In the hands of men like Boone, Kenton, and Wetzel, the flintlock rifle helped shape North America as we know it today. Flintlock rifles won our War of Independence and went west with Lewis and Clark.

The blackpowder rifles that come out of Hershel House’s workshop hidden in the Kentucky backwoods aren’t just exacting, made-from-scratch re-creations of true frontier guns. The home-forged springs ...

Casey Page / The Billings (Mont.) GazetteJim Bonawitz talks about his historic replica flintlock rifles in his workshop in Billings, Montana. BILLINGS, Mont. — About 230 years ago, a master gunsmith ...

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 tools ...

It can been said that in the pioneer days of the mountains, the greatest artisans in a community may have been the gunsmiths. Working with few resources save for the abundance of timber, makers of ...

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.