Magazine capacity restirictions for hunting with a bolt action near Merritt BC?

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Hey all, first off apologies if this has been answered somewhere else.

I have a question about magazine capacity for my bolt action...

Is it illegal to have a ten round magazine in a bolt gun when hunting near Merritt BC? The reason I ask is because I was out on the weekend and everyone I was showing off the new rifle to was so bent on the magazine being illegal they couldn't see the nice new rifle.

This of course got me curious and concerned so I looked it up in the hunting regs booklet as well as on the RCMP website and inparticular the FAQ where it says there is NO capacity restrictions on a bolt action of any caliber, and if anyone is curious the reason it has a ten round magazine is because that is what the Savage Model 10 FCP-SR comes with right from the factory.

So if anyone has any information that can show me that I am wrong and I need to pick myself up a five rounder before my next outing please let me know and provide reference that way I can read for myself the information, thanks in advance for any information anyone can provide.
 
Federally, no restrictions. Provincially I would guess no restrictions (im not aware that any province limits mag capacities in rifles, but could be wrong). Municipally, again I would hazard a guess no restriction.

So I would say your fine, and your friends are thinking about the federal restriction on semi auto centrefire rifles (which is five). Case in point the zillion Lee Enfield 303s with 10 round magazines or Winchester Model 94 lever action which can hold 6-7 rounds.
 
Unless your provincial natural resources folks have specific magazine capacity restrictions in place in their hunting regs, then there is no mag limit on a bolt rifle. Since there are no such restrictions here in Ontario (other than on shotguns, again, hunting regs), and none of the other provinces and territories as far as I am aware, I would say you are good to go. If available, you could hunt moose with 30 round mags in a Remington 700 , if you so choose.
 
"...the Savage Model 10 FCP..." No Savage made rifle except the No. 4 Lee-Enfields Savage made during W. W. II are exempt from the silly mag capacity law. It has nothing to do with hunting anywere. No. 4 Lee-Enfields are exempt from the silly mag capacity law by name.
As mentioned, you'd best check your local hunting regs.
 
"...the Savage Model 10 FCP..." No Savage made rifle except the No. 4 Lee-Enfields Savage made during W. W. II are exempt from the silly mag capacity law. It has nothing to do with hunting anywere. No. 4 Lee-Enfields are exempt from the silly mag capacity law by name.
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Right from the source.

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/bulletins/bus-ent/20110323-72-eng.htm

From section 3

However, magazines designed to contain centrefire cartridges and designed or manufactured for use in a rifle other than a semiautomatic or automatic rifle, do not have a regulated capacity.
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Sweet thanks guys, after looking at the regs and the RCMP website I had a feeling that I wasn't doing anything wrong. But them having 30 to 40 years on me plus the way they all insisted I was doing something I shouldn't, I was really starting to wonder. Thanks again for all of your help guys.
 
For hunting it is the province that determines the amount of cartridges allowed set out in the regs. it is sometimes very unclear. I know when I started hunting in Quebec except for the lee 5 was the stated limit. I hand to buy special enblocks for the M1
that only held 5 rounds while the fed. regs allow for 8 but are not hunting regs
 
marlin said:
Only time it is illegal is if the magazine will fit other semi -autos.
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Wrong...its if the magazine was DESIGNED FOR a semi auto. 10rd pistol mags are perfectly legal in semi auto long guns.

I'm not sure why the Enfield mag is exempt by name....it was originally designed for a bolt action, only later was it ever used in a semi.
 
sunray said:
"...the Savage Model 10 FCP..." No Savage made rifle except the No. 4 Lee-Enfields Savage made during W. W. II are exempt from the silly mag capacity law. It has nothing to do with hunting anywere. No. 4 Lee-Enfields are exempt from the silly mag capacity law by name.
As mentioned, you'd best check your local hunting regs.
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The exemption doesnt make any sense at all considering NO bolt action rifles have magazine restrictions.

Theres no law its exempting it from.
 
Bolt action = no mag limit. I think Manitoba limits you to five rounds when hunting, I recycled last years regs so I don't have a handy reference. I don't think it matters that the mag has more capacity so long as you only have five rounds in the gun. Check your provinces hunting regulations closely, they usually hide that stuff in an obscure corner somewhere.
 
In BC the only hunting mag limit is on shotguns using shot or buckshot being limited to two in the magazine,if you use slugs in your shotgun the CO's do not consider you to be hunting migratory birds so back to no mag limit for bears and you can remove the plug and load up as many as you can fit.Now the 10 round lee enfield magazine is interesting, the reason it is mentioned and exempted in law is there was an experimental model that was made using the bolt action rifle and converting them to FULL AUTO:rockOn:.So many Canadians had the enfield that it was easier to give an exemption than make thousands of new criminals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_Automatic_Rifle
 
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Yup, Merritt area, Region 3 sub area 3-18 and 3-19 it is forbidden to use a 10-round magazine in a bolt action rifle within the road allowance (15 metres on either side of the middle of a road with less than three lanes) of a numbered highway and any two lane or greater public road.


Of course that goes for any other firearm too.

Who the f*** are these guys who are advising you?

Get new friends.
 
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