We have sooooo many deer in Pennsylvania ! So, Pennsylvania has an exclusive 3-week muzzle loading flintlock-only season. Maintaining a working flintlock rifle is a skill! Usually its snowing and cold; sometimes it rains in this hunting season. Getting a good spark from a well knapped flint crashing into a hard frizzen, lighting up the flash powder in the pan and a clear vent with ignition plus a well aimed rifle sometimes yields results! Today was one of those days. A small 7 point whitetail paused for an instant for the flash-boom. Instead of colliding with my pick up truck; this guy took a 54cal. hand cast lead round ball boolit from my Leigh Valley Pennsylvania long rifle. Every meal with a venison entree throughout the year brings a pleasant memory.