Flintlock pistol for hunting?
- Thread starter trebor2880
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And for the flintlock rifle, you don't even need a PAL. Go figure!
A SOR/98-464 is a regulation that prescribes antique firearms for the licensing purposes. Some rimfire and center-fire handguns that were manufactured before 1898 are prescribed as antiques that do NOT need a R-PAL. Strangely enough, there is nothing explicit there about a flintlock pistol manufactured before 1898. However, by analogy to those prescribed as antiques, it seems to me that such a flintlock pistol manufactured before 1898 would also be classified as antique for the licensing purposes.
A flintlock made pre-1897 is an antique and doesn't require a PAL.
In BC the hunting regs say you can't hunt with a handgun though, so at least for me it's a moot point.
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But a flintlock (or any antique that you don't need a license for) is neither of those, so then could you use one of them? Because I think I need to go to Ontario if so.... lol (Also will need to buy a flintlock pistol...)
On a sorta related note, I hate how an antique flintlock pistol doesn't need a gun license, and nor does an antique or reproduction flintlock rifle, but a reproduction pistol is somehow so much deadlier that it must be restricted...
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There is something about cartridges....I believe at least for deer/moose/caribou etc... Has to be centre fire cartridge. You may have better luck in the states. In some parts of Michigan you can legally hunt with any handgun over .35 caliber.
NB hunting regs describe the various firearms you can use
ººA bow with a draw weight of less than 10
kilograms;
ººOr: A crossbow with a draw weight of less
than 68 kilograms.
• Deer, moose and bear hunters using firearms
or bows must use:
ººA centre-fire rifle of any calibre;
ººOr: A shotgun with ball, slug or lead shot
larger than size BB (including buckshot) or
steel shot larger than size F;
ººOr: A bow having a draw weight of not less
than 20 kilograms together with arrows fitted
with broadheads no less than 20 millimetres
in width;
ººOr: A crossbow with bolts fitted with
broadheads no less than 20 millimetres in
width;
ººOr: A muzzle-loading firearm.
Intererestly, it says "firearm" not rifle.
ººA bow with a draw weight of less than 10
kilograms;
ººOr: A crossbow with a draw weight of less
than 68 kilograms.
• Deer, moose and bear hunters using firearms
or bows must use:
ººA centre-fire rifle of any calibre;
ººOr: A shotgun with ball, slug or lead shot
larger than size BB (including buckshot) or
steel shot larger than size F;
ººOr: A bow having a draw weight of not less
than 20 kilograms together with arrows fitted
with broadheads no less than 20 millimetres
in width;
ººOr: A crossbow with bolts fitted with
broadheads no less than 20 millimetres in
width;
ººOr: A muzzle-loading firearm.
Intererestly, it says "firearm" not rifle.
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So then I need to go to NB to hunt with a flintlock pistol? Lol
What other provinces? Anyone from Alberta care to comment on this?
