r/canadaguns • u/Tristan1477 • Mar 13 '26

Fix my gun How to plug a Canuck hunter

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I just bought this Canuck hunter 20 gauge used and it didn’t come plugged. I cannot figure out how to get the mag tube open to insert a plug. Tried prying the circle cap you see out figured as is was like other spring retainers but didn’t budge, any help is greatly appreciated.

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u/GreenMan165 Mar 13 '26

Is that hole drilled all the way through into the mag tube? With my Mossberg Maverick that just has a hole drilled through, I just drop a wooden dowel down through the hole cut to appropriate length that blocks to 2 in the tube. When the season is over and I want to remove it, I tip the shotgun muzzle down, give it a shake until the dowel pops out of the hole, pull it out and done.

Some of my shotguns came with precut standard dowels for 5 shot magazine tubes that had some small o-rings attached to reduce shake noise, those are an optional idea if that matters, so long as it's a dowel with a diameter small enough not to have to be squeezed in, should work just fine.

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u/Tristan1477 Mar 13 '26

It does go all the way through, I was looking for a physical plug to buy for it but worse case I’ll have to do that