One of the best flintlock rifle kits you can buy is offered by Kibler. It’ll set you back about $1000. Kibler The second option Walker suggested is a flintlock rifle kit. In the latter part of ...

A light touch of the hair trigger will fire the rifle. With a set trigger system, the rear set trigger is pulled to make the front firing “hair” trigger have a lighter pull. A note on misfires.

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 ...

The Hawken flintlock rifle the historical society received measures 58 inches; its .50-caliber barrel has straight rifling — most rifles have grooves inside the barrel to guide the projectile.

Pennsylvania's flintlock deer hunting season started 50 years ago. Heritage is one reason new hunters take it up and others return year after year.

The new rifle allowed an experienced soldier to fire up to 15 rounds per minute, a drastic improvement from earlier muskets. Not only powerful, the M1873 also had an effective range of up to 1,000 ...