hunting license from the lower states

[Canuck44]

Hunting licenses get you a 1 year expiry on your form 6...depending on the invitation, you might not get this otherwise. Or so I've heard

Matt if you know you are going to attend matches throughout the year at a US club then have them extend to you an invitation to all their shoots for the year. Every year I get at US club I shoot at to extend me an invitation to their shoots held through out the year, The letter states what time of the month they shoot their regular matches and states they hold other events through out the year. All my Form 6's have had a one year expiry.

I hit the border hand them the Form 6 and the letter from the club and am on my way usually within a minute or two. I should say I have never tried to enter say three weeks from the date of the shoot but have arrived 10 days early for helping set up for the State Match and have never had a problem. The only question they have asked is where I am going to stay and then not always.

Take Care

Bob

 

[667]

Matt if you know you are going to attend matches throughout the year at a US club then have them extend to you an invitation to all their shoots for the year. Every year I get at US club I shoot at to extend me an invitation to their shoots held through out the year, The letter states what time of the month they shoot their regular matches and states they hold other events through out the year. All my Form 6's have had a one year expiry.

Take Care

Bob

There was a time when the only events the BATFE would recognize invites for were NRA sanctioned competitions... 'Looks like they've loosened up on this by issuing permits for people submitting F6NIA apps with invites from other orgs...

I'll continue to go the hunting lic. route as some of the matches I go to aren't exactly "recognized" by BATFE... I have in the past tried for a F6NIA using just such a club invite and was denied... (They actually phoned me and suggested I forgo the whole match invite route and reccmmended the hunting lic. option...)

Showing a match invite at the border isn't really to support your F6NIA... You already have the approved permit... All an invite does is support your stated reason for entering the US

Hell... I know a guy who went to Chicago for a wedding... When asked by DHS where he was headed he told them "a friends wedding"

They asked to see his invitation...

 

[Canuck44]

There was a time when the only events the BATFE would recognize invites for were NRA sanctioned competitions... 'Looks like they've loosened up on this by issuing permits for people submitting F6NIA apps with invites from other orgs...

I'll continue to go the hunting lic. route as some of the matches I go to aren't exactly "recognized" by BATFE... I have in the past tried for a F6NIA using just such a club invite and was denied... (They actually phoned me and suggested I forgo the whole match invite route and reccmmended the hunting lic. option...)

Showing a match invite at the border isn't really to support your F6NIA... You already have the approved permit... All an invite does is support your stated reason for entering the US

Hell... I know a guy who went to Chicago for a wedding... When asked by DHS where he was headed he told them "a friends wedding"

They asked to see his invitation...

What you say is true although my LTATT to the US border is only valid if I have the Form 6 with me and the invite to shoot in the US or in your case the hunting license. The question is kind of moot since I have never been stopped on the way to the border but I guess it could happen. My paperwork has been checked by Canadian Border Services though when returning to Canada.

Take Care

Bob

 

[667]

What you say is true although my LTATT to the US border is only valid if I have the Form 6 with me and the invite to shoot in the US or in your case the hunting license. The question is kind of moot since I have never been stopped on the way to the border but I guess it could happen. My paperwork has been checked by Canadian Border Services though when returning to Canada.

Take Care

Bob

Well... of course. The Ont. CFO won't give a border ATT unless you have a valid F6NIA.
As far as being "checked"... We have a few funny(to us) stories about our crossings.

Going south 99% of the time we get pretty much waived on through... A cursory look at our permits and a "what are you bringing in?"

Once in a while you get the guy who usually works the rail yard and has no idea what a F6NIA is.. Asks us what it is and why we need it and then says... Awww.. WTF... You're GTG 'seeya.

Then you get the (cough)female(cough) DHS officer who either also doesn't know what to do or is too lazy to screen us gun totin' Cannucks who sends us to secondary with the four-way flashers on... Her collegues none to pleased to have to do the extra work of screening three guys who clearly have been here many times... But she sent us so they gotta go through the motions.
It ends with a parking lot show and tell and a suggestion that we should wait until we're out of the immediate border inspection area to pull over and "arm up"

Then there's the time yup... The (cough)female(cough) DHS officer sent us inside and after a little wait an officer emerges from the office with our papers in hand..."Who's got the Colt?"
My buddy says... "That's me"
"The Colt rifle... It's stolen"
WTF...?
"Yeah... It came up stolen.... "
"But.... It's probably just an error in the data base... You guys are GTG.."

The CBSA have always been okay... Been sent to secondary three times, but Twice got chased away without showing anything... and the third... I suspect the young CBSA guy(s) were CGN-ers, 'cause they said they just wanted to see (out of interest) what we had... Another parking lot show and tell
We showed our guns and they told us about the guns they had just bought and asked us where they could go shoot...

It's great that we can so easily travel to the US and almost completely unfettered, enjoy our chosen shooting activities
The comparative lack of complete bull#### when it comes to guns and shooting in the states is somewhat alien, but refreshing.

Playing by "Big boy rules" at matches with hundreds of competetors and noone gets hurt...
Uber-capacity magazines and... Noone gets hurt.
Suppressors abound and... Noone gets hurt.
Competitors carrying their handguns in the hotel dining room at buffet time and... Noone gets hurt.
Not one steel target is shrouded and... Noone gets hurt.
Shooting in natural terrain... In several directions and... Noone get hurt.
I could go on, but... You're probably thinkin'..


F***, this guy talks too much

 

[Canuck44]

Nope not at all. Very similar stories about going south. Coming back, as mentioned earlier, last year wa s the first year I didn't end up in secondary and the first year the guy in the booth knew what he was looking at and what to do. The other times it really was a case of me explaining to the supervisor and the lady at the counter what they were looking at and what they should be looking for.

The funniest moment was three years ago when they asked for my truck keys. Off they went and were gone for about five minutes. Upon their return they said I was fine and was free to go. They could not have checked my guns because the key to my gun case was in my pocket. I guess they must have seen the two Master locks on the case and assumed I had trigger locked the guns.

Now the border folks are armed and they have some idea what a pistol is and some exposure to civilian shooters they will relax a bit.

Take Care

Bob
ps Glad I don't have to put up with the BS you guys have to deal with in Ontario. If you have an IDPA or IPSC membership card we, here in BC get all four Western Provinces on our LTATT plus the Yukon and NWT.