Christian Hawken was a premier Kentucky-style rifle-maker who lived and worked in Hagerstown after the American Revolution. Today, his rifles are highly desirable, thanks to their artistry and ...

Much like the title character portrayed by Robert Redford in the film “Jeremiah Johnson,” I too was unable to purchase my first choice of a rifle when I took up flintlock deer hunting in 1978. I was ...

“Gladly, son, gladly,” said the smith, placing the rifle in the boy’s hands. Then he added: “She’s a genuine full stocked Hawken, son, caliber about .40. She was a flintlock once—made in St. Louis and ...

In the hands of men like Boone, Kenton, and Wetzel, the flintlock rifle helped shape North America as we know it today. Flintlock rifles won our War of Independence and went west with Lewis and Clark.