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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Steamboat Springs – Everything Bill Gilbert is wearing belongs on a wall in a museum. The rifle, the skis, even the fur-trapper garb seems more at home in a ...

Gary DeAustin got hooked on muzzleloaders the first time he fired one of the old-time rifles more than three decades ago. So did Jim Townsend. "I haven't fired a modern one since," said Townsend, ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** During the recent NRA Annual ...

If that old Beverly Hillbilly Jed Clampett hadn’t stumbled on black gold and been transformed into a multi-millionaire back in the early 1960s, he eventually might have become a customer of ...

Hunters across the state who miss their trophy deer during the nine day gun-deer season have a second chance at claiming their prize with the upcoming muzzleloader hunt Nov. 28 through Dec. 7. An old ...

CUMBERLAND, Wis. -- The doe was big, I could see that, and from my stand in a swamp north of this town, amid the day's early morning light, I considered briefly shouldering my muzzleloader and pulling ...

If memory serves me right, I shot my first squirrel, which was incidentally my first game animal, in 1972. I was eight at the time. My father, Mick, was there—observer, educator, guardian, coach, and ...

CUMBERLAND, WIS. - The doe was big, I could see that, and from my stand in a swamp north of this town, amid Saturday's early morning light, I considered briefly shouldering my muzzleloader and pulling ...