Setting up a Private Gun Range on our farm

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Does anyone have any experience or advice on setting up a private pistol only gun range? I went through the regulations and they look fairly easy to comply with. We have 240 acres on our family farm and therefore plenty of space to set up a pistol range. Since we have very hilly land there are many ideal locations with huge dirt backstops. We legally can shoot our rifles wherever we want but I want to setup my own private pistol range. It wouldn't be open to the public but just our close family and friends (it is such a pain in the butt to go to the community range). Harvey
 
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/1410773-Range-Help

He got his approved.

https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...icted-handguns-in-my-backyard-perfectly-legal!

He got his approved


Read through those. There are other threads but those are probably your biggest help. Lots of time when "can I have a private range?" Thread comes up it's full of "you can shoot wherever man, dwellings n such" or on the other hand people proclaim you need a 500ft tall barrier from the outside world.

My range is similar to the 2 threads above, hence where I got all my ideas and info, I'm not gonna post my range here cause I know the queens cowboys visit this site frequently.
 
Reviving an old thread here because this topic is one of the reasons I joined :). When I click on the links in the above posts, it comes up as "This function is disabled by the site". Am I blocked from access because I'm a new member? Or are these threads gone from the site? Thanks!
 
twentymtn said:
Reviving an old thread here because this topic is one of the reasons I joined :). When I click on the links in the above posts, it comes up as "This function is disabled by the site". Am I blocked from access because I'm a new member? Or are these threads gone from the site? Thanks!
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They do not show up for me either!! So its not just you.
 
twentymtn said:
Reviving an old thread here because this topic is one of the reasons I joined :). When I click on the links in the above posts, it comes up as "This function is disabled by the site". Am I blocked from access because I'm a new member? Or are these threads gone from the site? Thanks!
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Nah likely deleted posts.
 
OkayShooter said:
Nah likely deleted posts.
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I figured out that if I search some of the words in the link like "handguns in my backyard perfectly legal" then I can access the threads that way. So the threads are still there but that way of linking to them is dead. Whatever... I found the info I'm looking for so problem solved. Thanks for responding!
 
They upgraded the forum software so the format of the links changed...

Advice is the same. Get documentation from your municipality showing firrarms discharge is not prohibited. Talk to your CFO - whichever province you are in. They will actually send you the range construction guidelines, but you can find those yoirself. Set up the range to comply with that. The cfo will send an inspector who will either approve or tell you what you need to improve. Rinse. Repeat.
 
LAC99 said:
Even with a private range it would be illegal to fire a prohibited weapon?
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This is a weird one.

So you can't shoot any of the oic prohibited at all, no discharge was part of the oic. 12.6 or 12.7 no problem. The rest of the 12.x, by my understanding, the rcmp wont give you an att. But if the gun were stored on location of the range, you would be legally allowed to shoot it.

Someone else might be able to better clarify, but that's my understanding.
 
C96 1897 said:
This is a weird one.

So you can't shoot any of the oic prohibited at all, no discharge was part of the oic. 12.6 or 12.7 no problem. The rest of the 12.x, by my understanding, the rcmp wont give you an att. But if the gun were stored on location of the range, you would be legally allowed to shoot it.

Someone else might be able to better clarify, but that's my understanding.
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There's no att to one's private range - the address is the same as the storage location. Having a certified private range gives you a piece of paper stating you are ok to practice there. Again, whether you can shoot there is regulated by the municipality.

When the private range is certified, the CFO can impose whatever conditions they like, which can be handguns only, restricted handguns only, blanks only (yes, that can be a thing) etc... But if they do not then 12.x are ok _at you range_. If they impose a handguns only condition then you have to step outside your range to shoot even your NR...

For the latest oic prohibited. It is not the oic that disallows discharge, it's the amnesty which allows you to keep them until the deadline without getting charged but without shooting. If those firearms were to be grandfathered or you were to have prohibited privileges like a business does then the limitations the amnesty imposes would be removed.
 
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Contact your municipality and explain what you want to do, include your legally owned land, address, coordinates etc and see if you are even able to build a range.

Figure out which caliber templates you want to qualify for, figure out the berm heights you need, firing line locations etc - all on the internet rcmp official range guidelines

Next contact the cfo with all the documents from above as well as the email chain from the municipality.

From there you'll probably need an agent of the cfo's office to come to the site and do their own measurements and surveys.

What happens next is dependent on if your piece of land is viable and then you'll be able to construct your range

That's the short of it.
 
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