r/canadaguns • u/Round-Inflation-7112 • 4d ago

Shooting Who’s down to build a range?

I’m so tired of RSO telling me when i can stand and sit and if i can shoot a 12g at a paper target
Im in ontario, who wants to grab some acres out in parry sound and build a private range with me?

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u/Brapika 4d ago

The dream has always been to own 10,000 acres and never have to tolerate another humans bullshit. Starting bid in $50M though.

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u/Round-Inflation-7112 4d ago

i feel like 100 is reasonabke

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u/throwaway11100217 4d ago

I'd settle for 1,000

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u/Round-Inflation-7112 4d ago

nice little house on the property too?

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u/throwaway11100217 4d ago

Honestly my dream is a ton of land in the boonies with no building code where I can build my own little camping hut and just use the land for recreation like camping and stuff and let my close friends and family I trust use it too.

Just my own piece of the forest that can stay exactly that way and thats guaranteed to be available when I want to go camping. I'd build myself a shooting range and a disc golf course lol.

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u/IndependentNinja1465 4d ago

Best 170 grand i ever spent

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u/throwaway11100217 4d ago

Not a bad price at all, how long a drive from your main residence?

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u/IndependentNinja1465 4d ago edited 4d ago

Its my home, property is surrounded by crown land and there is 2 creeks and a river that basically block out any sane attempt at accessing the area on three sides

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u/3abte7kejad 4d ago

The dream

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u/SwordJabbingAction 4d ago

You can still have a neighbour within 400m in every direction on 100 acres.

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u/deepbluemeanies 4d ago

That doesn't necessarily matter - there is no province wide legislation on minimum distance to dwellings. Some municipalities have set it to 200m, 400m, while others have no restriction whatsoever (including in the GTHA).

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u/SwordJabbingAction 4d ago

There are articles online of rural folks following the law while shooting on their own property that end with rcmp showing up because a neighbour reported “full auto” gunfire or some other complaint. The real ideal is to have property large enough that you don’t have any neighbours within earshot.

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u/deepbluemeanies 4d ago

Gun shots carry so unless you are way, way out and remote it will be heard, and that's okay. Some people will call the cops over anything...in my area it is very hard to discern the exact location (land parcel) of gun shots due to thick brush/forests. The only federal charge is for unsafe discharge which they would have to prove, the Crown isn't going to lay a charge based on what someone thinks they heard emanating from ...somewhere.

But it's good to be cautious; I don't fire anything to big on my property to keep the noise down, but even the sound of a .22 carries. If you own guns/shoot you should have legal defense insurance just in case - it's not expensive and can provide up to 1 million toward legal fees for any firearms offense.

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u/ablemount 4d ago

If only there was some way to silence the guns....

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u/cannuckwoodchuck13 3d ago

100 is smaller than you think. There's 60 acres of farmers field behind my house and you would 100% annoy neighbour's still with the sound of gunfire. 

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u/Round-Inflation-7112 3d ago

yeah but 100 acres surrounded by crown land is a lot different than rural farmland

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u/cannuckwoodchuck13 3d ago

Thats also a good point. Might be hard to find.