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[sgt_zim]

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I tried to paste the link to the article but I can't seem to. It's on Blaclocks Reporter, an excellent independent publication.

What does this look like for Americans wanting to hunt in Canada? Looking at an Ontario moose hunt for Fall 2023.

Planning on bringing either my GBL 45-70 or my Mauser 9.3x62. Former has a 6 round tubular mag, the latter has a 5 round hinged floor plate mag.

 

[Pheroze]

What does this look like for Americans wanting to hunt in Canada? Looking at an Ontario moose hunt for Fall 2023.

Planning on bringing either my GBL 45-70 or my Mauser 9.3x62. Former has a 6 round tubular mag, the latter has a 5 round hinged floor plate mag.

That's a good question. You will probably need to comply with the magazine capacity restrictions. I don't know the list of banned firearms. Part of the issue is that I believe some bolt actions have been caught because they look like the wrong kind of gun.

 

[sgt_zim]

Guess I'll have to call RCMP. Man, I thought our federal legislature was full of tryannical retards. You guys have us way beaten, and that's no mean feat. Just tried wading through this bullshit.

Canada Gazette, Part 2, Volume 154, Number 3: Regulations Amending the Regulations Prescribing Certain Firearms and Other Weapons, Components and Parts of Weapons, Accessories, Cartridge Magazines, Ammunition and Projectiles as Prohibited, Restricted

May 1, 2020, Part 2, Volume 154, Number 3, Canada Gazette

canadagazette.gc.ca

 

[Tundra Tiger]

@Sabattiboy .... Those sound like low numbers for here. My wife just bought a new one - first time in years. And hers gets strong use for work. She paid $1400. My youngest daughter just bought a new one too... it was similarly priced. I am understanding of my wife's... I was critical of my daughter's. For what it's worth, I don't have a cell phone. I've never owned one and have no plans for that to change.

 

[mark-hunter]

In my family, i am using only second hand mobiles, which my kids dump.

 

[CoElkHunter]

Agree on Moscow (and St Petersburg) being quite developed even if not to say luxurious. It is like any big city (and Moscow is massive) there is such a concentration of capital that quite a lot of people there are very well off. Rent in certain places can be higher per sq meter than London or Paris.

Just as they say “beware of the man with only one rifle…” also “beware of the man with only a mean or average” using only one statistic can hide way too much information. It is just not pertinent to compare average Russian standards of living/annual pay to Muscovites’.

Edit: I visited both Moscow and St Petersburg as I was dating a Russian girl. (Don’t worry I also dated a Ukrainian one )

"From Russia with Love"? LOL

 

[CoElkHunter]

@Tundra Tiger
The younger set would live on the streets to afford the latest cell phone. I am now hearing $600 to $800 as common numbers.

"600-$800"? Ha! That might have been 5 years ago. My iphone7 was $800 in 2017. Need to keep up Sabattiboy! Ha! Ha!

 

[Ray B]

Those of you that have cell/smart phones: Does it bother you that various governments and marketers monitor your movements? Where you go, what stores you patronize and what information you view?

 

[mark-hunter]

@Ray B
Partially, yes.
But, this cannot be avoided. (unless you live in a rainforest with a tribe without any electronic devices)
Even without phones, modern person have always a traceable pattern: work-home-hobby-shopping. Traceable.
Using credit cards, traceable.
Using mobile phone, traceable.
Using home PC, traceable.
Using fixed phone, traceable.
If that this not enough, then you have also annual tax reports.
If you are European legal gun owner, even your medical records are practically public, accesable to police.

On the other hand, my life is so legally boring and predictable that who ever is possibly tracing me, will be bored to death.

There are no untraceable people in modern world. It is just a matter of how hard someone is willing to trace somebody. mobile phones are just a minor part in this story.

 

[Ray B]

Ah, Relativistic Justification.

It's true I stole the Rolex, but I'm a victim of society.
or

It's true I _____, But I needed ______.

or

I did it, but look at Johnny, he did the same or worse.

 

[Boyd Brooks]

That's a good question. You will probably need to comply with the magazine capacity restrictions. I don't know the list of banned firearms. Part of the issue is that I believe some bolt actions have been caught because they look like the wrong kind of gun.

I downloaded the list from the Canadagazette.gc.ca the document is 69 pages of which the banned firearms list is 52 pages of the document. It was published Friday May 1, 2020.

 

[spike.t]

And Russia is liberating these people is it @Vashper ...you are full of shit.....

 

[mark-hunter]

@Ray B
No it is not relativistic justification.
The world is changing, and in mobile phone department, being tecnical-electronic conservative myself, I was struggling not to accept it.
But then i started getting out of loop. Modern phones are used on work, on meetings, on seminars, and in private communications, shopping and in daily social life.

 

[Spooksar]

What does this look like for Americans wanting to hunt in Canada? Looking at an Ontario moose hunt for Fall 2023.

Planning on bringing either my GBL 45-70 or my Mauser 9.3x62. Former has a 6 round tubular mag, the latter has a 5 round hinged floor plate mag.

