r/canadaguns Aug 19 '26

Buy recommendations vortex razor gen 2e 1-6 vs nightforce nx6 1-6

4 Upvotes

It's for hunting in thick timber on 308 bolt gun


r/canadaguns Aug 19 '26

Misc First NR Makasi on GP?

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47 Upvotes

$2500 on the dot so not even a flip


r/canadaguns Aug 19 '26

Feets / Collection / My build Just for fun

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93 Upvotes

Looks legit to custom make Sulun Arms SR-45 Revolver - .45 can be turned in revolver.


r/canadaguns Aug 18 '26

Gun and gear reviews How is your AD500A doing?

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64 Upvotes

While I am waiting for the preorder Carmel to arrive. I decided to pulled the trigger on this Turkish ***. I am really regrets about the decision I made. It is sh*t, bought it from Tenda and tried to return or exchange it but they told me to contact the manufacturer. So the problem is the barrel nut always
gets loose just after firing less the 40 rounds PMC 223 ammo. The grouping at 100 yards are mysterious so I realized it’s because the barrel is moving so I hand tightening the barrel nut really tight and went back to the range again and it is still getting loose, Handguard is also get loose easily. I put the blue loctite on the muzzle brake so is not loose now. I am not sure if I loctite the barrel nut will be helpful. Seems a lot of people bought it so I would like to know if you have the same issues and how you solve the issue.


r/canadaguns Aug 18 '26

Shitpost / Memes Too easy

94 Upvotes

r/canadaguns Aug 18 '26

Misc Who got their NR Carmels?

3 Upvotes

I pre ordered the carmel from tenda but haven’t heard anything. I was wondering if there is any movement from other stores?


r/canadaguns Aug 18 '26

Buy recommendations KS7 Defender Gen 2 Shotshell holder

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26 Upvotes

I prefer velcro from Perroz Designs (no i dont work for them nor get a kickback), but theres no place on this firearm to mount one.

Anyone know of a 3 or 4 round mlok shell holder that doesnt include a pic rail? I don't want matchsaverz as they are only one extra shell, and i have a few, although I'll have to go with that if I must.

I don't have the KS7 carry handle. The Defender model I have doesn't come with it.

Any thoughts on on-board ammo carry are welcome. Thanks


r/canadaguns Aug 18 '26

Feets / Collection / My build Mossberg 590r chisel

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32 Upvotes

Super pumped to have picked up this 590r chisel. Pun intended.

I grabbed a couple 6 round shell holders off amazon and got them mounted. On the receiver and the stock. OSight had a sale on the new se dpp so I picked one of those up aswell. I need to pick up a proper adaptor for it before I can actually use it but this printed one is good for mock up. Removed the the plastic cover for the chisel sight adaptor and was able to move the Magpul mbuis back a few slots. Have a carlsons rifled choke tube on the way and plan on adding a +1 tube extension and a ms1 sling. Over all pretty happy with this purchase. And yes I left the yellow mossberg tube cover on just piss people off


r/canadaguns Aug 18 '26

Feets / Collection / My build This is a new one for me. Got this old Mossberg 400 awhile back and finally took it apart to clean. Somebody used a stick as a magazine plug.

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90 Upvotes

r/canadaguns Aug 18 '26

Buy recommendations Looking for sks stock recommendations

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Hi all, finally became an owner of a chinese type 56 sks. Looking for stock upgrade options.

I dont wish to put 69 different mods on my sks,

I also dont mind losing access to my bayonet.

Looking for a stock upgrade thatll be compatible with bipods/ mags and maybe just maybe ill put a short scope on her but not right now.

I was considering a choate dragunov stock as it looks filthy sick. But really dont want the fab defense ones. What other stocks or chassis systems would you guys recommend and from where. Please advise


r/canadaguns Aug 18 '26

Feets / Collection / My build The inexpensive trainer rifle might have lost the plot a bit.

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43 Upvotes

Tikka T1x 22lr 20" barrel

-KRG Bravo w/ 9.5" ARCA rail

-MDT GRNDpod bipod

-Area419 barricade stop

-Vortex Venom 5-25x56 scope

-MDT 30MOA rail and medium height MDT Premier rings

-TNA reverse fake can w/ compensator

-NDR 15 round magazines

-Anarchy Outdoors extended magazine release

-Yodave trigger spring


r/canadaguns Aug 18 '26

Feets / Collection / My build Rite of passage

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125 Upvotes

Alright, here goes. 3rd firearm ever. Got it for 599 plus tax from gundealer. Chinese sks. Stock aint that bad. All numbers match except the bolt handle.

