In this way, they keep the past alive. 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 ...

While it’s rare to get any buck during Pennsylvania’s flintlock season, two hunters harvested deer with massive antlers this winter.

but the intent of the season was to have a primitive style hunt using old technology,” Frye said about hunting after Christmas. With the first flintlock season starting in January 1974 ...