23.   My Moose hunting experience up until this year has been one of procrastination. I spent most of my teenage years moose hunting with my Dad and Uncles and successfully completed my Firearms Acquisition Course and Hunter Safety Training way back in 1995. Unfortunately my moose license returns fell through the cracks and I never filled out for my  full FAC until 2008. But I got everything straightened out, this year I applied and was successful in getting an either sex moose license for area 36, The Southern Shore.

22.   Thanksgiving weekend was the first weekend we got up in the woods to look for a moose as the weather was finally cool and there was no rain in the forecast.

21.   Saturday morning Mark French and I headed down the Southern Shore Highway to Gully Pond Road with our Honda Foreman ATV's in tow. We unloaded the bikes before daylight, rode to the end of the gravel road and set up in the same blind where Sooley and Maffer were successful back in 2007.

20.   For this hunt I Borrowed Mark's Tika 30.06 rifle as I still haven't picked out my own as of yet. We hunted this area unsuccessfully for the morning and headed back to the truck. Loaded up we headed down the southern shore as far as Ferryland for a mid day drive.

19.   That evening we unloaded on Track Road and headed up the pole line for a hunt in the area Mark shot his moose in 2008 but were unsuccessful.

In the days that followed we made a number of trips to both of these areas. One morning while we hunting the Track Road pole line Mark spotted a moose while walking on his own. By the time he got back to the bog where I was set up the animal was spooked and long gone. Attempts to drive the big cow out of the woods were unsuccessful.

18.   We did a lot of riding on the bikes, exploring and covering a bunch of ground on many trips to both Track & Gully Pond Roads. Any time spent enjoying the woods is certainly better then being home or at work!

17.   Since this was my first moose license, I also wanted to get in hunting with Dad as it had been years since we got to hunt together.

16.   Early Monday morning near the end of October I met dad on Salmonier Line and we headed down the shore to Back River, an area where dad has taken a lot of moose over the years.

15.  We had a great day hunting, we chose to leave the bikes at the trucks and walked the entire day as to not spook any game. We didn't see any moose but we had a great boil-up and thoroughly enjoyed the beautiful sunny fall day together.

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11.   The following week Maffer joined Dad and I for another hunt at Back River. Maffer took his Can Am Outlander, I had Project Foreman, and Dad was riding his 2006 Outlander Max 400.

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9.   Today we changed up strategies and rode most of the way into the country on our ATV's following the licensed ATV trail, stopping to hunt different bogs & cut over's all along the way.

8.   The afternoon was getting short so we made an express run back to the trucks following the the same trail. Even though it's a licensed trail, it's still very tricky in places with many deep bog holes along the route. There was one particularly deep water hole which was filled with logs. It looked like a nice wooden bridge, but the logs were unattached and floating! Project Foreman pulled through with 4wd and the front diff locker working double duty!

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5.   We got a little dirty, Dad and Maffer both got stuck a few times, but we had a great hunt and a very fun ride!

4.   Throughout late October & early November I made a lot of solo runs all over the Southern Shore, even as far as Ferryland scouting out new to me hunting areas, exploring woods roads and paths in the truck, on foot and on ATV.