You are good I own both of those calibres, they bolt action that are prohibited are things like 460 Weatherby and the 585 Hubel

 

[Red Leg]

Those of you that have cell/smart phones: Does it bother you that various governments and marketers monitor your movements? Where you go, what stores you patronize and what information you view?

@Ray B
No it is not relativistic justification.
The world is changing, and in mobile phone department, being tecnical-electronic conservative myself, I was struggling not to accept it.
But then i started getting out of loop. Modern phones are used on work, on meetings, on seminars, and in private communications, shopping and in daily social life.

Exactly. Unless one doesn't own or use a credit card, doesn't have public utilities, doesn't use a computer at home (leaves out everyone here) then we are already "plugged into" the larger economy and community.

Also, I think it is wrong to think of an iPhone as a phone. For me at least, it is my pocket computer and WIFI access device (and all those useful aps) that also acts as a phone and remarkably capable camera. I am perfectly willing to be another bit of metadata to enjoy that convenience.

 

[Fred Gunner]

In a war, 38 per cent of Americans would pile their SUVs high and join tailbacks for Canada or Mexico

For many of us war voyeurs watching the news with a glass of sherry, admiration of the little-engine-that-could Ukrainian fighters is underwritten by unease. As families escape to safety, plenty of feisty Ukrainians are remaining behind to battle a far more powerful aggressor, and they’re not all men, either. The question nags, then: in the same circumstances, would we stick around to defend our homelands, or would we cut our losses and get out?

Earlier this month, that’s precisely what a Quinnipiac poll asked Americans. Some 7 per cent answered ‘Don’t know’. But an astonishing 52 per cent of Democrats predicted that they’d skedaddle. Among Republicans, a full quarter would carpool with the hightailing ‘to hell with this!’ Democrats, while 68 per cent would stand their ground – or think they would. Among all respondents, 55 per cent would stay and fight, while 38 per cent would flee. Scaled up, that would be 125 million Yanks storming from the Land of the No Longer Free and the Home of the Not Especially Brave all at once. Quite a stampede.

As Matthew Hennessey observed in the Wall Street Journal, these answers are especially surprising because nothing compelled these folks to tell the truth. People often deceive pollsters, especially when an honest reply seems socially unacceptable. That’s why Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 caught pollsters so unawares: many Trump supporters kept their ostensibly odious voting intentions to themselves. Those Quinnipiac respondents confronted only a pencil-pushing pollster, not a Russian tank crashing through their living room. Surely they’d have been tempted to lie to please – or to show a shred of self-respect. Jesus, they might at least have lied to themselves – imagining that, under duress, they’d rise to the occasion, even if this assumption entailed unwarranted optimism about the extent of their physical courage.

Why are so few Americans willing to defend their country?

For many of us war voyeurs watching the news with a glass of sherry, admiration of the little-engine-that-could Ukrainian fighters is underwritten by unease. As families escape to safety, plenty of feisty Ukrainians are remaining behind to battle a far more powerful aggressor, and they’re not...

www.spectator.co.uk

 

[Fred Gunner]

modern person have always a traceable pattern:

Black boxes have been in some of the major American car brands, like Buick, Chevy and Cadillac, since all the way back to 1994. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been using them to collect car accident data since early in the 2000s.

If your car is a model from this century, there’s a fair chance you do indeed, have a black box fitted somewhere within it. Black boxes have been in some of the major American car brands, like Buick, Chevy and Cadillac, since all the way back to 1994. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been using them to collect car accident data since early in the 2000s. If your car is from 2013 or later, you are almost guaranteed to have a black box. Less than 5 percent of new cars came without one in 2013, and they are mandated in all new vehicles since 2014.

It is not designed to be easily accessed, and there is no way to turn it off.

 

[Hogpatrol]

"Smartphones" are computers that can make a phone call. Maybe for an illegal but for law abiding citizens in the U.S. there is no privacy. OT, was returning from RSA at Dulles clearing customs with my rifles. Agent has my passport, scans it, says "Oh, you're a pilot". Say what???? I ask him how he knows that. He replies, "It's on the screen here". You can run, but you can't hide.

 

[Red Leg]

I should add that I have held high level security clearances up until just a few years ago and have held them since 1974. I have never been "unknown" to my government.

 

[CoElkHunter]

"Smartphones" are computers that can make a phone call. Maybe for an illegal but for law abiding citizens in the U.S. there is no privacy. OT, was returning from RSA at Dulles clearing customs with my rifles. Agent has my passport, scans it, says "Oh, you're a pilot". Say what???? I ask him how he knows that. He replies, "It's on the screen here". You can run, but you can't hide.

I've always wondered about that? Almost always, I'm sent to the TSA Pre Check line even though I've never signed up for it or anything else. I've never been told the reason why, but maybe my previous LE career has something to do with it? And, most of my flights have been domestic with no passport, so it's very strange. What else is in their data bases?