How to know where it is possible to shoot outside

Rick911

Rick911

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I live in a rural area with plenty of woods and rivers (QC), but how do i know for sure that i am allowed to shoot somewhere.

Lets say i am 5KM away from everything in the woods and (with my luck it is plausible) a cop comes out of nowhere. How can he tell if i am legal or not ?

Is there an answer or its like everything else: no clear answer, cops do what they want.

I'd like a scenario where it would be unarguable 100% legal without being on my property (or on someone else's that gave me a permission) or at range.

Thanks for taking time to answer.
 
I open up google maps on my pone and if I see no houses for a few kms and no livestock then it's fair game. (In the middle of nowhere of course). Oh and make sure there is a backstop or hill to shoot against.
 
Went to some land that allowed hunting and shooting, public use land (not crown land), with a few friends for some target shooting. Set up a few paper targets on trees, with a large natural berm behind as a backstop.
There were signs stating that hunting/shooting was allowed, their website said that hunting/shooting was allowed, and there were even little signs with a guy with a gun and a green circle around him (i.e. hunting/shooting allowed).

-OPP showed up and drilled us for not having our firearms registered.
-Kept telling them that the registry was dead but they were like @__@ Why u no register?
-We were so far into the boonies that OPP's radios didn't even work.
-OPP checked serial numbers of all of our guns against the Firearm's registry, in case we had stolen the firearms, drilled us more when they couldn't find any results (because no one has access to the registry data for long guns).
-OPP claimed that we had filed off the serial numbers on our Cooey Model 60's (we had three of them, they DON'T HAVE SERIALS).
-OPP claimed that I had painted over my serial number on my Cooey, even though all other markings were 100% legible.
-OPP said we were trespassing, wouldn't listen to us when we told them that there were signs stating that shooting and hunting was 100% allowed.
-OPP told us to leave and escorted us back to the "main" dirt road a few km's away.

Moral of the bullet-point story is:

1. Be careful where you go shooting.
2. You can "trespass" on "private property" with an arsenal of firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition, shoot up the place, and get away without facing any charges...apparently.
 
ModerateSniper said:
Went to some land that allowed hunting and shooting, public use land (not crown land), with a few friends for some target shooting. Set up a few paper targets on trees, with a large natural berm behind as a backstop.
There were signs stating that hunting/shooting was allowed, their website said that hunting/shooting was allowed, and there were even little signs with a guy with a gun and a green circle around him (i.e. hunting/shooting allowed).

-OPP showed up and drilled us for not having our firearms registered.
-Kept telling them that the registry was dead but they were like @__@ Why u no register?
-We were so far into the boonies that OPP's radios didn't even work.
-OPP checked serial numbers of all of our guns against the Firearm's registry, in case we had stolen the firearms, drilled us more when they couldn't find any results (because no one has access to the registry data for long guns).
-OPP claimed that we had filed off the serial numbers on our Cooey Model 60's (we had three of them, they DON'T HAVE SERIALS).
-OPP claimed that I had painted over my serial number on my Cooey, even though all other markings were 100% legible.
-OPP said we were trespassing, wouldn't listen to us when we told them that there were signs stating that shooting and hunting was 100% allowed.
-OPP told us to leave and escorted us back to the "main" dirt road a few km's away.

Moral of the bullet-point story is:

1. Be careful where you go shooting.
2. You can "trespass" on "private property" with an arsenal of firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition, shoot up the place, and get away without facing any charges...apparently.
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Exactly the kind of BS i fear.
 
Simcoe forests it sounds like, but target shooting is not allowed there,
Opp does patrol as well as conservation,
its not private property, it's public and you can still be trespassed from public land,
For doing prohibited activity.
 
godheadx said:
Simcoe forests it sounds like, but target shooting is not allowed there,
Opp does patrol as well as conservation,
its not private property, it's public and you can still be trespassed from public land,
For doing prohibited activity.
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That's not it. More like 300 miles from there.
 
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