Welcome to Realtree Global Hunting. This week, I'm back in Newfoundland, Canada on the hunt
for trophy Canadian moose. Newfoundland offers challenging hunting conditions, across some
of the most difficult terrain I've encountered. Moose hunting here is certainly not for the
faint hearted. My last outing here with Ironbound Outfitters saw us harvest a young bull moose
for meat with a pretty epic display of shooting.
My guide and good friend Donnie Benoite led me up hill and down dale before we finally
found our moose. It was an incredibly challenging and rewarding hunt. Then Donny showed us how
to pack out the meat from such a huge animal and we discovered how it gets processed and
put back into the food chain.
This time we're on the hunt for not one, but two trophy bulls and again it's Donnie leading
the way. He knows this ground like the back of his hand, and after several days of walking,
stalking, and glassing he's sure he's got a good idea of where the bulls should be.
After several hours of clambering through thick spruce forests and across dangerously
deep marshes we reach a remote spot, where we spotted a group of moose on a mountain
top vantage point the previous day. Ahead of us, we can see the giant frame of a moose
cow feeding away quietly. As well as two other pairs of antlers in the thick spruce surrounding
her. I load the Blaser R8 Professional and maneuver slowly and quietly into position.
Donnie begins to call and all three moose look up. He's got their attention. I just
need to wait until they stand. I get my sites on the bull to the right of the screen, and
as he stands, I fire.
The three of them stand and look puzzled. They're not sure of where the shot came from.
However, I'm confident that I've made a good shot on my bull even though he's not reacted
yet.
Then, his legs begin to wobble.
I take another insurance shot, just to be sure.
And again there is no reaction. These giant Canadian moose are such big and tough animals
that they don't tend to flinch, kick their legs or buck like other deer. But then, his
legs begin to wobble and he hits the deck.
I quickly readjust to get my sights on the other bull.
I fire, but no reaction from the bull and I fire again.
This time, he also hits the deck.
Two other moose rise out of the thick stuff and they all stand puzzled but they don't
run. But then slowly they begin to move on.
So that's both of them down. The bigger one took two shots and that second one, I'm pretty
sure the first shot was good just quartering away, heading up the hill, had to take it,
as it turned, gave me a perfect broadside shot and then went straight down, so absolutely
incredible. The other ones now they're just slowly making their way up the hill.
There's another bull just got up to the right, a younger one. Unbelievable, you won't believe how many
were all here at the same time. So we'll just give them a chance to clear over the hill
at the top there. They're looking back, they're not sure what to do. Obviously the bigger one
is obviously the dominant bull here. I'll just de-cock the gun. Both bulls are down.
It is unusual this time of year to see two reasonably big bulls together, that one is
an absolute monster the first one that went down. They're pretty tough, as I said I'm
pretty happy with the first shot.
But he did go down.
With the second he seemed to limp away.
That's 220 yards so that's a reasonable distance for these Hornady Interlock, I've got a Zeiss
Varipoint 2.5-10x50 it's up on full mag, gives me a good sight picture, I could move cleanly
from one bull to the other.
Right now, let's go and have a look.
This thing, is a monster.
What have you done now, buddy?
Look at the size of this bad boy! Looks like somebody's already had a shot at him, Donnie.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty. What a magnificent animal. Wow, that
has to be one of the biggest moose I've ever seen, and worth all the time and effort. Now,
we spotted this bad boy, with his antlers flashing, his pans flashing in the sunshine
about three days ago now?
About three days, yeah.
But he's in a very remote part of the countryside here, right across the lake from where we
were. We were sat right up on that hill as an observation point. So we spotted him, he's
bedded down here with a group of six other moose, one other bull that we took at the
same time, but this is the one we really wanted. I did have two tags and boy, breathtaking.
I don't know what to say really. This is probably one of the only times in my entire career
that I've been speechless but that is a magnificent animal. It was lying down here, snoozing away,
nice warm day. It was raining a bit but it's still nice and warm and then Donnie made a
couple of moose calls and then the both bulls stood up. This one first, and then the other
one, facing straight at us.
I guess he just wanted to get up and see what was happening, next move somethings going
to happen really.
But he did turn and he was going to start to walk away before I took the shots. He turned
broadside heading back up, why don't they really respond to calls at this time of year?
He might have been going to go after the other bull, we don't know right. That's the first
thing he's gonna do is defend it.
So there we have it. So let's go and have a look and see our other bull. This is just
one of the bulls that we harvested so, it's over here.
Now this is another massive animal. Look at the daggers on these boy. How old would you
say this one is, Donnie? He's an eleven pointer. Huge in the body, as you can see it looks
like we've got a bit of stomach damage there, but another. Nice, wide spread on him and
a big, big bodied animal. So, how old would you say this one is?
Well, it's hard to say. I'd say three and half years old.
Nice wide spread, good points, nice pans.
See the points on this one is not as quite as big as on the other one. So that one's
definitely got a year or two on that one.
But still a magnificent animal and trophy I'm sure anyone would like.
I wouldn't pass this up.
For sure.
What a breathtaking animal and that's two. The first time I've had two moose stags at
the same time and it's fortunate that we had an opportunity to take both bulls at the same
time. So, we've got an awful lot of work here to do now, cape both of these out and get
them boned out ready for packing out. And I think rather than carrying them out, we're
probably going to get a canoe tomorrow to come pick up the meat.
Anything's better than carrying them.
So we've got a lot of work to do, Donnie.
That's awesome, well done mate. World's greatest moose guide right here.
Thank you.
Alright, let's get to work.
Another amazing moose hunt with the guys here at Ironbound Outfitters. And another job well
done by the legend Donnie Benoite.
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