Aram von Benedikt and his son took part in one of the oldest American traditions there is: muzzleloading for deer with a ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. With a fiery burst and cloud of black smoke, Montana’s first heritage muzzleloader hunt is set to ...

FAIRVIEW — Last week, I had one of the more unusual grouse openers in my bird hunting history. I joined a group of traditional muzzleloaders from throughout Michigan for a grouse-and-squirrel opener ...

Traditional muzzleloader hunters will have a new nine-day deer and elk season under a bill nearing passage in the Montana Legislature. The Senate voted to give initial approval Tuesday to House Bill ...

A bill implementing a traditional muzzleloader hunting season in Montana has been signed into law by Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte. House Bill 242, from Rep. Caleb Hinkle, R-Belgrade, establishes a ...

MARINETTE COUNTY (WLUK) -- Even though the nine-day gun deer season is in the books, those looking for a different kind of outing are taking to the field around the state. For 10 days immediately ...

Jan. 6 at 30 minutes after sunset. From then on, only bowhunters can take a whitetail legally until season’s end on Feb. 1. About 13,500 whitetails were checked last year during ...

Time certainly has a way of passing you by. I can readily remember being an avid participant in Michigan’s first special muzzleloader deer season in December 1975. Being a “shotgun zone” deer hunter, ...

The term muzzleloader used to conjure up visions of a buckskin-clad mountain man patrolling the hills and hollows of the rugged Blue Ridge Range in the 19th century, hoping to bag a white-tailed deer ...

YAKIMA — It was the opening morning of early muzzleloader elk season, and Don Strand was right where he wanted to be: hunkered down in heavy timber up Nasty Creek in the Ahtanum, 25 yards from a legal ...

For those seeking what is arguably the ultimate challenge in bagging a fall turkey with a rifle, think muzzleloader. Already a very strong argument can be made for the wild turkey being the most ...