Sure, you’ll see Sitka jackets and camo-dipped guns during the P.A. flintlock season, but it’s the old-school hunters in buckskins and fur hats, carrying traditional long rifles, who make this ...

once every twenty seconds guns (muskets and flintlocks) that cost a month’s wages in 1792, today we’ve got three rounds-per-second (not per minute) military style rifles with 20-shot magazines ...

The flintlock pictured here is a typical British "Brown Bess" musket. Marks on the gun indicate that it was used by German mercenaries during the American Revolution. 1637 - First use of firearms ...