Vasbinder’s deer is actually a deer he shot at in November while archery hunting. Here are their stories. Black, 56, has hunted deer ever since he was 12, but this is the first with a flintlock.

Brian Kauffman, 34, of Thompsontown, Juniata County, has been hunting small game like rabbits and squirrels as well as deer and bear with flintlocks. “I’ve always had an interest in them ...