Gun storage consideration

[genec]

Don’t know anything about muzzleloaders, but do NOT store ur gun in your car overnight - you can be charged! A car is classed as a transportation device, NOT a storage device. You need to take ur gun in to whatever your spending the night in for legal storage.

[Fenelon]

???. Perfectly fine to store your gun in the vehicle. If you want to be totally anal, put a trigger lock on it, put it in a sealed (zippered gun case) and lock it in the vehicle out of sight. Put it in the trunk if it's a car. Cover the case with a blanket if it's a truck. No CO that I know will have a problem with this.

[Fenelon]

Setup I am using 300g aerolite powerbelt and 2 white-hot pellets, the question i want to ask is 2 part how often do you pull the charge (gun sits in car overnight and in a blind while hunting and if you use powerbelts do you reuse or save for yearly sight in?.

I've never pulled my powder or bullet. Just pull the primer and the have the gun encased. Been checked several times by COs and it has never been a problem. I've had it sit 14 days in my ML before. I will change it out if we get a drizzly day with high humidity but I hunt out of a protected blind. Call your local district office and speak to the Enforcement Super to see what there "unloaded" policy is.

[genec]

???. Perfectly fine to store your gun in the vehicle. If you want to be totally anal, put a trigger lock on it, put it in a sealed (zippered gun case) and lock it in the vehicle out of sight. Put it in the trunk if it's a car. Cover the case with a blanket if it's a truck. No CO that I know will have a problem with this.

Don’t know where you got that idea from, but I’m a Hunter Ed instructor, and at one of our conferences several years ago, the chief CO for Ontario told us that you CAN be charged for this, as I stated previously. He said the firearm had to be taken into your dwelling site for the night.

[Fenelon]

Don’t know where you got that idea from, but I’m a Hunter Ed instructor, and at one of our conferences several years ago, the chief CO for Ontario told us that you CAN be charged for this, as I stated previously. He said the firearm had to be taken into your dwelling site for the night.

check 5(3) of the federal act for storage. scenario - you are parked in a clearcut on a logging road with your truck and slide -In camper. Your gun is unloaded, with trigger lock and in gun case, on back seat of your truck with blanket over case and truck is locked. This passed as ok whenever I’ve been field checked. Same deal when staying in a tent. You could also have a gun uncased and unlocked (but not loaded) in your tent or camper if you have concerns about bears where you’re camping.

[genec]

check 5(3) of the federal act for storage. scenario - you are parked in a clearcut on a logging road with your truck and slide -In camper. Your gun is unloaded, with trigger lock and in gun case, on back seat of your truck with blanket over case and truck is locked. This passed as ok whenever I’ve been field checked. Same deal when staying in a tent. You could also have a gun uncased and unlocked (but not loaded) in your tent or camper if you have concerns about bears where you’re camping.

You are quoting a FEDERAL act, which is NOT relevant to the Ontario hunting regulations!!
I have sent an email to the head CO for Ontario for a clarification on this, and will post his reply here when I receive it

[trimmer21]

???. Perfectly fine to store your gun in the vehicle. If you want to be totally anal, put a trigger lock on it, put it in a sealed (zippered gun case) and lock it in the vehicle out of sight. Put it in the trunk if it's a car. Cover the case with a blanket if it's a truck. No CO that I know will have a problem with this.

Neither will the Police as long as the firearm is unloaded,encased and out of direct view in a locked vehicle. The Police do it all the time rather than unpack service weapons and move them into their residences.

[glen]

The rules are hard to follow on purpose.

[rick_iles]

You are quoting a FEDERAL act, which is NOT relevant to the Ontario hunting regulations!!
I have sent an email to the head CO for Ontario for a clarification on this, and will post his reply here when I receive it

Don’t conflate the Firearms Act, which governs storage etc., and the provincial hunting regulations. Regardless of regulations, I would never leave a firearm in a locked vehicle.

[G.S.]

Don’t conflate the Firearms Act, which governs storage etc., and the provincial hunting regulations. Regardless of regulations, I would never leave a firearm in a locked vehicle.

X2 "I would never leave a firearm in a locked vehicle"