Buying a borescope starts with the *phone*
An Android buyer asks about Teslong. Current model documents show why the exact camera, phone connection, app and probe deserve a check before ordering.
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With *.22* expected this autumn, Hirsch points buyers to dealers
Hirsch Precision expects an autumn rimfire order, with almost all headed to Canadian dealers. The forecast gives buyers a reason to ask about allocation and matching ammunition lots.
Left-handed, and buying a rifle to *keep*
A BC buyer tried a left-handed Tikka for the first time while weighing a Bergara. Handedness, fit and the exact Canadian configuration deserve their own comparison.
Who can keep a *borrowed handgun* when its owner dies?
I rent a CZ handgun. A reader's question about an owner's death exposes a practical gap between Canada's borrowing rules and its restrictions on handgun inheritance.
Inside July's *amended* buyback recommendation
Public Safety lists an amended buyback recommendation sent for signature in July. Owners can see its title and routing, while the proposed change and decision remain unexplained.
Hornady's palm reader still needs a *fit check*
Hornady has added palm-vein access and a retrofit kit to its safe range. Current hands-on coverage makes the complete opening sequence, lock fit, and Canadian supply worth checking.
Lake Echo *decides* your next cartridge
Berger's new 6mm bullet won in Utah. For Canadian reloaders, Lapua's catalogue and the distributor in Lake Echo say more about which cartridge belongs on the next barrel.
Your scope has never been on a *counter-tariff* list
Finance Canada's August 25 new-measure table has 629 tariff items. None is a firearm, cartridge, propellant powder, primer or riflescope. The upstream steel exposure is another matter.
Public Safety *advanced* $90.3 million to ESDC
Public Safety's newest quarterly report records a $90.3 million advance to ESDC for the Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program. The entry shows the payment infrastructure moving. The report still leaves individual outcome reporting for the next quarter.
Postal code assigns *the collection site*
Public Safety assigns ASFCP collection sites from the postal code in a participant's account. Its current guidance also warns that local appointment windows can be limited. For an Ontario owner, the route belongs in the plan from the first screen.
Lyman Brass Smith Case Trim Xpress *review* after a year on the bench
After more than a year, two failed trimmers, and more than 2,000 cases across nine cartridges, the Lyman Brass Smith Case Trim Xpress has earned a permanent spot on my bench. It only trims. That turns out to be enough.
Same weight, different hole
Hornady's American Whitetail Tipped reached Outdoor Canada's 2026 gear list in twelve cartridges. Hornady's own tables put the tipped .308 load and the old one within four tenths of an inch at 300 yards. The difference that will cost you a deer is not in either table.
Gear
Nothing in section 10 says case
Subsection 10(1) of SOR/98-209 requires one thing to transport a non-restricted rifle: that it be unloaded. No case, no trigger lock, no separate ammunition. The case rule Canadians recite at each other is real, but in Ontario it comes from the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act.
Advocacy
2,473,661 firearms licence holders belong in Canada's gun story
Canada ended 2025 with 2,473,661 firearms licence holders. The number describes a trained, screened culture of hunting and sport that belongs in Canada's own story.
Advocacy
A uniform cannot excuse concealment
Major Kendrick Barling's sentence leaves the Canadian Forces with a separate task: make its own firearms-accountability standard clear, public and consistent.
Advocacy
Buckshot counts as shot.
B.C. put its province-wide lead-shot proposal on hold, but the current file still leaves an eight-pellet buckshot question for the next version to answer.
Handloading
An American label, an Australian origin
Finance Canada's new counter-tariff list works by tariff item and origin. Its current table has no 36.01 propellant-powder entry, while Hodgdon says H4350 is made in Australia.
Precision
Canada takes second in the America Match
Canada trailed the United States by one point after 900 yards at Borden, then took second in the America Match with a nine-point final-range swing.
Advocacy
Fifteen lanes, one guest pass
Ajax is getting a 15-lane range. The guest pass attached to that idea has a legal meaning: a supervised guest may use a restricted firearm at an approved range, even though individual handgun ownership remains largely closed.
Advocacy
An April note, an unopened firearms review
Public Safety's records show planning and technical-group member selection for the firearms review. Owners still have no published route into the promised engagement.
Advocacy
Whitby drew the line at the porch
Whitby shows why Canadian self-defence should protect reasonable force against an immediate threat and punish gunfire after the danger passes. The people who created the confrontation still demand serious accountability.
Gear
Your scope needs its own answer
Public Safety Canada says accessories submitted outside the individual firearm list will be destroyed without compensation. Its collection instructions also require a firearm to be complete and fully assembled. Get the answer about attached gear in writing before an appointment.
Precision
Canada finished third in the Canada Match
Great Britain's current result table puts Canada third in the 2026 Canada Match at Mons. The score shows how quickly a long-range team day can move.
Precision
Cookstown's ten medal rows close the scorecard
SFC's final Cookstown shotgun result records ten medal categories, from trap and skeet to junior, master, and para competition.