8.   This past weekend was very successful for Mark French, Matthew French, Sooley and Maffer.  French had a big game license for area 36-Southern Shore so they loaded up the trucks and headed down the shore to Maffer's cabin in Tors Cove for the weekend.

7.  Saturday came and went with no sign of moose. At this time Sunday hunting is still not allowed in Newfoundland at this time of year, so the guys took advantage of the 'down' day and went animal scouting to prepare for Monday's hunt.

6.   They took a run on ATV up the pole line at the end of track road in Mobil to the 2nd large bog scouting area and making a few animal calls along the way.

5.   They were getting ready to move on to another area when Matthew made one last bawl with the electronic moose caller. The guys spotted movement on the opposite side of the marsh and sure enough a large Cow Moose walked out of the woods, followed by two more!

4.   Mark was certain that if there were so many Cows together it was highly likely that there was a Bull close by. Sure enough about 10-15 minutes later out strutted a beautiful big bull moose which crossed the bog ducking into the next droke of woods!

3.   Early Monday morning the guys loaded up and went back to the pole line. It took awhile making calls with the caller but eventually the same cows came out of the woods, but the bull would not show himself.

2.   Waiting a few minutes, Matthew switched calls and started using a bull challenge call, and sure enough the big bull from the previous day came out of the woods snorting and grunting ready to spar! He came across the bog digging in his large antlers sending bucketfulls of bog skyward, snorting and drooling all over the place. Mark connected a successful shot with his Tika 30-06 rifle and successfully ended the hunt!

1.   As usual, now the real work began. However it wasn't too long before the moose was field dressed, halved, and loaded aboard Mark's Honda Foreman half at a time for the run back to the trucks. Two trips later the moose was out, and the guys trailered the bikes back to the cabin. Congrats to the successful hunters on a very successful harvest and a set of trophy antlers as well.

Cheers, MIKE