CanadianMade
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As a hunter, and owner and familiar with firearms my entire life. Firing 3 shots to signal distress, a come to me now, or otherwise draw attention to yourself and your presence/location is common knowledge. I'm born and raised in Ontario, on a reservation. I was taught the 3 shot signal even as a kid. I don't find any problem or out of the ordinary that 3 shots were used to communicate location or draw attention etc. It's not unprofessional or "a lack of training" at all. It's just how you do it when you don't have radio contact. Your voice doesn't carry very far in the bush. In a situation like the one where it happened. Minutes matter when you're smack dab in the middle of a national manhunt and you're hot on the tail of the subjects of the manhunt.
Maybe for a regular person out with a gun.
An RCMP officer would not be doing this.