Awesome!

That’s awesome, congratulations

Here's the rundown of the trip, I'll give it a try, but i hope it doesn't run together too much:

3 of us met in Huntsville and drove to Nashville to meet our 4th member on Friday 9/10. We flew from Nashville to Newark on Friday nite getting there at 11:30. We slept on benches in closed restaurants in the airport for 5 hrs and jumped on our next leg to Montreal. Off the plane in Montreal, thru customs, and we had a 4 hr layover to the flight to Deer Lake, NL. We grabbed an overpriced and underwhelming breakfast at the airport diner, and then headed off to Deer Lake on our last flight.

We met our outfitter at the airport in Deer Lake saturday afternoon, and headed on to the hotel and then to grab a bite to eat. Saturday mid morning we loaded into the float plane outside of town and took a 50 min flight out into the NL woods and landing on a decent size chain of lakes. a quick taxi on the water over to the wharf where we met our guides and found our home for the next 6 days. We spent the next 2 and 1/2 hours getting our gear back out, checking rifles, and shooting the breeze with the guides. Later in the day our cook and the food for the cabin were flown in. She got right to work that evening and fixed a delicious dinner. For the next 6 days we ate like kings, and always had hot coffee and snacks to go. That evening we all glassed from behind the cabin and spotted a nice bull and cow working their way into some timber, along with several moose on the hillside across the lake. Our hunts were 2 on 1, so the group decided that myself, my hunting partner, and guide would strike off on foot behind the cabin to hunt that area, and the other 2 and guide would take off down the lake to the other end and begin there in a nice bog where they'd seen moose scouting.

Monday morning we woke up to the generator running and in short order a breakfast of toast, eggs, and fried bologna, fresh coffee, and some sort of concentrated orange drink they called orange juice. We ate quickly and put our gear on and hit the trail out back, while the others launched the boat. 15 mins into the walk and we come to the creek bottom and timber separating the bog behind the cabin, and the next one over. We spent a few minutes working our way around the creek's edge and the lakes edge and got back on a caribou trail going up the other side when "Umph" ooumph" ''burm" we heard what the guide said was a nice bull below us and upstream in the woods. We couldn't see him, but it sounded CLOSE. We dropped to the ground and setup watching the little area below us looking for a sign of a moose. 5 minutes go by and nothing so we slowly get up and take about 10 steps over the hill when the guide hit the ground, we immediately saw why, a nice BOO and Cow skirting across the edge of the bog. We dropped down, loaded the rifles, and stood up taking aim. I was up first and fired a shot as the bull crossed L to R at 75 yards. He folded up and went down! I was calm during the shot, but had the shakes as bad as i have ever had before. High Fives and Hugs all around. It was 7:30 am on my phone when we took photos i think. it happened that fast!

We spent till lunch getting it quartered out and down to the lake for a short boat ride back over to the wharf. After showers and lunch we hiked back up the hill behind the cabin to glass for any more moose since mine was with a cow, we'd heard another bull, and there were 2 "Pits" as they call them. Pits are scrapes the size of a full size mattress and stink like bad Buck Urine.

No Luck behind the cabin, so we got in the boat at 4:00 and decided to quietly ease down the lake and see if we could spot a bull to locate in the morning. around 4:30 we saw a decent bull on the hill feeding by himself. With a good wind, and good cover, we dumped the boat on a creek mouth and eased into the timber/hillside downwind and below the bull. We slowly worked up about 400' and over about 600 yards where we felt like we were close to the bull's area he was heading. the guide gave a soft cow call and about 2 min later we heard a branch snap, and then another, and with that a set of paddles was coming up and out of the spruce! This bull was trotting directly at us on a winding caribou trail. At 70 yards the moose turned on the trail and bam! my buddy shot 1, 2, 3 times dropping the bull! We spent the next hr gutting and getting the head out, returning the next morning to get the quarters.

Ecstatic we all headed back to camp to clean up and eat! We arrived before dark and took showers, upon cleaning up our other party was back and they'd shot a moose that evening as well! 3 moose out of 4 down the first day! Tuesday am was spent retrieving the remaining meat and getting it ready for the butcher.

Wednesday i hunted hard with our last remaining hunter and their guide, while the other 2 guys rode and glassed with our guide scouting for the coming weeks. We saw 13 moose Wednesday, and had 3 opportunities, harvesting a smaller bull that evening, as we were concerned about the weather the next 3 days.

Thursday am we retrieved the last moose quarters out of the woods, in the POURING down rain, and then spent the better part of that day watching it rain and warming up. A plane flew in Thursday at lunch and got all of the moose meat and heads out and back to town.

Friday we all looked for a black bear to harvest, and really just took in the scenery too as it turned out to be a beautiful day. We saw a good number of moose and caribou, along with a couple of bears off in the distance.

Saturday was a rain out in our eyes, as we had moose, and no one wanted to fight the wind/fog/rain.

Sunday had us back in Deer Lake NL, prepping to come home.

Monday we flew back to Nashville, arriving at 11:30 PM... I walked in my door in birmingham, al at 3:30 am Tuesday morning, just in time to wake my wife up to go to work!

This trip was a blast, and is one of the few i plan to do again one day!

Nice write up. Happy you had a great trip. Have you eaten any of the meat yet? (At camp, brought home etc?)

It’s delicious from what I had in camp. I can’t wait to try the steaks and burger. In camp we had a roast, a soup w meat chopped in it, and some moose meat in gravy on a rolled biscuit. All was delicious.

How are you transporting the bulk of the meat home? Were you able to find a cost effective solution ?

All 4 moose were being processed and frozen and will be shipped to a cold storage facility in cartersvile ga, where we will go pick up. The euro mounts were about $400 plus 1/4 of whatever a crate shipped to Huntsville ends up.

Sounds like an awesome trip.

Newark SUCKS. Hate that you had to go through there.