Transporting Firearms Before Legal Shooting Time

[trimmer21]

I'm hoping someone was going to step up and say. I don't think the fish would mind. Lol

Yep,we'll never get the smell out of them fish,now.

[Fox]

Remember guys, a bow for the purpose of the MNR and hunting laws is considered a firearm. This means that as you walk out to your hunting spot before dark your bow also needs to be unloaded and encased on all 6 sides, those little straps that go over the cams on a compound are not good enough.

[Larson]

Could any one supply the Chapter and Verse of the Regs where it says that firearms must be encased before or after legal shooting time?

[line052]

Legal shooting times in e regs, do the search on pdf document.

[DGearyFTE]

Could any one supply the Chapter and Verse of the Regs where it says that firearms must be encased before or after legal shooting time?

Larson - This is the 2014 version

http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/stdprodcons...ent/239841.pdf

See page 23.

Before hunting, check local sunrise-sunset times. You may only hunt from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset (exceptions: night raccoon, spring wild turkey, and, in some WMUs, pheasant). If you are in an area usually inhabited by wildlife, during the period from half an hour after sunset to half an hour before sunrise you must unload and encase any firearms (including air gun, pellet gun, bow or crossbow) in your possession.
To be considered encased, firearms must be enclosed on all six sides.

[redd foxx]

Night hunting
20. (1) A person shall not, during the period from half an hour after sunset to half an hour before sunrise,
(a) hunt wildlife;
(b) have a firearm in the person’s possession in an area usually inhabited by wildlife, unless the firearm is unloaded and encased; or
(c) shine a light for the purpose of hunting wildlife.

Here ya go from the FWCA.

[baby123]

i WAS RIDING MY qUAD back to camp, with my gun in a Koplin gun case..unloaded and case was locked with those hair pins that come with it...come around the corner, after dark, and there sat the MNR...stopped me, looked at the case and said it was illegal...I was just going to ask why...and another quad come around the corner, and he took after him..lol.. so I booked it outta there..had nothing to hide...just didnt feel like a confertation....was wet and cold...not in the mood...just saying

[Pat32rf]

If the removable end was on the Kolpin, that's the most you need to do. No reason to have a padlock on it...Really you don't even need the pin on it any more than you would need to sew the strap closed on a soft sided case.
Some guys like to write lotsa tickets, knowing that many will just pay instead of taking the time off work and driving the miles to fight it. Maybe they get "points" for the most ticket books used but they give COs a bad name. We used to have one of these but he is gone now....

[redd foxx]

If an officer writes a ticket knowing that the charge is invalid..he could very well be committing an offence himself. I think it is called malicious prosecution under the criminal code.

[rick_iles]

If an officer writes a ticket knowing that the charge is invalid..he could very well be committing an offence himself. I think it is called malicious prosecution under the criminal code.

Nope, no such offence.