fmj for hunting

In Saskatchewan its illegal for big-game including bear. Un-ethical is a different topic, for some species using anything other than a solid is unethical. In countries where solids are used routinely for the biggest animals, they are also used for animals that aren't so big, shot angles that couldn't be made any other way, second shots on animals that seldom go down on the first shot, reduceing damage on diminutive critters, and reduceing damage on down but not yet out animals.
I'm sure that most of the soft-point only laws were enacted to stop people from flinging surplus hard-point around the game fields because it was the cheapest thing around, and for the most part that's good sense. Outlawing non expanding bullets completely, presupposes that everyone is an idiot and that there aren't special uses for special bullets.
 
I have long believed it to be illegal in Ontario as well, however, a check of the regs just now came up empty. That doesn't mean it's legal, just that I could not find the reg.

Be aware that full jacketed ammunition was a Geneva convention idea. It's purpose was to wound, not kill the enemy, thus reducing loss of life in war.
Our purpose as hunters IMO is to kill as quickly, and humanely as possible.
No game on this continent is tough enough to require solids to reach the vitals, and certainly no southern Ontario game.
A hunting solid, is much different from a FMJ military round.
Best leave the full jacketed for target work. Save you a lot of tracking thin blood trails too.
 
brentos said:
Not that I would use fmj for hunting, but someone told me it is legal to use. It's just unethical....is that true?
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In any jurisdiction where their use is is legal, the law should be changed!
and very angerous, one may severely wound more than one animal and still not recover it. Clean quick kills a rarity....

If anyone uses them because of the price differential between FMJs and hunting bullets, he should take up a new sport that he can afford.

I know that some Inuit hunters use them for head shots at seals and I have no quarrel with this. Go Nanook!
 
kevguy said:
I think in most places it is illegal. I know that in Ontario, Newfoundland & Labrador and Alberta it is illegal.
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This has been discussed multiple times.

No it is not...look for the section in the Ont. Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act that says this.

Ontario law does not stipulate bullet construction.
 
The only north american animal that would require a solid is the big bears. Brown and polar. And at that only for a second shot or an anchoring shot to break both front shoulders. Solids do have uses and if required do a great job that no expanding bullet can do. For deer no for brown bear they have there place rite behind a premium expanding bullet to the lungs. And they are legal to use in ontario
 
With so many deep penetrating, premium bullets available today, why anyone would use a solid in our land is a complete mystery to me. Africa - fine! North America, no need. and as has been noted, in most jurisdictions, illegal. Eagleye.
 
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