TERMINATOR101CA
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Moss. 930 will ghost load.
Can you "ghost load?"
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I would agree with you...except that I can make a 4th round count!
LOL! All joking aside there are very few places or times when hunting where ghost loading will even make a difference. Back in Quebec, I shot lots feral pigeons that invaded farmers barns, grain sheds and other poorly maintained structures and my 5 shot unplugged 870 Wingmaster was more than enough gun. I added a 2 shot extension at one point when one farmer called me up and said there was over 100 of the flying rats at his place. I don't know how many there were for sure but I do know there was 71 of the pests that hit the ground in under 6 minutes that day! That was the best live bird shoot of my life! LOL!
I didn't own a semi-auto shotgun in those days but that's still about the only hunting scenario I can think of where ghost loading might have any benefit.
Spoken like someone who doesn't get out much...
Put yourself in the middle of one good snowgoose hunt and you will wish you had a 6 shot mag extension as birds just keep dumping in. As for legalities there are many jurisdictions where a fourth, fifth, etc shots are legal, infact encouraged by managers - like the spring light goose season which is in full swing right now.
That is interesting?? Why then were we given this to go by just last week when pricing up a spring hunt in sask. Please share since it was always breaking the law when I hunted out there but spring goose is new to me
(d) with a shotgun of any description capable of holding more than three shells unless the capacity of the gun has been reduced to three shells in the magazine and chamber combined, by means of the cutting off or the altering or plugging of the magazine with a one-piece metal, plastic or wood filler that cannot be removed unless the gun is disassembled; or
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Sorry. That was the purpose of my post just to confirm that incase something changed for the special spring goose which I cannot find in the regs if it did. I corrected it. Sorry for not saying that in my initial post and thanks for pointing it out. Also as far as ghost loading and shotguns why ask that question??? at all if not for breaking the law. Not an issue with upland or must be one terrible shot for home defense take care
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If directed at me you totally misunderstood my post or I didnot take the time to clarify. Harsh and sarcastic NOPE that was not my plan a sincere thank you for pointing it out was my intention since you are 100% right which is why I changed my original post.
I asked the question initially since more than 3 is illegal everywhere I have ever hunted waterfowl in canada etc but with the special spring goose hunt I have no idea if some special federal revision has been granted so asked
My apologies
Side note and I don't know about Ontario but here it is also illegal to shoot any form of clay targets on private or crown land.
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There was talk about removing the 3 shot limit for the spring goose hunt quite a few years ago...even before I moved to Alberta in 2008...but I'm not sure if that ever came into effect. I return to Quebec every April, for the month, and always re-new my small game license there so that I can legally go out and shoot a couple Snows.
I have yet to see it printed on paper that the 3 shot limit has been lifted for the spring Snow Goose hunt so I hunt with the gun retricted to 3 shots. The second they allowed electronic calls to be used it was printed on the regulations sheet that is supplied with the "duck stamp" at time of purchase so one would assume that they would do the same for any other modification to those regulations.
SK is still limited to 3 shells, however there are no magazine restrictions in the US during the spring season. There is lots of waterfowlers who can't/won't wait until the snows get up to SK or MB and travel south of the border to hunt.That is interesting?? Why then were we given this to go by just last week when pricing up a spring hunt in sask. Please share since it was always breaking the law when I hunted out there but spring goose is new to me
(d) with a shotgun of any description capable of holding more than three shells unless the capacity of the gun has been reduced to three shells in the magazine and chamber combined, by means of the cutting off or the altering or plugging of the magazine with a one-piece metal, plastic or wood filler that cannot be removed unless the gun is disassembled; or
Not according to the Saskatchewan Wildlife Regulations.The regulations state in section 17 that the magazine can't hold more than two rounds, they don't actually state that there is a limit of three rounds total in the gun. People that I know used to purchase certain shotguns, because they would function with four rounds in the gun, although only two were in the magazine, as specified in the regulations.
http://www.qp.gov.sk.ca/documents/English/Regulations/Regulations/W13-1R1.pdf
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See what you are saying but the waterfowl would be under Federal regs so three total.
Reading the federal regulations one statement stands out:
Although you can get four rounds to function in some actions, only two rounds are actually in the magazine , and only one round is actually in the chamber, for a total of three rounds in these two locations combined. Therefore, would any laws actually be broken if the fourth round was not in either location?
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