r/canadaguns • u/bpond7 • Apr 22 '26

Application / Regulation advice Lost PAL replacement

Lost my PAL (well, I lost my wallet with my PAL in it). Reported it to local RCMP detachment and spoke to Alberta CFO about replacing. Sending RCMP Form 5515 to Miramichi, does anyone have any insight into turnaround times? I would assume it falls into a different lineup than applications and should be replaced fairly quickly?

Here’s hoping, it’s gopher season….

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u/Condition_Wise Apr 29 '26

Theres a gopher season?

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u/bpond7 Apr 29 '26

I mean it’s not an officially legislated/timed “season”. But in Alberta you can hunt gophers without a licence as long as you have the landowners permission (a lot of folks do it to help out their rancher friends etc to try and control the population). As it warms up, they start to come out from their winter hibernation. So the “season” window varies by year depending on the weather. But once they come out, they’re only usually out for about 3 months, maybe 4, before they start prepping for winter again. So that 3 month window is busy. They start coming out, reproduce (30 day gestation) and then the babies come out when they get old enough. Blast as many as you can in 3 months and hope it makes a small dent for next year (each colony can have over a million gophers) they totally destroy crops and pose a danger to livestock