Newfoundland Moose Questions

[Ftaview]

OK, I am gonna ask

How much for this type of hunt are we talking ? Ball park figures will be fine.....

With a success rate of 70% it sounds like a better deal than trying my luck in Ontario

 

[Clayduster]

Bare bones drive up camp where you bring your own food, you are looking at a minimum of $2500 each for a party of 4. Add to that all your other usual expenses and the cost of a trip all in is around $4000. That's travelling from Nova Scotia.

You can of course go much nicer and more frills and push the price up quickly.

Steve

 

[Ftaview]

Bare bones drive up camp where you bring your own food, you are looking at a minimum of $2500 each for a party of 4. Add to that all your other usual expenses and the cost of a trip all in is around $4000. That's travelling from Nova Scotia.

You can of course go much nicer and more frills and push the price up quickly.

Steve

Thanks, for the input....

Cheers

Was thinking how come here one goes for a week of moose hunting, between 350.00 to 1000.00 a week, with food, some have a descent cabin, some are tents, only thing is the tag for the bull, there is no high success rate.

Unless your price above is including the flight ? Which I did not factor in, as I can fly out to the rock next to nothing

Somehow, a trip to Europe for wild boar hunting, and spending 3 weeks with the folks is a bit of a better deal at the moment, it was under a hundred Euro's a day(night)

Maybe I save my pennies, and make a trip out East in a year or 2...

 

[duke1]

In 5 years of trying, we have managed to get drawn 4 times for a Matane Wildlife Reserve moose hunt. The density of moose is estimated at over 4 per square kilometer. Success rates are 90% plus. The typical hunt is 4 full days - check in at around 9am, drive to your camp (40+ km's), and start hunting. You have to be out of the camp by 8:30 am the last day, but you can hunt until 10 am. From our place, it's an 8 hour drive, so we leave the night before. By the time we hit the bush, usually around 3pm the next day - we're on impulse speed. Then at 6pm, it's like someone released a herd of moose - they're everywhere. It's surreal. It's a blast. It does not embody the strategy and planning of a typical moose hunt, though. I miss that.


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I know that this is not "hunting moose in Newfoundland" but I thought that for those who can't afford a trip there, Gaspe, Quebec, is a good alternate choice. I have been hunting moose in this Province for years and finally decided that I should expand my hunt area.

I applied in the moose hunt Random Draw for the Matane Wildlife Reserve for the first time and wasn't lucky. I then decided to try to find something else in the general area and came up with someone who has 3 camps in separate areas on the edge of the Reserve on private land including sheltered blinds and summer salt baiting. The camps are set up for four hunters and the cost is between $800 and $900 a hunter for 4.5 days of hunting.

Apparently the success rate is very high and their size is above average. The quota for the area (Zone 1) is 1 moose for 2 hunters but in his case, I had to sign a lease that stipulates 1 moose for 4 hunters. The fine for killing a second moose is $3500 and he insists that his quota is similar to the Reserves and that he does not want to reduce the population.

Looking forward to a very successful hunt and maybe down the road, I'll eventually venture to Newfoundland before I'm too old but I have a few years left as I plan on hunting until I'm at least 90 like my grand father did.



Duke1

 

[looch]

I know that this is not "hunting moose in Newfoundland" but I thought that for those who can't afford a trip there, Gaspe, Quebec, is a good alternate choice. I have been hunting moose in this Province for years and finally decided that I should expand my hunt area.

I applied in the moose hunt Random Draw for the Matane Wildlife Reserve for the first time and wasn't lucky. I then decided to try to find something else in the general area and came up with someone who has 3 camps in separate areas on the edge of the Reserve on private land including sheltered blinds and summer salt baiting. The camps are set up for four hunters and the cost is between $800 and $900 a hunter for 4.5 days of hunting.

Apparently the success rate is very high and their size is above average. The quota for the area (Zone 1) is 1 moose for 2 hunters but in his case, I had to sign a lease that stipulates 1 moose for 4 hunters. The fine for killing a second moose is $3500 and he insists that his quota is similar to the Reserves and that he does not want to reduce the population.

Looking forward to a very successful hunt and maybe down the road, I'll eventually venture to Newfoundland before I'm too old but I have a few years left as I plan on hunting until I'm at least 90 like my grand father did.



Duke1

Hi Duke. We hunted zone 15 for many years - we had a camp between St Michel and Parent, fly-in only. Success rate was 1 moose every other year. It was fun though - 2 or 3 days of tracking / analysis, then strategy, the 7 to 10 days of execution. When we killed, it was typically 2 full days of work for 4 guys to get the animal out of the woods. Being the lightest, I was often selected to fly out first, straddling a moose carcass and most of the canned goods that couldn't stay for the winter. Those tree tops at the end of the lake weren't too far below us when we finally took off.