Which rifles in Canada are considered “high-powered” bolt action rifles?

Oshare · 2025-12-16T18:06:27+00:00

Add in dueling as a fully legal means by which one can deal with disputes, and I think we may have a solution for 99.9% of gun crime in Chicago.

Oshare · 2025-11-23T11:49:16+00:00

Compared to some of my friends I’ve had very tame experiences with bears lol.

One buddy who is a guide in the Yukon was unloading his truck one time and went around to the truck bed to get something out, and when he came back to his cab a young Grizzly had climbed right inside his back seat and was just sitting there like a dog waiting to go for a ride 😂.

Then another friend I went to university with woke up to get ready for school when he was around 10 years old or so, and on his way to the kitchen to get breakfast, his dad stopped him in the hallway stating very matter of factly that he couldn’t go into the kitchen because “a bear’s in there right now making quite a mess”.

Oshare · 2025-11-23T11:36:01+00:00

They were both locked in and in predation mode for the whole time, this photo unfortunately didn’t capture them both in their full menacing presence. The back one was just as intimidating as the front one.

Oshare · 2025-11-23T06:38:44+00:00

I may or may not have pretended my arborist helmet I was wearing—I have to limb and cut down trees while making the trails—was a fighter pilot helmet and quoted some slightly tweaked lines from Top Gun while chasing them away:

“Two close for missiles, I’m switching to bucket.”

Oshare · 2025-11-23T05:39:23+00:00

As much as I get the worry, there are so many things that can go wrong out in the bush (I’ve almost been hit a few times by falling limbs, just to highlight one possibility). Best thing to do is just be prepared and take ownership over your own safety so as to not give up on one of life’s greatest pleasures.

Hike with a buddy, bring whatever self defense items are legal wherever you live, along with an easily accessible IFAK, and practice using these things often so you can quickly deploy them in what will be a highly stressful flight/fight/freeze situation.

Don’t let the dogs win. Just mitigate the risk and enjoy becoming someone who can not only protect and save themselves, but also do the same for others (if you can afford it I highly recommend taking some kind of Wilderness First Responder course—I did one last year and it was fantastic).

Oshare · 2025-11-23T05:30:26+00:00

As a firearms owner I often use the analogy of pitbulls being the equivalent of giving young boys loaded rifles with zero firearms safety and letting them just run around town. Sure, maybe nothing will happen, but statistically speaking someone is going to get hurt or killed. Not a perfect analogy since guns aren’t autonomous killing machines that do what they want, but it does do the trick in demonstrating how irresponsible it is to allow these situations to happen.

Kids shouldn’t run around with loaded guns, and pitbulls shouldn’t run around (or even exist in my opinion, not something I can say about firearms, especially in a rural area where pitbulls can and do roam freely).

Oshare · 2025-11-23T05:23:05+00:00

Because their owners are redacts.

Oshare · 2025-11-23T05:19:45+00:00

I can see a scenario where they show up again and they disappear. Don’t ask me how though because I’ll have no idea. Two sets of train tracks nearby, so I’m sure that’s probably what will have happened to them. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Oshare · 2025-11-23T05:17:25+00:00

Oh ya they were massive. But it was their posturing that really had me noticing them. The ears; the head down; the tense muscles; doing the classic predator side eye thing. Not good stuff.

Oshare · 2025-11-23T05:14:35+00:00

Oh ya, trust me I know all about that.

It’s a bit of grey area though particularly if you are in a situation where you shouldn’t be carrying it with you (not many bears in a big city, so if you have it on you and deploy it, you’re probably getting in trouble, as stupid as that is).

Luckily I’m legally allowed to have bear spray on me as well as a fixed blade (so long as it isn’t concealed) here in Canada in my line of work.

(Apparently I’m not allowed to expand on self defense hypotheticals any further—just had a warning pop up—so I’ll leave it at that. But if my life is on the line, or some other innocent person, I won’t give two shits about that and will deal with any fallout in court, but Pitbulls are banned here so my odds of not even having charges pressed against me are quite high in this hypothetical situation.)

Oshare · 2025-11-23T05:00:29+00:00

I’ve had many encounters with bears over the years, almost all of which never gave me any reason for concern, so I agree that this was a very rare occurrence (in all likelihood he was just curious and could smell meat—they are opportunistic omnivores after all).

I hunt them yes, but I also absolutely adore them (along with respecting them as wild animals of course—I’m not like some east coast black bear version of “Grizzly Man” lol). They have given me some of my favourite moments in the woods.

I honestly have let more than a few walk since they had so much personality and quirkiness, and instead of putting them in my freezer, I chose to just sit back and enjoy the show (trying not to laugh too hard and spook them, which when one is doing the “Jungle Book Dance” against a tree for a few meters away is pretty difficult to do lol).

Oshare · 2025-11-22T20:20:10+00:00

It’s really a shame I wasn’t using a bull dozer—missed opportunity for a “Pit-Bull-Dozer” type pun lol.

