Two guns while big game hunting ??

Superbrad said:
The regs for each species tell you what firearms you can use to hunt what game and what the season dates are..... by WMU. You can perfectly legally hunt grouse on the way to your stand with birdshot in your gun then switch to a slug once you get there.... As long as you have licenses for both deer and grouse, you can carry two guns or a combo gun..... providing they meet the requirements for your WMU and season.....
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So what if a person can only AFFORD one gun and is trying to help feed his family ?

I know people who hunt deer with an SKS because that is all they can afford. Guess you don't have the RIGHT to feed your family if you can't afford all the guns required for each species eh?
 
Superbrad said:
OK.... How about this... this is the hunting section... we are discussing a hunting regulation and whether or not you can carry two guns when hunting.....

Maybe you should visit the firearms politics section or even the off topics or wherever you chose to rant and go tell them all how ignorant us hunters are and how you know better than the rest of us about the mass national conspiracy big picture .... I strongly suggest using alloidal title and Canadian hate crime laws in your post when you create your thread....

Aside from that, please stay on topic as I don't think the OP's thread has completely run it's course.....
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The topic IS interrelated, that's the part you obviously do not get.

No problem. Carry on in ignorance.
 
madashell said:
So what if a person can only AFFORD one gun and is trying to help feed his family ?

I know people who hunt deer with an SKS because that is all they can afford. Guess you don't have the RIGHT to feel your family if you can't afford all the guns required for each species eh?
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What does that have to do with the topic?.... And no, I strongly advise you against "feeling" your family.... that can get you into all kinds of trouble.....
 
Superbrad said:
What does that have to do with the topic?.... And no, I strongly advise you against "feeling" your family.... that can get you into all kinds of trouble.....
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Edited the typo.

Because several brought the size of gun regs. into the discussion.
 
madashell said:
So what if a person can only AFFORD one gun and is trying to help feed his family ?

I know people who hunt deer with an SKS because that is all they can afford. Guess you don't have the RIGHT to feed your family if you can't afford all the guns required for each species eh?
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Hunting is the single, most expensive scheme designed to get free meat - paraphrased from Patrick F. McManus.

For over 40 years, I have pretty consistently filled my freezers with game and fish, but if I calculated the price, I would have been a lot better off buying Kobe fillet mignon.
 
Papaclaude said:
Hunting is the single, most expensive scheme designed to get free meat - paraphrased from Patrick F. McManus.

For over 40 years, I have pretty consistently filled my freezers with game and fish, but if I calculated the price, I would have been a lot better off buying Kobe fillet mignon.
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Brilliantly said and very true.

Decades ago it was a man with a basic rifle and a few rounds to help feed his family. Now it's a huge racket. Guess that's why it's now referred to as a sport. I think a lot of the regs. have helped guide it in this direction.

This is NOT progress.
 
I long for the days of being able to carry a suppressed Blaser R8 (already lost 2 full freq of hearing due to work) and a Rugar 22LR pistol in a holster in order to acquire camp meat during a backcountry canoe moose hunt. I feel I will never see these things in my lifetime though it does not detract me from writing letters, voting and supporting those that would help to bring these dreams to life. It is unfortunate that this is the way, but besides political agendas we must also abide by the lowest common person. There are a lot of uneducated people out there that without warning signs and rules/laws would and could not only get themselves hurt or killed but could also cause unnecessary harm or death to people and animals. I know most of us would think it common knowledge to not shoot a deer with a 22LR as it would be unethical. Would it work, sure, but there are people out there that don’t have the same thought process that we do. So you make it a law to simply not have one with you, and it takes away the chance of having a wounded deer. Remember a lot of laws are for that weakest link in the human chain. Does it suck that the rest of us suffer… ya, but because of that weakest link I would still wear hunter orange even if we didn’t have too!

Remember every hunter/shooter is another one on our side no matter what their beliefs in the "system" are; it is better to not turn on each other but go out and educate that weakest link so those laws don’t need to be there. I don’t think of this as ignorance, just being a realest.
 
blasted_saber said:
Just a note here: Shotgun hunt arent necessarily about safety, they're also about limiting the harvest. IE Rifles are more effective.
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That might be the case in some areas. But when I look at the "extra deer seals" list year after year and just about every WMU in SouthWestern Ontario has tons of extra seals for shotgun/muzzle loader only (no rifle area there at all), they don't seem to be worried too much about over harvest - the extra seals indicate over population that they want knocked back.

And I would suggest that over 90% of Ontario deer are shot at ranges somewhat under 100 yards whether by rifle or shotgun - so not a great advantage to be using a rifle (except maybe some mental advantage, comfort level, or perceived advantage on the part of the hunter) - and yes, I would rather hunt with a rifle then a shotgun for deer, even though 27 yards is the longest shot I have ever had to take on a deer with either bow, shotgun, Black Powder or Rifle.
 
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