Michigan's firearm deer season ends at the close of legal shooting Tuesday, but 200,000 hunters still have their sights set on the December muzzleloading season. Once a marginal group, dominated by ...

They may be old-fashioned, but some contestants in 4-H’s annual shooting competitions get a bang out of muzzleloading rifles. The muzzleloading contest was the last of three pre-fair shooting events ...

You couldn’t have rolled a pickup truck full of beer cans off the mountain and created more commotion than the bull elk was making. I’d heard him bugle, checked the wind, snuck closer, and ultimately ...

KEARNEY — Terry Kamstra carefully explained the features of a 50 caliber muzzleloading rifle to Alex Wall, who tried to decide if he wanted to purchase the rifle. “I’ve never actually used a ...

It was once called a "primitive arms" deer hunting season, but no one pretends that's the case any more. And it's not a "blackpowder" season anymore, either. It remains - just barely - a muzzleloader ...