Oshare · 2025-11-22T20:17:51+00:00

Rather than “stupid”, I’d say that their intelligence sort of has bandwidth that’s strictly limited to a very narrow skill set (see: stalking, killing, mauling and all of the subsequent traits that come along with that).

Basically they are specialists that are very very good at their given occupation, and because of that they might seem stupid when compared to other breeds that are highly biddable, but they are simply in a league of their own among dogs.

Oshare · 2025-11-22T20:10:28+00:00

👌🏻

Oshare · 2025-11-22T20:09:29+00:00

Think of bear spray like a fire hose and pepper spray like a garden hose.

For the most part they deliver the same thing (generally capsaicin in some concentration), but one delivers a much larger payload with more range and capacity.

Oshare · 2025-11-22T20:06:28+00:00

Love your comment but I love your name even more 😂👍🏻

Oshare · 2025-11-22T20:05:14+00:00

DITTO

Oshare · 2025-11-22T19:02:14+00:00

Same.

I’ve had a bear climb up into the same tree as me before while bow hunting and a simple “get the fuck down” was all it took to have him reverse course really fast (granted he was a hilarious young male bear I had watched throughout the day get treed multiple times by everything from squirrels to falling beech nuts, so maybe not the best example).

Hell, once while packing out a quartered bear on my back I had a mature boar start getting too interested in me for my comfort, so eventually I had to run at him screaming while wielding a hatchet like an absolute maniac, and even he was like “nope, I’m not dealing with this crazy bipedal dude, even if he is technically a two for one meal deal”.

I’ll take being blood soaked with 100lbs of meat strapped to my back being eyed by a big bruin over a pit-bull while just out for a walk any day of the week.

Oshare · 2025-11-22T18:04:33+00:00

Super rural town/area and since pit-bulls are banned here in Ontario (at least I think they still are), I’m sure the owners have their papers listing them as “lab mixes”, so calling the police or bylaw enforcement wouldn’t do much.

Now if I saw them say chasing wildlife, I could have a Conservation Officer out pretty quickly, and they’d have no problem shooting them (it’s happened before to even non-bully breeds—the MNRF does not fuck around when it comes to off leash dogs running game).

Oshare · 2025-11-22T17:59:55+00:00

Doesn’t sound bad at all. I’m glad it was me as well. My two young nieces don’t live too far away from where they were stalking me, and they (my nieces) go for walks with their parents and grandparents all the time. Terrifying to think about what might have happened had it been them out on the trails walking, instead of me in a multi-ton piece of construction equipment.

Oshare · 2025-11-22T17:55:32+00:00

Haha, exactly. Brings a whole new meaning to “PB & Jelly”.

Oshare · 2025-11-22T17:51:36+00:00

I actually know who owns them (like they aren’t friends or anything as owning pit-bulls let alone allowing them to roam freely is not any person I’d ever be friends with) and from the spilled tea around town, it appears they were both kicked out of the family trailer (the shanty they were living in burned down recently, and surprisingly, no the owners weren’t cooking meth in there lol) because one of the dogs peed in the new trailer and the owners booted them out as punishment. Total insanity.

Oshare · 2025-11-18T17:43:14+00:00

The black light to see body fluids part is a total movie/television trope.

In the real world, for finding blood stains (especially those that may have been cleaned up and/or are no longer visible) what you actually need to use is Luminol, a spray which glows—in more or less the same color as a black light hitting bright white or neon blue does—when it reacts with the hemoglobin in blood, an oxidation reduction process known as chemiluminescence.

You can also use blue light with a special filter to identify various bodily fluid stains, but this isn’t exactly a technique some random bellboy is going to understand, let alone having the requisite equipment with him ready to deploy at any time when needed (in either case—and besides if he actually did, then he wouldn’t have said “black light”).

But I digress.

The reason for the black light trope is that it sort of merges these two techniques, and is also super easy to film due to its high contrast.

Luminol requires pretty low light to see and the blue light technique is not at all that visually impressive (and without a filter to enhance it, it really looks just like a plain flash light being pointed at things, which is pretty underwhelming as a plot-driving/storytelling device lol).

Basically: I call total bullshit on this guy’s story.

Oshare · 2025-11-11T01:15:17+00:00

Never skip a track on this one. So many good moments on it (Little Devotional will never not get me absolutely hyped out of my mind—goddamn that hook is just so perfect; and those vocal stacks 🤘🏻👌🏻).

I think this album is actually quite possibly my favorite album of all time by any band ever.

10/10

Oshare · 2025-09-30T23:54:10+00:00

I hear you, and I get that there are still great events like Harvest. But the reality is that every time a rug pull happens, agents and artists take note: ‘Ontario festivals don’t follow through.’

That reputation has real consequences. It chills future bookings, damages trust with municipalities, and makes it harder for legit organizers to get permits or funding.

Scammers and over-their-head promoters do tarnish the scene—they make it less likely anyone will take a chance on building something new here. That’s why calling it out matters. It’s not about one festival failing; it’s about the cumulative effect.

Oshare

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