I’ve been around guns all my life, but only picked up an earnest interest in them as a hobby since 2003. I’ve got a YouTube Channel, I’m a host on a podcast, and much more. In that time, the internet landscape for Canadian shooters has grown, and I’d argue that we’ve got a couple of really cool outlets considering our population. So where do you go to get more gun talk (other than this website, of course 😉 **Update Jan, 2026: I’ve removed any media that hasn’t been active in the last year and updated some info.**
Best Canadian Gun Forums
If you’re on Reddit and want to talk guns, head on over to /r/canadaguns and join us! The voted post + comments system is completely superior to the traditional forum style.
If you’re on Discord, there are a couple communities. The Canada Firearms Enthusiasts discord server is the most popular.
CanadianGunNutz is the most obvious one and bears mentioning. The simple look of vBulletin may fool you, but this site hosts thousands of visitors per day and is likely the most popular firearms forum in Canada. Unlike many of the websites in Canada, this one is very well recognized by retailers and manufacturers, many of whom engage to some extent on the forum. While most threads are somewhat civilized and mostly intelligent, other threads are chock full of trolls, completely uninformed, brand lovers, brand haters, and extremely knowledgeable gun owners all thrown into the same mix. There isn’t really a decent way of getting around this problem with a traditional forum, you need comment voting and threading to properly sort the great comments from the . . .not so insightful ones.
The Equipment Exchange on CGN is free and awesome. Seasoned buyers and sellers on the “EE” will pay via EMT quickly and ship quickly. Be forewarned that if you want to sell or buy on the EE, you’ll need to match these high expectations. This is not Kijiji or Craigslist.
Gun Owners of Canada is pretty much a ghost town now.
Alberta Outdoorsmen Forum also does thousands of visitors every day (actually, they usually have thousands of users on the site at any given time.) Also run on vBulletin, the Alberta Outdoorsmen forum is backed by the Alberta Outdoorsmen Magazine. This forum is less categorized as CGN, so it can be harder to find interesting topics if you’re focused on a particular theme. Great if you’re in Alberta, still not so bad if you’re not. I’ve seen a few sellers from other provinces successfully selling their items on this forum.
Best Canadian Podcasts
Most of the podcasts I had listed here from 2021 (the last time I updated this list) are done for. Here’s what’s still sticking around:
- Slam Fire Radio. I’ve been a host on this podcast since 2015
- CCFR Podcast
- The Silvercore Podcast
- Ballistically Speaking is newer compared to these other podcasts but is putting together some really interesting content.
- Rimfire Nation
Canadian Gun Blogs
Canadian YouTube Gun Channels
Note: I haven’t watched all of these channels.
- Arm and Gun 2.5M subs
- Runkle of the Bailey 329,000 sub
- MDT 262,000 subs (Huge bump since last time)
- CCFR Channel 101,00 subs (Huge bump since last time)
- British Muzzleloaders 97,000 subs
- 314299 63,000 subs
- Marstar Canada 46,000 subs
- The Civil Advantage 44,000 subs
- Hunting Gear Guy 44,000 subs (ME)
- Womfat 20,000 subs
- Tactical Imports 19,000 subs
- Silvercore 19,000 subs
- RifleChair 17,000 subs
- GunGeek 12,000 subs
- Bats888 8,000 subs
- Wolverine Supplies 7,000 subs
- Canadian Hunter 5,000 subs
- Yukon12Gauge 5,000 subs
- Ballistically Speaking Podcast 3,730 subs
- Slam Fire Radio 1,400 subs
- Project Mapleseed 550 subs
(subscriber counts updated January, 2026. I also pulled out some inactive channels)
Best Canadian Gun Magazines
The years have not been kind to the magazine industry.
If you know of other great Canadian sources of information online or off that I should include, let me know in the comments below!
