by Archie » 17 Apr 2017, 8:36 pm
Effectively the licence is tied to the genuine reason. Specifically, it's an offence to use a firearm, even if you have a licence, outside the terms of the licence. And, one of the terms of the licence, is that you use it for the stated reason. That is why both the ACT and NSW laws have a specific section that allows people with recreational hunting as their reason, to use approved firing ranges for sighting in and practice. Because technically otherwise they would be target shooting, which they aren't authorised for. Madness but that's the way it is.
More difficult is that you also want to cross state boundaries at the same time as using a target licence to go hunting. So I don't know whether using an ACT licence (which is recognised under the regulations by NSW) to do something in NSW that, one, it wouldn't allow you to do in the ACT and two, if it were a NSW licence I'm fairly sure you couldn't do in NSW either, is actually an offence. But my guess is you're at best in a grey area.