 ...

A primitive hunting season is underway in Pennsylvania for those who enjoy winter weather and challenging firearms. “It’s really a deep-rooted connection with hunting,” Curtis Morris, owner of Morris ...

With centerfire rifles now being permitted to hunt deer in several parts of Pennsylvania during the flintlock season, an organization wants the Game Commission to create a new early flintlock ...

The statewide archery and flintlock seasons open on Dec. 26 and run through Jan. 19. In Wildlife Management Units (WMUs) 2B, 5C and 5D near Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, the primitive weapon seasons ...

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, ...

One of the best deer-hunting memories I have is the morning Betty and I came downstairs to a homemade breakfast prepared by Mom wearing our possible bags and powder horns and toting flintlock rifles.

Pennsylvania’s flintlock-only deer season, begun in 1973, is the last of its kind in America. While most of today’s hunters tote modern in-line muzzleloaders, each January, Keystone State ...