Shotgun Magazine Capacity.
- Thread starter Johnny_Zanni
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3 is the max you can use in ontario for hunting I get checked when deer hunting the controlled shotgun/muzzle loading season.
I reckon if you are actually hunting with the shotgun you have to follow the law on mag capacity while huntingwith a shotgun.
If you were hunting with a bow or crossbow and wanted to have a shotgun along for "protection" you could take out the plug and fill the magazine.
What is you setup? Type of gun, barrel, ammo, sights? And how well does it group at what distance?
If you were hunting with a bow or crossbow and wanted to have a shotgun along for "protection" you could take out the plug and fill the magazine.
What is you setup? Type of gun, barrel, ammo, sights? And how well does it group at what distance?
I'm sure that the CO's here in Ontario would be laughing their bags off as they wrote you up a ticket if you tried that one on them
It's just going to be a backup for my 30-06 and for if we have to go into the thick stuff.
Maverick 88
28" smooth bore with modified choke (Only one I have)
Tru-Glo fiber optic front bead, brass center bead.
Winchesters Supreme 3" copper plated 00 buck 15 pellets.
Don't get caught with them in the gun. However ghost loading is an option in the Grey area
I've had COs ask how many bullets I had in a sxs 10ga. They often aren't the brightest skittle in the package
I asked the same thing when I was bringing my KSG out last year. The law is written that there be a maximum of 3 shells total chamber + magazine. KSG has magazine(s) with a disconnecting switch. My thoughts were plug both sides to two rounds (sad I know) so I can have a couple slugs for deer, and some birdshot for grouse. In conversation with the mnr, although technically my interpretation is correct, that was not the intent of the rule. I chose to just plug one side completely and use one tube - don't have enough disposable money to be the test case....
There is nothing in the Federal Firearm rules about shotgun magazine capacity, unless it is a semi-automatic and then it is restricted to 5 in the magazine like an AR or other semi.
Rules limiting to 2+1 are in the Federal Migratory and Upland Game Hunting Regulations (or adopted into all of the provincial ones, either way the same), as I believe, and thus where the limitation comes into play. This is why if you shoot deer or other non-migratory animals you can have whatever fits in a non-semi-automatic firearm.
Ontario may have this 2+1 ruling in it Provincial regulations, however, so you need to check that. And I would check it too: there are a lot of people who think anything more than 3 rounds in a shotgun is completely illegal from a Federal stand point or law, and this is not true. I know when using a pump shotgun for back packing in Alberta, not for any hunting, I have had COs tell me it was perfectly legal as they seen it to have 8 rounds in it.
Rules limiting to 2+1 are in the Federal Migratory and Upland Game Hunting Regulations (or adopted into all of the provincial ones, either way the same), as I believe, and thus where the limitation comes into play. This is why if you shoot deer or other non-migratory animals you can have whatever fits in a non-semi-automatic firearm.
Ontario may have this 2+1 ruling in it Provincial regulations, however, so you need to check that. And I would check it too: there are a lot of people who think anything more than 3 rounds in a shotgun is completely illegal from a Federal stand point or law, and this is not true. I know when using a pump shotgun for back packing in Alberta, not for any hunting, I have had COs tell me it was perfectly legal as they seen it to have 8 rounds in it.
CreamySmooth
CGN frequent flyer
Yup, same with Sask. birds it's 2+1, everything else is open to what you can fit in your mags on a non-semi.
Ontario does have this 2+1 thing. Here, it doesn't matter what you are hunting with a shotgun, even deer with slugs. If it's a shotgun, you are limited to 2+1
Once upon a time boys who loved fishing and hunting and being in the wilderness were the source of almost all conservation officers. But now we are a modern and enlightened society so they recruit from a more diverse demographic.
