Tyler Sydebotham, the active gunsmith at the historic John P. Sites Jr. Gunsmith Shop, hopes to keep history alive.

The blackpowder rifles that come out of Hershel House’s workshop hidden in the Kentucky backwoods aren’t just exacting, made-from-scratch re-creations of true frontier guns. The home-forged springs ...

KEMPTON – For those finding a flintlock rifle under the tree Christmas Day, the calendar is their friend. Yes, while veteran flintlock hunters champ at the bit as the usual day-after-Christmas opening ...

Daniel Boone may have gone to the Kentucky wilderness once he became a man, but he was born and bred here in Pennsylvania and his exploits were made possible by the skilled German gunsmiths of ...