target shooting private property

enefgee said:
Prior to the restricted category being invented, handguns were registered but their use was not restricted, therefore you could go down to the local gravel yard and plink with your 9mm or 22 without inadvertantly killing babies. Since the invention of "Restricted" such activities immediately cause the deaths of innocent children.
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I remember hunting ground hogs with my father and his Smith and Wesson M39-2. you had to sneak up on em good, but they didn't run far if you hit em with a speer 115 JHP...those old ones turned inside out fast and came apart :) oh the good old days
 
In the 50's handgun hunting was legal in Ontario. You could carry one with a letter from your Local Police Chief as to character.......Harold
 
A gun's a gun. Would be nice to get to shoot restricted firearms where we can shoot non-restricted. But for now, just carrying it out of your house warrants need for an ATT.
 
I have been told by a few (Ontario) firearms instructors that the "threshold" on your house is the barrier. So if you have an attached garge with an entrence to your house you can theorectically shoot from your garage as long as you don't cross the threshold.rse there are noise and other by-laws that may come into play but that's what I've been told. One particular instructor who teaches from a shop detached from his house needs an ATT to carry his handguns for his courses from his house to his shop. Now thats retarded! TC
 
Cocked&Locked said:
Fawk, the ministry here in Ontario of all places, wanted to institute a trial handgun hunt to bring in american hunting dollars. Guess who convinced them not to do it.....Ontario Federation of Hunters and Anglers...said it would make the public think hunters where a bunch of dangerous redneck hillbillies.
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Do you know roughly when this occured? I've been a longtime member of the OFAH and this is the first of heard of it. I do a newsletter for my local F&G club and it would make an interesting article. TC
 
trky chsr said:
Do you know roughly when this occured? I've been a longtime member of the OFAH and this is the first of heard of it. I do a newsletter for my local F&G club and it would make an interesting article. TC
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It was a few years ago now, maybe as many as five. Heard it from a conservation ministry employee who was involved with setting the hunting limits/seasons. You'd have to do some research now, OFHA doesn't like to talk about it...i remember chewing at them in their booth at the outdoors show that year..they where apparently quite surprised at the number of Ontario hunters who owned handguns and would like to hunt with them, but their argument to me at the booth was that they "weren't really a safe or legitimate hunting tool"
 
Cocked&Locked said:
It was a few years ago now, maybe as many as five. Heard it from a conservation ministry employee who was involved with setting the hunting limits/seasons. You'd have to do some research now, OFHA doesn't like to talk about it...i remember chewing at them in their booth at the outdoors show that year..they where apparently quite surprised at the number of Ontario hunters who owned handguns and would like to hunt with them, but their argument to me at the booth was that they "weren't really a safe or legitimate hunting tool"
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With friends like that, who needs enemies.
Idiots. f:P:
 
Cocked&Locked said:
It was a few years ago now, maybe as many as five. Heard it from a conservation ministry employee who was involved with setting the hunting limits/seasons. You'd have to do some research now, OFHA doesn't like to talk about it...i remember chewing at them in their booth at the outdoors show that year..they where apparently quite surprised at the number of Ontario hunters who owned handguns and would like to hunt with them, but their argument to me at the booth was that they "weren't really a safe or legitimate hunting tool"
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Fuddsters!
 
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