.303 British
- Thread starter Bones6966
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In Ontario during a large game season you are not allowed to have a shotgun with anything about #2 shot or a rifle with more than 400 ft/lbs at the muzzle (basically a 22) unless you hold a license to hunt the large game and the firearm fits what is then legal during the season . basically I am not allowed to use my 223 to coyote hunt during a bow only deer season.
blasted_saber
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- A blue part of Ontario
This is wrong. You absolutely can hunt coyotes during a bow season for deer.
Yeah, the only thing is, during the deer gun season, you also have to have a deer license to use your 223. Pretty sure you would need a deer license if you were hunting 'yotes with a bow during deer season. I still hunt (until a couple of years ago) bear during the moose gun season (the early part), so I have to buy a moose license, but I don't hunt moose.
Are you 100% sure about that? I was very clearly told by the MNR people that you have to have a moose license if you have a rifle in the bush during moose season. It has been several years, but I don't very often see laws relaxing when it comes to hunting. I gave the regs a quick once over and didn't find it. Maybe it's changed? I now I would get it right from the horse's petoot, because fines are pretty darned steep. If you didn't have to have both, why not buy only the bear license?
To be #####ily precise, the Winchester 1895 was made in .303 British, but not many and not recently, so the basic premise is correct.
I think the .303, which is good for just about any NA big game, is fading only because it ain't sparkly. It won't hit 3,000 fps and doesn't come with a black Kevlar stock, so it's not worth consideration. The fact that it and the .30/30 were the most common - and successful - rounds in Canada for 50 years gets ignored.
Accuracy depends on the individual rifle. I was looking tonight at a target a friend shot at 100m. Three round group could be covered with a quarter, which is absolutely Minute of Moose...
There are 125 gr bullets available, making an accurate one just fine for coyotes and such.
If there is an open season for bear and you have a bear license you can hunt bear with a rifle, if that bear season overlaps with a moose season or deer season it does not mean you need a deer or moose license as well, you only need a big game license if using a centerfire rifle during an open big game season, no matter what season.
maltextract
Regular
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- Rural Manitoba
I'm looking for one to restore. I reload and cast for .303 already, so you should sell it to me ��
A few have posted that reloading components for the 303 Br are hard to find and expensive. This is certainly not true for any of the guys I know who reload. All the brass you want is available at every range in Canada for free, powder and primers cost no more than for any other cartridge, and .311-312" bullets are easy to find and cost the same as most 308", less than some.
As well, 303 bullets are specifically designed for 303 velocities. Consequently, they perform very well on big game, as do their cousins designed for the 30-30 Win.
As far as killing power, included in the many hundreds of thousands of big game animals taken around the world using the 303, the world record bull moose was shot in 2013 by an acquaintance up here using his "old" SMLE. The rack has an official point score of 263 1/8.
The accuracy of most 303s that have bright, sharp, rifling is perhaps better than 99% of hunters who head out every Fall with their rifles that they have sighted in and shot less than a box of shells though during the past year.
Bones6696, for what it's worth, I would buy one or two boxes of ammo and give the rifle a try. You may be surprised at how easy it is to shoot and how accurate it is.
Okay, we're getting ready to head out for moose and caribou. Taking my 9.3X62 and my wife her 308 RSI, but we could be taking one of ant number of different rifles that all of you use successfully every year to replenish your freezers. Good luck to all of you!
Ted
As well, 303 bullets are specifically designed for 303 velocities. Consequently, they perform very well on big game, as do their cousins designed for the 30-30 Win.
As far as killing power, included in the many hundreds of thousands of big game animals taken around the world using the 303, the world record bull moose was shot in 2013 by an acquaintance up here using his "old" SMLE. The rack has an official point score of 263 1/8.
The accuracy of most 303s that have bright, sharp, rifling is perhaps better than 99% of hunters who head out every Fall with their rifles that they have sighted in and shot less than a box of shells though during the past year.
Bones6696, for what it's worth, I would buy one or two boxes of ammo and give the rifle a try. You may be surprised at how easy it is to shoot and how accurate it is.
Okay, we're getting ready to head out for moose and caribou. Taking my 9.3X62 and my wife her 308 RSI, but we could be taking one of ant number of different rifles that all of you use successfully every year to replenish your freezers. Good luck to all of you!
Ted
No, but... If you are in an area with an open season for bowhunting moose with a concurrent open rifle season for bear, and you are licenced to bowhunt moose you CANNOT possess a rifle to hunt the concurrent bear season... a ridiculous regulation, but a very real one.
There is nothing shtf about this when the ammo as the OP mentioned it is $40.00 a box of 20.
Justify shooting it by shooting it.
If you can hit things close up your doing good.
If you can hit things at long distance your doing great.
If you dont like the gun sell it and buy something you like.
If the Allies used it to kill the bad guys then it is good enough for deer and coyotes, yes?
Rob
freddyfour
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Brant County, Ontario
Would that still apply if you were not in possession of the archery moose seal?
Depends on where in Ontario you are. Can't hunt with anything larger than .275 down here in SW Ontario.
