Purchasing shotgun in Ontario

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I am moving from the GTA to Northern Ontario (Thunder Bay area) in about a month's time.

I would like to buy a shotgun for hunting and home defence.

As far as I can tell, I will need a non-restricted licence and also a PAL. Is that correct?

What is involved with getting these two licences? Do I need to take a course for both? How long does it take to go through this registration process?

Also, any recommendations for good shotguns for my purpose in the $500 range?

Thank you.
 
You only need your PAL for the gun. You will also need your outdoor's card and hunter education course.

Home defence is verboten. Once you take yur PAL course, you'll understand how counter-productive it is with the storage requirements.
 
non-restricted license and PAL are the same thing.

A restricted PAL is known as an RPAL.

For hunting purposes, you will need a hunting license.

The hunting license and PAL can be taken seperately, or as a package deal. Usually two weekends; one for the PAL, the second for the hunting license. Both courses have a practical and written test.

Now, if you dont actually want to hunt, I guess you could still use a gun for home defense against animals, but it becomes a lot less complicated if you can just tag and eat what you shoot (bear etc) assuming its in season. But since you cant hunt the majority of the time, you better have a darn good reason for shooting something without a license and out of season. The excuse

"Well, its a bear, and it looked at me from the treeline" wont get you anything but a fine and a charge.

Good shotgun for less then $500? Remington 870. 'nuff said
 
firemachine69 said:
You only need your PAL for the gun. You will also need your outdoor's card and hunter education course.

Home defence is verboten. Once you take yur PAL course, you'll understand how counter-productive it is with the storage requirements.
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Where is buying a shotgun for home defence "verboten?" You can buy a non-restricted for any reason, including defence of life and property. Millions of Canadians own non-restricted firearms for this purpose.

It is not that counter-productive. All you do is open the cabinet, load shells, and your gun is now ready to blow holes through criminals. If you don't give a s**t about violating government storage regulations, well, all the better.
 
blasted_saber said:
A restricted PAL is known as an RPAL.
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No such thing as an RPAL.

A PAL is a PAL.

A PAL can have a restricted endorsement on it along with the 12.x endorsements.

No one refers to these as a 12.6PAL

RPAL is a term that seems to have been born on this website out of pure slang talk and ignorance of the system.
 
Wildbore said:
Where is buying a shotgun for home defence "verboten?" You can buy a non-restricted for any reason, including defence of life and property. Millions of Canadians own non-restricted firearms for this purpose.

It is not that counter-productive. All you do is open the cabinet, load shells, and your gun is now ready to blow holes through criminals. If you don't give a s**t about violating government storage regulations, well, all the better.
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He means verboten as in "the same thing applies"
 
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