Guns in public

Longranger

Hey all,i'm now without car for a few weeks(feckin mechanic) so i'm wondering. I have some land to shoot on about 20 mins walk from the house. About 500 yards of that is on a main road. Can i walk that carrying a shotgun on my back,in a case legally,or am I going to get in the s*%t? Help please..

It wasn't me!

Nothing illegal about it. I'd have it in a slip, rather than slung over my shoulder, personally, but your licence does entitle you to carry it in the course of your legal activities, which includes transporting it. Discretion is always a good thing, of course, but you don't need to be told that either.

kildare.17hmr

i often walk with the rifle on my back from my house, now its not far but iv passed the guards and they have just waved, you can carry it in public over your back i think once its not in a threatning way towards any1. if you have to walk you have to walk

Cass

kildare.17hmr wrote: »

............. you can carry it in public over your back i think once its not in a threatning way towards any1.............

Spot on.

As long as its not in a threatening manner. In other words don't carry it as though you are ready to fire it. Common sense. You know yourself.:cool:

Longranger

It wasn't me! wrote: »

Nothing illegal about it. I'd have it in a slip, rather than slung over my shoulder, personally, but your licence does entitle you to carry it in the course of your legal activities, which includes transporting it. Discretion is always a good thing, of course, but you don't need to be told that either.

sorry,i should have said it clearer,of course i will carry it in a slip...

pugw

I was always told to have the shotgun breached and not to have it cocked if a rifle, but if road was very busy i'd leave it in a slip!

Spunk84

same with the shotgun, some places i shoot i am good 100+ yards from the field so i have to walk down the road. Its always broken either over my shoulder or on my arm, had kids,women and others pass by without any concern. I think a slip or even a black bag over it would cause less attention.

deerhunter1

Longranger wrote: »

Hey all,i'm now without car for a few weeks(feckin mechanic) so i'm wondering. I have some land to shoot on about 20 mins walk from the house. About 500 yards of that is on a main road. Can i walk that carrying a shotgun on my back,in a case legally,or am I going to get in the s*%t? Help please..

in public in a slip or open (shotgun) rifle bolt/magazine/removed (if possible)

garv123

we spotted deer on the way home from a stalk one morning. parked at the one of the fellas houses and walked down the main road for about 500 yards to a field to and flank up beside them so they wouldn't catch wind of us.
got some funny looks of passers by when they saw 3 fellas walking down a main road in full camo gear with 2 .243's thrown over 2 of their shoulders. of course as soon as we stepped onto the road traffic suddenly became hectic.
we decided it was best to leave the deer down by the road and go back for the van rather than walking back up the road with two guns and a dead deer over our shoulders:cool:

Tackleberrywho

Longranger wrote: »

Hey all,i'm now without car for a few weeks(feckin mechanic) so i'm wondering. I have some land to shoot on about 20 mins walk from the house. About 500 yards of that is on a main road. Can i walk that carrying a shotgun on my back,in a case legally,or am I going to get in the s*%t? Help please..

I regularly walk roads on the way home from game shooting with the shotgun across my arms.

If you have a double barrel broken across your arm it is non offensive.

(when I was a young fella I used to carry a shotgun across my back on a motorbike :eek)
How times have changed.

session savage

I walk the roads with my rifle slung over my shoulder, mag removed and bolt open. Even though most people who don't shoot wouldn't even know what a bolt even is.

4gun

had to do a mile on a busy road last year with my deer rifle at night, thank God for hard sholders

Arcto

I often walk +/- 300 yards down by where I shoot on a road (parking is a bit away from the entrance I usually use) with the shotgun cracked. As far as I am aware this is perfectly legal.

Sparks

Perfectly legal because that's carriage of a firearm rather than carrying (in the US sense of the word) a firearm.