did any of you ever hunt with handguns back in the day?

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Just curious.

I was talking to a buddy of mine a while back and he used to tell me all the things that at one point was completely acceptable and now, is not.
He was telling me back in Newfoundland, he used to have an ATC signed by the police chief for his town, as this is what you had to do, so that he could take his handgun with him in the bush.

Did any of you guys ever do this back when?
Was it ever a hassle to get permission like it is now?

Thanks for your time.
 
mbogo3 said:
I believe you could hunt with them in Ontario up until the early 50's...........Harold
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Try 1978 . Get the Fish and Game regs from your library . The Fish and Game Act was changed in 1979 to include , 'the hunting with pistols , revolvers or handguns is prohibited in Ontario' . Before that it was completely legal and i took my last legal game in Ontario , a moose with a Ruger Blackhawk .41 mag in the fall of 1978 . I know of no 'authorized or certified' ranges in northern or northwestern Ontario until 1979 so our ATT's said , 'for the purpose of target shooting' , but didn't specify where and since it was legal under the Fish and Game Act to hunt with handguns , we target shot at game . The world has changed for us who lived and experienced freedom . In 1977 i walked into Elwood Epps and bought a live Stengun with 2 extra mags for 90 bucks . The clerk wrote it up , stuffed everything in a bag and i went to the OPP station to register it . I used to let it go for years before it became evil . I have a safe filled with truely evil guns that i hunted with using 20 and round round mags for years before they became too evil . My God , think of the children . Up until the time the AR-15 went restricted i had heard of one person in Canada being killed with an evil 'assault' rifle . A cop in Toronto shot and killed his partner with an H&K 91 , which i also owned and hunted with . My Grand Dad gave me my first revolver for my birthday in 1963 . An Iver Johnson top break 9 shot .22 . I carried it until about 1970 at which time i lost it . I've never known a sportsman who will come home from a day of hunting and decide to knock over a corner store . Before 1979 our society was divided between a tiny percentage of criminals and the rest were law abiding good citizens . After the Basford bill , i believe C-51 our society was changed to criminals and the rest of us were suspects . In 1979 our range was authorized and our ATT's came worded , 'for target shooting at an authorized range' .
 
Here's a few photos I took circa 1958 while deer hunting in Ontario.

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Ron
 
Wow.. brings a tear to my eye...

Seriously the good guys were truly punished with the new laws. I would love to hunt with a handgun, what a challenge.
I think that even if you don't want to hunt with one, it never hurts to have a sidearm for just in case scenarios.

Thanks for the pics!
 
I think having a .22 pistol should be allowed out in the bush.....good for getting some small game for the dinner pot and saves you carrying in 2 rifles.
 
The regs I saw were 50's vintage so that's what I alluded to.I have some 1934 AB regs does that count? Harold
 
Regarding the 3 photos I posted above...I didn't mention it but in that group there is a police officer, a dentist, a high school teacher, an electrician and a business man that employed about 30 people.....pretty dangerous group. :)

Ron
 
back in the mid 1960,s I got a carry permit in southern Ontario and I could carry my hand gun anywhere. all I needed to get this permit was for a O.P.P. Officer in my County to sign the application.
 
I'd like to be able to carry a .22 or .410 pistol for those days when I'm muzzleloading and don't see anything other than a million grouse.
 
my brotheinlaw and his friend used to shoot rats with handguns in the town dump in the
sixties . also hunted jack rabbits legally. my uncle owned a business in a small ontario town and when the place got broken into his handgun went with him as protection .
 
I was told by the local registrar around 1980 when I still lived on the farm that as far as he was concerned I could hunt with my handguns, but if he got an official complaint he would have to act on it. He recommended that I always have a long gun with me, and to be discrete. That was down around Cambridge, On.
 
Given the number of uneventful handgun hunting circumstance outlined by various members on this thread, I would say that it should be quite possible to dig up hard statistics showing why prohibiting handgun hunting now is a knee jerk needless reaction by the current left wing useful idiots (props to Stalin and Lenin for the term 'useful idiots').

They, the anti-gunners, really must be afraid that there are actually competent, responsible gun owners out there that would show them as simpering fools in need of serious psychotherapy.
 
I'd be one of the guys that always had one with me, a day after it becomes legal to do so.

I'd love to be able to carry a .22 handgun for grouse, and would really like to be able to carry something larger, when in the bush, year round.

<sigh>

One step at a time.

Cheers
Trev
 
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