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Gear

Rangefinders Have a Marketing Number and a Useful Number

The biggest rangefinder number is often the least useful. Here’s what Canadian shooters should look for instead - and why the deer number tells you far more than the box.

A stock clerk safely lifts an unloaded pump shotgun from a plain shipping carton toward an empty rack slot.

Gear

June's 22,890 shotguns were an autumn bet

A record month of Canadian shotgun imports landed before fall. The number reads like inventory money, with the retail verdict still ahead.

An unloaded bolt-action rifle with its bolt removed and trigger lock attached rests in an open hard case beside an anonymous shipping box.

Gear

"Box it up" skips the Canada Post rules

Canada Post requires the right parcel service, Proof of Age, a locking device, a locked case, anonymous outer packaging, and a route that stays on the ground.

A shooter measures the vertical distance between two groups on a tall target at an outdoor range.

Precision

Your turret, measured across thirty MOA

A closed box confirms return-to-zero. The tall-target test measures the turret scale and gives the owner a correction factor for every ballistic solution.

Gear

At $15,000, ask who will tighten the action

Five-figure clay shotguns make sense through fit, volume, and service. Price the people and parts that keep the action working.

A shooter checks a handheld weather meter at an outdoor range before a session.

Precision

An August zero carries two temperatures

A cold-season zero changes through the powder and the atmosphere. Write both conditions down before November asks the rifle to prove them.

An adult places a large sealed powder jug beside a smaller sealed bottle on an orderly worktable.

Handloading

In an apartment, an eight-pound jug leaves three pounds

Section 302 gives a non-detached dwelling a 20 kg smokeless-powder limit until any one container holds more than 1 kg. Then the total ceiling is 5 kg.

AMP MARK II DB annealer on Steve's reloading bench with brass staged above the touchscreen.

Gear

AMP MARK II DB annealer review

After roughly 3,500 cases and eight months of weekly use, the AMP MARK II DB has made annealing a repeatable part of Steve's reloading workflow.

A P320 owner examines an empty tan grip module beside separated slide and barrel parts.

Gear

The $2,249.99 P320 kit leaves out the registered part

A current Canadian P320 kit includes the slide, barrel, grip module, and an empty trigger guard. The omitted FCU explains what Canada registers.

Two adults pass a detached sound moderator across a plain rural club counter.

Advocacy

Britain dropped the moderator variation and kept the licence

Britain stopped recording each sound moderator as a firearm while keeping possession behind a valid certificate. Canada now has a concrete middle ground to answer.

Handloading

Sixty-four dollars on the ground

Fifty new Hornady .308 cases cost C$63.95 at one Ontario retailer. The same replacement value can be lying on a range floor, after permission and inspection.

A handloader examines a copper-plated spitzer above a plain tray.

Handloading

CamPro put .311 back in the catalogue

CamPro's current 180-grain .311 plated-bullet listing gives Canadian .303 owners a component lead. The public load-data centre leaves the recipe question open.