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I took a little drive to New Foundland last week. Hunted hard Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, hiking around 20-25 miles in those days. Wednesday morning we hiked in around 3 or so miles, it took about 90 minutes to 2 hours between the bogs and elevation changes. We got to our glassing spot, and we see a moose around 1500 yards away across the river between 1000’ - 1500’ elevation. We had this exact same situation in a different area the prior afternoon, the setting sun prevented any shot at going after that bull (a different one). We decide to go after him. We took a helluva route. Down one ridge, across a creek, across the river, across another creek, up a hellacious hill that was nearly straight up, across a couple of bogs, and we finally get to where we saw him last. We can’t see anything, I’m dying after the hike. We let out a couple of cow calls ... nothing. We decide to walk the direction we think he went. We make it maybe 10 yards and we freeze. We saw his paddles sticking out of the grass/trees. He’s laying down and the wind is in our favor. We get to around 40 yards and he starts looking around. Scope goes up, moose rises, I pull the trigger, and he drops there. He didn’t move 5’ from where he was laying. Not an Alaskan monster, but a solid NF moose that a lot of work was put into. Probably the most physically demanding hunt of my life. The walk out was brutal and we didn’t even have to pack out the moose. Thank god for J5 machines and chainsaws. It makes its own roads and goes through some nasty country.
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Later that day, I’m sitting around with nothing to do. The camp cook (outfitters wife) runs in and tells me to grab my gun. A small Bear that’s been hanging around has shown up. I head to the porch and take care of him. Unexpected and better than laying around.
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Now I’m back to laying around unless another bear shows up. Ferry heads out on Friday and I’ll be toting around 400lbs of meat home.
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Here’s a picture of one of the baddest pieces of machinery I’ve been around (not my moose).
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Solid back country hunt. It’s a drive in operation, but it’s about 1.5 hours down a dirt/rock road that rattles your brain. The drive in sucks.
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Originally Posted by Griffin
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