We've had to stop shooting at my local range because the bighorn sheep herd walked right into the line of fire. I live pretty close to where OPs video is from.
The only rule for transport - not left unattended - is unloaded. Trigger lock and case is not required.
I use a case since I load up in my driveway and people dont like to see open carry firearms in a residential area, but if you’re going from a garage or relative privacy you could technically throw an unlocked and unloaded non restricted in you vehicle and take off to the range or crown land.
I feel like this will stir up debate but I’m stating the rules as described on the rcmp website for firearm transport and not necessarily what I do or what most people actually do.
You may also run into the cop that pulls you over not knowing the law and then having to deal with that bullshit. I usually case mine. My dad trigger locks as well, because he knows someone who had that interaction with the police, waiting for the supervisor to show up to tell the constable that she was wrong and let dad's friend go.
Rcmp gave me shit for walking around on private land with an unloaded NR (SKS) with no trigger lock. RCMP generally don't know fuckall about laws but it doesn't really matter, arguing with them is no fun cause they always know best 🙃
They literally teach this at the CFSC course at my club lol. That the average RCMP officer is very ignorant/uneducated about firearm laws, and that you shouldn't argue with them because you'll just get yourself in trouble.
Not me. Loaded mag in the glove box, gun in the back seat ready to go in case I happen across a rogue coyote. Not really interested in what the pony bois think about it.
Sometimes it is a logging road, service road, some gravel access. Not everywhere is a legal highway. In BC there is a distance from a highway that needs to be followed.
In Saskatchewan you can legally shoot from roads, just not along or across them. Surprised me too, but that and the rules around transport described here are what make road hunting grouse a fairly popular way of taking them, not how I like to do it but I've seen it done totally legally. I've also seen a deer shot from the edge of a road that while surprising at the time, was completely legal.
We have basicly identical rules for hunting here in NS as well. Ive heard an RO at my range say they were pulled over for a stop sign and was told all there rifles had to be trigger locked.
I always thought regular transport had to be locked or in a cased for some reason like storage
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u/Perfect_Diamond_1128 Aug 18 '26
is that rail even going to hold zero is the question