Plugged 870 while hiking around Banff?

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I am bringing my Rem 870p on a climbing trip around (outside) Banff NP. It will be primarily for bear defence when camping on the banks of a river, as well as at the rock when I'm climbing.

Do I have to have it plugged for 3 rounds, or am I good to go with the standard 7 (well, 6 in the mag)? I am NOT hunting.

I don't want this getting into a bull$hit fight about getting in trouble for "poaching", or suggesting that I should plug the mag "just to be safe" or some other crap like that. I am looking for a simple answer to my simple question.

Thanks.
 
Umm not sure even if your allowed to carry a firearm in a national park. You can drive through them with one but I'm pretty sure those big signs at the entrance to the park says their prohibited to carry.

Maybe someone else can verify.
 
Lumpy said:
Umm not sure even if your allowed to carry a firearm in a national park. You can drive through them with one but I'm pretty sure those big signs at the entrance to the park says their prohibited to carry.

Maybe someone else can verify.
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Did you read the first sentence in my post above yours?:rolleyes:
 
As long as you're outside the park, you're good to go.

(Countdown until someone from Ontario tells a story of how their cousin got screwed over by an Ontario MNR Warden...)

-M
 
Thanks Mark, that is very good to know! I am definitely NOT a yahoo nor do I look shady in any way. We will have our climbing gear with us and the gun will be in a side-scabbard on my pack ;)

I was more or less just worried about getting hassled about having 6 rounds in the tube.
 
mmattockx said:
+1. Alberta CO's tend to be pretty relaxed about guns in the bush outside hunting season, unless you are all geared up and look like you ARE hunting. Backpacking with a shotgun won't raise many eyebrows around here.

Mark
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Agreed. Hell, I've been walking around the farm/bush with my deer rifle (doubling on that occasion as a coyote rifle) and seen the local CO's truck drive by - he slowed down and waved, and I waved back... then he kept on going, no worries about it.

That's the way it should be, if you ask me.

As for being out in the boonies, in proper backpacking country near the mountains, I've still yet to even see a CO. And if I did, I don't anticipate he'd figure I was hunting trophy sheep or elk with my 12 gauge... :D

-M
 
pazzo said:
Thanks Mark, that is very good to know! I am definitely NOT a yahoo nor do I look shady in any way. We will have our climbing gear with us and the gun will be in a side-scabbard on my pack ;)

I was more or less just worried about getting hassled about having 6 rounds in the tube.
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You shouldn't get hastled, because the total of three shots in a shotgun, only applies for hunting purposes.

Even then, during the Alberta wild boar eradication program, again magazine capacity was not an issue, with pump action shotguns.
 
While we are on the topic, is it OK to have 6 rounds in the tube AND one in the chamber? I've never really known if this is alright or not.
 
ianthomson said:
The three shot rule is for waterfowl, you can load it way up for upland or bunnies, or just hiking, you;ll have no issue.
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The three round rule applies to all Game birds in alberta. Not just migratory birds. That includes upland.

Carefull with the advice you give online man...some idiots actually believe what they read on here instead of getting the local regs like they're supposed too.

Back to the OP...i carry an 870 w/ mag extension in the bush all the time. Chatted with CO's on two seperate occasions. They just looked at the gun quick fast...asked what i was doing...then went on their way. No problems at all.
 
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