Moose from NB hunt 2018

Ganderite said:
Wow. I have hunted moose a number of times in NB and never got a moose that big. I think the biggest bull was about 600 pounds.

Had no idea they got to be so big.

That would be a decent size moose in BC.

The last moose I got in NB was shot at 5 yards as it trotted towards me at first light.
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Down in the south of the province, those are more rare for sure.

Where pastway and I were this fall (he was about 20 minutes away from my camp), those moose are more common.

But it helps that we were both with people who'd hunted there in previous years and knew the area and not just the general idea of where to look, but which specific hills held big bulls.

In the summer, Jason (the Quebec guide) said, after he heard I had my licence up there, to not shoot anything under a 40-inch moose, as there was no shortage of them.

When he came to my camp on the Thursday of the season, he said right out straight that if I went with him, we'd get something like that for sure.

So many guys get all hopped up on guns and gear, when 90% of hunting success, maybe more, is acquiring knowledge of your prey and its habits and habitat, and then using that knowledge to be in the right place at the right time.

Edited to say that we shot three big bulls out of pastway's camp and mine, but I saw an even bigger one with a 60"+ spread that was shot just up the road from where my camp was.
 
Ganderite said:
Wow. I have hunted moose a number of times in NB and never got a moose that big. I think the biggest bull was about 600 pounds.

Had no idea they got to be so big.

That would be a decent size moose in BC.

The last moose I got in NB was shot at 5 yards as it trotted towards me at first light.
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At the registration station we took them to, they would have had several hundred moose come through. I asked and if I remember correctly, at the time I asked on the third day of the 5-day season, the biggest one weighed just a bit over 1000 lbs field dressed. So that is getting to the top end of the size they get to in NB. Not everyone was paying the $10 to get them weighed, but I suspect those with the bigger moose were. We were in the north of the province nearer the Quebec border. Maybe they are bigger up there?
 
There are a few big ones around here.

https://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/hunting/2013/10/monster-bull-moose-taken-new-brunswick

New Brunswick native Keith Comeau only had one moose season under his belt when he drew a tag this year. But that didn't stop him from taking a 1500-pound monster bull with a 66-inch spread. On September 26, Comeau and his brother-in-law shot this moose in St. Quentin, New Brunswick. Now Comeau has a new wall mount and a likely Boone and Crockett Club record for the third largest Canada moose ever taken in the province.​
 
NB444 said:
There are a few big ones around here.

https://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/hunting/2013/10/monster-bull-moose-taken-new-brunswick

New Brunswick native Keith Comeau only had one moose season under his belt when he drew a tag this year. But that didn't stop him from taking a 1500-pound monster bull with a 66-inch spread. On September 26, Comeau and his brother-in-law shot this moose in St. Quentin, New Brunswick. Now Comeau has a new wall mount and a likely Boone and Crockett Club record for the third largest Canada moose ever taken in the province.​
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Since the 1500 lbs in that article is a round figure, I suspect that is an estimated live weight, not actually weighed, since weighing a moose before field dressing is pretty difficult. From what I have researched, which is supposedly based on NB road kills, a field dressed moose that weighs 950 to 1000 lbs would likely go about 1500 lbs live weight, more or less. As with the 2 bulls my sons tagged, the one with the significantly bigger antlers actually weighed less, so antler size is not always a final indicator of weight.
I don't think you'd find many moose over 1500 to 1600 lbs live weight in NB, maybe some in the Yukon or Alaska. I grew up on a farm where we raised 100 or so beef cattle every year. When a steer weighs a ton live weight, which we used to get Holstein steers to that weight often, they look pretty big, bigger than any moose I've seen.
 
Nice work. I’m jealous. My group in Ontario didn’t get any tags this year so no moose hunt. They keep cutting tag numbers and changing the group sizes every year. It makes it hard to plan a hunt. We’re looking to lock down an outfitter’s tag for next year so we don’t have to worry about it anymore. Great looking animal.
 
pastway said:
Since the 1500 lbs in that article is a round figure, I suspect that is an estimated live weight, not actually weighed, since weighing a moose before field dressing is pretty difficult. From what I have researched, which is supposedly based on NB road kills, a field dressed moose that weighs 950 to 1000 lbs would likely go about 1500 lbs live weight, more or less. As with the 2 bulls my sons tagged, the one with the significantly bigger antlers actually weighed less, so antler size is not always a final indicator of weight.
I don't think you'd find many moose over 1500 to 1600 lbs live weight in NB, maybe some in the Yukon or Alaska. I grew up on a farm where we raised 100 or so beef cattle every year. When a steer weighs a ton live weight, which we used to get Holstein steers to that weight often, they look pretty big, bigger than any moose I've seen.
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I would have to agree with that assessment. I have never hunted moose in the north part of the province, only south and central and the biggest one I have been involved with was probably 1000 to 1100 live weight.
 
pastway said:
I thought of this post a couple days ago as I read that moose were introduced to Newfoundland from New Brunswick in 1904.

https://www.flr.gov.nl.ca/wildlife/snp/programs/education/animal_facts/mammals/moose.html

So I guess if that is true the moose there have the same genetic makeup as we have here in NB.
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There were actually three introductions, one from NB, the other two from the state of Maine in return for Caribou, the last one if I recall was only about 25-30 years ago. All strengthened the gene pool from what I gather from the biologists.
 
Finally got around to mounting one of the moose antlers. The idea is mine, sort of an artistic interpretation of the woods where it was shot.
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VanIsleCam said:
Waiting patiently eating Blacktail....
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My son says it scored 175.

I think there is a previous post in this thread that gives the width in inches, but that measurement was not done by me, and apparently was done wrong. The animal weights are correct.
 
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