Growing up this was the only firearm ive seen being used the most around me and had my PAL only so i could own one(other reasons too but most prominent is this).

Touching my very own for the first time literally made me tear up and i cant exaggerate the feeling at all.

Who knows whats in store for tomorrow, rather buy one than cry for not being able to own one ever. Thanks to all you guys and gals for really kicking out my indecision and getting me convinced to get one.


r/canadaguns Aug 18 '26

News / Politics / Activism Canadians Are Buying More Guns Like it or not, many people feel safer with a firearm at home

173 Upvotes

https://macleans.ca/society/canadians-are-buying-more-guns/

Canadians Are Buying More Guns

Like it or not, many people feel safer with a firearm at home

Gun licence applications are on the rise in the Greater Toronto Area. Between 2016 and 2025, the number of applicants for possession and acquisition licences, or PALs—the permits that allow Canadians to buy firearms—have increased by nearly 50 per cent. In some parts of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, like the eastern suburb of Peel, they’ve more than doubled. And southern Ontario isn’t the only place where this is happening. The number of PAL licence holders across Canada is quickly nearing 2.5 million, the highest count on record.

For a lot of Canadians, this doesn’t square with our self-image. Our gun culture—or supposed lack thereof—has always been a major way we differentiate ourselves from the U.S. We tell ourselves that, unlike our trigger-happy southern neighbours, firearms in Canada aren’t a cornerstone of our lives or our Constitution. To a certain extent, this is true.

In the past few decades, as American gun culture became more strident, Canada has enacted a series of ever-stricter gun-control laws. In 1995, Parliament passed a landmark bill introducing universal licensing for all firearms and a registry to track them. After the 2020 rampage shooting in Nova Scotia, the Trudeau government outlawed more than 1,500 models and variants of firearms. That list was expanded in 2024, and again by the Carney government in March of this year. In 2022, Canada also put a freeze on handgun sales. Compared to America’s open-carry laws, which allow grocery shoppers to carry handguns as they buy their broccoli, Canada is obviously tame by comparison.

But it would be wrong to say that this country has no gun culture. I know because I’m part of it. I shot a rifle for the first time as a Boy Scout when I was 12 years old. Now I shoot recreationally at a range near my home in Ontario. I’m part of the seven per cent of Canadian adults who own guns. It’s a number far lower than America’s 32 per cent, but it’s certainly not nothing.

People are buying guns now for different reasons than they did a few decades ago. In the ’70s, only 20 per cent of Americans said they owned a gun for self-defence, with the vast majority using their firearms for hunting. Nowadays, self-defence is the main motivation for more than 75 per cent of gun owners. A similar trend followed in Canada: in 2023, 30 per cent of gun-owning Canadians said self-defence was their primary reason for owning a gun, up from only six per cent in the late 1990s.

Gun ownership is also changing demographically: the days when gun owners were almost exclusively older white men like myself are gone, and the gender, age and racial makeup of the gun-owning public is looking a lot more like that of Canada’s general population. Since the 1980s, women have been the fastest-growing demographic of gun owners, now representing 13 per cent of them.

The rise of gun ownership is a natural consequence of a world that seems a lot scarier than it used to. I recently spoke with a man who said he’d been considering getting his firearms licence for some time, but Trump’s threats to make Canada the 51st state finally pushed him over the edge. The link between threatening events and gun ownership is clear. During the COVID-19 pandemic, for instance, gun purchases in both the U.S. and Canada rose significantly. In Canada, our safe storage regulations mean most guns are kept in locked boxes or safes, making their self-defence capabilities pretty meagre. But for many people, simply owning a gun offers a feeling of security.

Gun ownership is also on the rise among newcomers. Many move to Canada from countries where guns are more strictly regulated and want to take advantage of the freedom to own a firearm. On the flip side, some newcomers come from places where guns are the norm. In Pakistan, for example, there’s a strong hunting culture, and firearm ownership is common. Turkey has a massive small arms industry, and guns have a deep symbolic value. It’s why the Turkish president gifted Mark Carney a revolver at the NATO summit in July.

The growth in licensing and ownership is partly due to the rising popularity of tactical sports, like 3-Gun or IPSC, which simulate combat, and which have spread largely via social media. Entirely new demographics are being exposed to the idea of gun ownership, disrupting the traditional model, which relied on family members passing down skills and firearms. At my rural gun range, the mix of members and guests reflects these changing demographics.

We’ll never have a gun culture like the U.S. Our licensing laws, training requirements and other restrictions prevent it from taking hold, even if there was an appetite for it. We have no second amendment enshrining the right to bear arms or castle law to protect gun-wielding homeowners. Nor do we have a historic cowboy culture to look back on. By and large, Canadian gun owners are also proud of our safety culture. They know that when people get killed by guns, gun control ramps up. So safety measures aren’t viewed as an imposition, but rather common-sense rules that make the use of guns safer for all of us.

