freddyfour
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Yes exactly, good to go!!
Is Coyote hunting with 10 rnd Mags legal?
- Thread starter Price449
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Yes, YOU should know this.
Semi-auto rifles are Federally regulated to 5 rounds, this has nothing to do with hunting. As I am sure you know, magazine capacity regulations are regulated on the firearm they were designed for, so if you happen to own a rifle where a 10rd pistol magazine...or a 15rd .50Beo rifle magazine...functions in, then you can use that magazine for hunting, period....assuming there are no provincial regulations.
In Ontario, 10 rounds is perfectly fine...but do carry the docs that prove this.
Here it is in black and white from the regs, so yes it is fine to do so. All they go by is what the firearms act says and the firearms acts says we can use them.
That's a copy of the hunting synopsis. You should directly read the regs. The summaries in the hunting synopsis are full of generalizations and often contain errors and half truths. All that matters is what is wrote in the regulations and that book isn't the regulations.
freddyfour
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I have no idea. I would assume that it is perfectly legal to do what he asked but I don't live in Ont so I see no need in me myself reading the relevant prov. acts and regulations. I am just pointing out that a hunting synopsis isn't a good source to be using. I posted a link to queens printer in a earlier post. Your hunting sysnopisis should tell you the names of the acts/reg that govern hunting. Type that into to queens printer and you will be able to confirm what ever you want to.
the spank
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this!!!!
I seem to recall in qc we were able to hunt grouse without mag restrictions (shotgun), unless it has changed. Here in sask it's 2+1. So check your local regs for the province you're in. I'm sure no one offering internet advice is going to cover your legal costs if they're wrong. Call the MNR and ask if there are mag restrictions.
Hotwheels81
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Upland and migratory bird hunting typically have 2 seperate regulations, here it's no hunting migratory with a single projectile firearm and you gotta use steel shot as well as the 2+1 rule for semi's, upland is pretty much open to everything your not allowed to do while hunting migratory .22's/lead shot/no mag limit... Can even shoot from certain roads with a shotgun... It's all in the book, black and white.
Read the reg's carefully, they make distinction between big and small game, pest and fur bearer's... If it states that magazine limits are controlled by the firearms act and regulated to 5 rounds then yes you are allowed to use a 10rnd mag because they are uninformed that the same rule book makes a 10rnd mag legal.
The treaty covers more than the 2 shell rule. Its largest effect at the time was outlawing the use of punt guns and limiting mass commercial harvest of birds. So that is why we can't use anything larger than a 10ga for migratory birds. As for bag limits I don't think there was at the time. A lot of the treaty is a hold over from a long gone time. The only thing slower than changing domestic law is trying to amend international treaties and getting the respective governments to pass them. At the time the treaty was passed I am sure the stuff made sense and if you look at the recovery of the migratory bird populations it appears to have worked.
I've read through all these posts and wonder how many people Actually shoot coyotes?
I go coyote shooting out to the farm just about every weekend possible and its been many years since I've been able to fire off 4 rounds at once. After the first shot, every next round is a running shot.
I suppose it is hypothetically possible to need 10 rounds for shooting dogs, but I have serious doubts. I don't use 5 rounds in a day, and in fact I prefer the low profile of the 5 round mag.
I go coyote shooting out to the farm just about every weekend possible and its been many years since I've been able to fire off 4 rounds at once. After the first shot, every next round is a running shot.
I suppose it is hypothetically possible to need 10 rounds for shooting dogs, but I have serious doubts. I don't use 5 rounds in a day, and in fact I prefer the low profile of the 5 round mag.
freddyfour
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Fair point, to be honest I have not fired a shoot this year! I mine as well have whipped a 10rd mag at them (if I had one) for all the good I've done this year
Nowhere in the hunting regs does it say that. And thats silly as the standard mag limit for a semi rifle is 1 in the chamber and 5 in the mag. Since he would be using a pistol mag in the gun and the mag limit only goes for the intended purpose of the mag he can legaly use a 10 round pistol mag in his semi rifle, As stated by the RCMP.
freddyfour
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But LAR mags are already legal.
I hunt coyotes and take two LAR mags and one beowulf
Two reasons
1. Because the law allows me to
2. See above
We are not talking about the BX25, as that is completely different. The issue with the BX is that it was labelled for use in BOTH the Ruger 10/22 rifle....and the most important part....the Pistol. If a mag is designed for both a pistol and rifle, the capacity is restricted to 10rds, hence 25rds being prohib.
So after much debate the question has been answered. I was able to get in touch with the hunting regulations hotline.
In southern Ontario the only restriction they enforce is for caliber being .275 max!
The magazine restrictions are federal so as long as it's legal to posses it's legal to hunt with. That said I will take the sound advice of some senior CGN ers and print off the appropriate legislation fold it multiple times into a tight bundle and put to with my licence, OFAH card and bum wad that I carry with me at all times whilst hunting coyotes!
Thanks kindly to everyone that took the time to reply and especially to the members that went above and beyond posting links not just opinions.
Cheers. P449
In southern Ontario the only restriction they enforce is for caliber being .275 max!
The magazine restrictions are federal so as long as it's legal to posses it's legal to hunt with. That said I will take the sound advice of some senior CGN ers and print off the appropriate legislation fold it multiple times into a tight bundle and put to with my licence, OFAH card and bum wad that I carry with me at all times whilst hunting coyotes!
Thanks kindly to everyone that took the time to reply and especially to the members that went above and beyond posting links not just opinions.
Cheers. P449
