hunting with atvs in Alberta

I sent a message to my CO at home and will relay the news. I'm not holding my breath.
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This Old Norkse is just a hoot to visit with.



That's a couple of the coolest pics I have ever seen.
 
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/fr/ShowDo...o-ga:s_2//fr?page=1&isPrinting=false#codese:2

Your link is to a french site,but I did look up the English site.Once again ,different laws for different people,no consistency in our laws.If these laws are really in place for public safety,there should be no exceptions.

I do agree with you (on the french site thing too[oops]). I don't think that it is a safety issue at all, personally. Keep your finger off the trigger stupid, duh. I do believe that in the spirit of fair-chase only a handi-capped person should be able to shoot a big-game animal off of a motorized vehicle. But why the heck shouldn't I be able to shoot a couple gophers or coyotes out the truck window when I feel like it? That's all an opinion of course.
 
Those regulations under the Firearm's Act, refer to Transporting a Non-restricted Firearm. Is shooting from a stationary motor vehicle the same thing as transporting? I'd sure argue that it isn't. Doesn't seem like correct interpretation of the word "Transporting".
 
I sent a message to my CO at home and will relay the news. I'm not holding my breath.
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This Old Norkse is just a hoot to visit with.

Damn Noel those are some great pictures.......would love to hear that old boy's story one day......bet he has some tales to tell
 
Those regulations under the Firearm's Act, refer to Transporting a Non-restricted Firearm. Is shooting from a stationary motor vehicle the same thing as transporting? I'd sure argue that it isn't. Doesn't seem like correct interpretation of the word "Transporting".

Continue on down the firearms act to:

(2) Subject to subsection (3), an individual may transport a non-restricted firearm in an unattended vehicle only if

What is their interpretation of the word "transport"?
If the vehicle is unattended,it obviously is not in motion is it?Yet they still consider the firearm to be "transported while it is in the stationary vehicle.So at what point after the vehicle stops,is the firearm no longer being transported?
I would not want to be standing in front of a judge while he decides what his interpretation of the word "transport" based on the way the firearms act is written.
 
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Raises some interesting questions that whole transport aspect of it. If I have a letter on board a postal delivery truck, even when it stops at the light, its certainly in transport. That's why its in the delivery truck.

But if a farmer stops his pickup and loads his 22 to take a shot at a gopher, is the loaded rifle in transport at that point?

It seems to me they (at least) wanted to prevent firearms being shipped or stored in the vehicle loaded. That's reasonably clear. But why even use the word transport, what meaning does it add to the law, unless it in some way narrows the reason why its in a motor vehicle.

Why didn't they just say no loaded firearms in motor vehicles. For some reason they added the word transport. So by adding the word transport, what meaning did that word intend to add?
 
I think it might be more along the lines of - If it's not in "use" or "storage" then it's in "transport". So then, a firearm in a unattended vehicle is in "transport" only because it's not in "use" or "storage". It can't be in storage because only your home is the storage place. It can't be in use because you are not there to use it. The problem is, that's not the section that matters when it comes to shooting from a vehicle. The firearm is not in "transport" when you are shooting it. It is in "use".
 
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Does that old fella have a farm up north of Cochrane?
Yes

I know I've chatted with him, and I just can't place it exactly... Does he have pigs?
No, never has to my knowledge.

Out of respect for Him I am reluctant to give any details about him specifically. When hunting season simmers down or after Christmas I might treat you guys to a couple albums of pictures for some great hunting heritage.
Some of you boys better share some of yours tho!;) And not the goofy grasshoppers on a meatpole crap either.:slap: I spent the last year researching this fellow and his Dad and other locals. I doubt you will be dissappointed.

I just love the fact that there is probably 50 or 60 years between the photo's but that rifle still looks good. :)

No, it would be more like 76 years. :cool:
He and his brother would trick shoot with it, wore the barrel out and paid $20 to have it relined a way back when in Calgary. We shot targets for a couple hours this summer and though neither of us did very well, we sure had a fun time, laughing like a couple kids. He's a dear friend.
 
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I think it might be more along the lines of - If it's not in "use" or "storage" then it's in "transport". So then, a firearm in a unattended vehicle is in "transport" only because it's not in "use" or "storage". It can't be in storage because only your home is the storage place. It can't be in use because you are not there to use it. The problem is, that's not the section that matters when it comes to shooting from a vehicle. The firearm is not in "transport" when you are shooting it. It is in "use".

It doesn't matter what you or I think,or how we interpret the wording of the law,what matters is a judges interpretation of the law.Are you confident enough in your interpretation of the law to believe that a judge will see it the same way?
 
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ancient thread resurrection I know but I am now among the "old & crippled" that need such permits now.
Am thankful that they are available but man is it ever frustrating to find any info (at least for me it has been) on what is actually allowed with the ATV permit....specifically, as discussed in this old thread...can you shoot fron an ATV with this permit.
The crossbow permit "doable's" is fairly well covered in the reg's but not the ATV, very vague
 
I hunt from. and am authorized to discharge my rifle from my ATV. I have a discharge permit for each calendar year, issued five years at a time by the Provincial Fish and Game Officers. I can also hunt and shoot from my truck when all conditions have been met for safe discharge. The reason for my discharge permit which applies to both Off-Highway Vehicles (OHVs), and commercial pattern cars and trucks is that I am a double, above-knee amputee thanks to a particulaarly clever Taliban Improvised Explosive Device (IED) command-detonated to take me out back in 2008. It worked for a few years, where I didn't hunt due to bigger ongoing life challenges, however I am happy to say that I returned to hunting and sport shooting with a vengeance around 5 yearrs after my physical wounds had mostly healed aside from minor revision surgeries.


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I hunt from. and am authorized to discharge my rifle from my ATV. I have a discharge permit for each calendar year, issued five years at a time by the Provincial Fish and Game Officers. I can also hunt and shoot from my truck when all conditions have been met for safe discharge. The reason for my discharge permit which applies to both Off-Highway Vehicles (OHVs), and commercial pattern cars and trucks is that I am a double, above-knee amputee thanks to a particulaarly clever Taliban Improvised Explosive Device (IED) command-detonated to take me out back in 2008. It worked for a few years, where I didn't hunt due to bigger ongoing life challenges, however I am happy to say that I returned to hunting and sport shooting with a vengeance around 5 yearrs after my physical wounds had mostly healed aside from minor revision surgeries.


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That’s awesome buddy, only the strong survive and you most definitely are a survivor.
 
A disabled or elderly person can hunt without having to discharge a firearm from a vehicle.I have helped a friend get his father to and from a stand where he sat in a comfortable chair with a rest to shoot off of.We drove him to his stand,and then drove the vehicle out of sight.If he bagged an animal,he still needed help to dress and recover it anyways,so he couldn't hunt totally on his own even if he could shoot from a vehicle.
how is it you speak for everyone just mind your situation and all will be fine
 
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