Hunting with a flintlock rifle is much more than Dave Ehrig’s hobby. Ehrig, 57, of Longswamp Township, Berks County, is a self-proclaimed flintlock fanatic. The retired Whitehall-Coplay school teacher ...

The Kentucky long rifle represents a time when the Kentucky frontiersman became a legend of American history. Under the famous battle at King’s Mountain during the Revolutionary War, Col. Isaac Shelby ...

One of the best deer-hunting memories I have is the morning Betty and I came downstairs to a homemade breakfast prepared by ...

Bill Harriman, firearms specialist on BBC One's Antiques Roadshow, told Making History that a flintlock is a mechanism attached to a firearm which produces its own sparks, doing what the human hand ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This .54 caliber rifled flintlock ...

Twenty years ago, Michael Vaka’s grandfather-in-law Glen Barlow showed up at his door with a gift for his grandson-in-law — a box containing a flintlock rifle he’d bought decades before for $50 at a ...