But what we are getting closer to is a culture where, like in the U.S., guns are a flavour of normal. In rural areas, this has always been true, but more and more city-dwellers are now interested in guns. The idea of owning them has always been framed in Canada as something deviant—a bad behaviour reserved for those with malicious intent. This is changing. And as the world gets more dangerous, or at least feels like it, Canada’s conventional wisdom on guns will keep shifting toward greater acceptance.

A.J. Somerset is the author of Arms: The Culture and Credo of The Gun.


r/canadaguns Aug 18 '26

Shooting Tires for spalling protection.

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170 Upvotes

Anyone else try this out? Using an old car tire as a spalling catcher for your steel gongs. Saves the wood of your home-made target boxes thats for sure, I don't think I had any go through even after smacking the gong a couple of times with the .308


r/canadaguns Aug 18 '26

Buy recommendations Where can I buy side blinders?

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At least that’s what I think they are called. https://www.pillasport.ca/products/pilla-blinders
Pilla is out of stock but I was hoping that something like this would be easily available. Can’t find any in Canada. Is my search word so off? Can someone help please.


r/canadaguns Aug 18 '26

News / Politics / Activism TACCOM Canada, 12 and 13 Sep 2026

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42 Upvotes

TACCOM (TACTICAL & COMPETITIVE SHOOTING SPORTS SHOW)

Canada welcomes the leading manufacturers and Industry Leaders within the Tactical and Competitive shooting communities with the aim of engaging our diverse shooting landscape.

We are committed to breaking new ground and providing the Canadian shooting sports community with not only a one of a kind experience, but the first of its kind. Join top manufacturers and industry leaders as we come together under one roof to celebrate the products, competitions, and lifestyle that any firearms owner can enjoy.

TACCOM is dedicated to showcasing the very best of the tactical and competitive shooting disciplines with regards to products, training and making industry leaders accessible.


r/canadaguns Aug 18 '26

Feets / Collection / My build Enfield No5 Jungle Carbine

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115 Upvotes

Original No5 buttstock put aside for safe keeping.


r/canadaguns Aug 18 '26

Fix my gun Henry lever .22 H001

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41 Upvotes

I’m having a firing issue with my Henry. It works occasionally but it may take 3 or 4 tries to fire a round. I think the firing pin needs to be replaced. Is there anywhere in southern Ontario along the 401 corridor that I can take this to for repairs or parts? Thanks!


r/canadaguns Aug 18 '26

Feets / Collection / My build Tacticool

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50 Upvotes

Been working on some fun 22 builds in my free time. What have you guys been up to lately?


r/canadaguns Aug 17 '26

Misc Is anyone working on an alternative MK-15 handguard?

17 Upvotes

I think the handguard looks a bit ugly, but that’s just me personally. I was wondering, as the title said, is anyone working on a MK-15 Handguard, preferably FAL, M16 style? From my understanding the handguard is proprietary sadly.
It would be awesome if someone could whip up a handguard for us, if they haven’t already started. TNA maybe?

Thanks.


r/canadaguns Aug 17 '26

Gun and gear reviews Regretted to sell my Chinese sks.

26 Upvotes

I owned a unfired sks bought for 5xx as my first gun, and sold it for 700 after 3 months. I was happy to get rid of a 70 years old gun at that time. After one year, I have tried many guns from my friend and myself, like .22lr , shotgun, lever, bolt, I finally understand the value of a sks. Should I get a new one? I have been thinking it for the whole night. I cannot work, sleep and eat. Please help me.


r/canadaguns Aug 17 '26

Feets / Collection / My build Picked up some wood and steel 👌

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39 Upvotes

Picked up a Benelli 121 SL80 from a friend, and it needed an appropriate sling.

Chambered in 2¾" 12 gauge with a fixed cylinder bore. This is the third 121 I've owned, and is unique as it comes with rifle sights and a raised comb on the buttstock.


r/canadaguns Aug 17 '26

Feets / Collection / My build Joined the sks club

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83 Upvotes

Got on gunpost for 400, 1954 tula Russian I think. After 2 months of PAL now my fourth gun


r/canadaguns Aug 17 '26

Shitpost / Memes Guys… I think I’m done with Gunpost

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192 Upvotes

r/canadaguns Aug 17 '26

Feets / Collection / My build The "MK47" at home by TM 22

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61 Upvotes

Built in progress, still need a charging handle kit, rip my wallet....