Newfoundland Experience

[david k.]

Fairchaser and I had a trip that neither of us will likely ever forget! Newfoundland is a very wild, extremely rugged but absolutely beautiful place!

We booked our hunt with Dashwood Outfitters, who are fantastic people and run a great camp accessible only by float plane.

While we were there we had to contend with Hurricane Fiona which made for a few dicey days as it moved through the area only about 20-30 miles from our camp…that cost us a couple days hunting but, fortunately I was still able to take my first moose, a 7 pointer that we guessed to be about 900 pounds on the hoof….big animals for sure!

 

[PossumSlayer]

Congratulations!

 

[bobbuck]

Awesome!

 

[megalomaniac]

How do you eat a moose? One bite at a time

Congrats on quite the adventure!

 

[clwg97]

Congrats! I was wondering when you would post the results!

 

[Chiflyguy]

Nice
Love

 

[PossumSlayer]

What meat is moose similar to??

 

[Wade195]

Great job

 

[PossumSlayer]

What meat is moose similar to

 

[david k.]

What meat is moose similar to

It was the first time I'd eaten any moose...the camp cook did up a tenderloin one night and if I hadn't known it was moose, I would've thought it was beef.

 

[timberjack86]

Congrats!! Thanks for the story and pics!!

 

[DoubleRidge]

Good deal! Congratulations!

 

[EastTNHunter]

Dream hunt for me. Congrats!

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Congrats! Moose is very good. We once smoked it until it would shred like pulled pork, then made chili with it. Fantastic

 

[Specializedjon]

Congrats. Sounds like a great trip.

 

[RUGER]

Congrats !

 

[fairchaser]

Congratulations David on your moose. I can't wait to see how the euro mount is gonna look as well as taste some of that backstrap. We had some one night at camp and it was really good! The tongue was also very interesting to eat. You are a great friend and hunter. I hope we get to go again.

 

[7mm08]

Congratulations David on your moose. I can't wait to see how the euro mount is gonna look as well as taste some of that backstrap. We had some one night at camp and it was really good! The tongue was also very interesting to eat. You are a great friend and hunter. I hope we get to go again.

I had fresh moose liver one evening in Maine. Outstanding. I can't imagine tongue however. I found moose burger to be very mild as well.

Was this your first float plane ride? Congrats again !

 

[fairchaser]

I had fresh moose liver one evening in Maine. Outstanding. I can't imagine tongue however. I found moose burger to be very mild as well.

Was this your first float plane ride? Congrats again !

My first float plane but I have flown on small bush planes a couple times. These older beavers and otters are pretty basic with only a few gauges and lots of levers, knobs and buttons. They are very reliable and can fly a lot of weight.

 

[turk870]

Congrats, it's a cool place would love to go up there grouse hunting. I did a trip out of Gander camp access was by boat. I wound up getting the only moose I seen all week ( which at that time was the biggest the outfitter had ever taken) and my buddy got a caribou the last morning right before we had to leave for the plane home.

 

[Gravey]

Congrats! Sounds like y'all had a great time!

 

[AT Hiker]

@fairchaser have you had beef tongue?
I've eaten tongue from just about every critter I've killed. All very meaty but about 50% of the time beef tongue is super fatty, much like pork belly.
Sous vide tongue for 36 hours, skin it, dice it then sauté with Tex mex seasoning…tacos!

 

[fairchaser]

@fairchaser have you had beef tongue?
I've eaten tongue from just about every critter I've killed. All very meaty but about 50% of the time beef tongue is super fatty, much like pork belly.
Sous vide tongue for 36 hours, skin it, dice it then sauté with Tex mex seasoning…tacos!

AT, I would have never ventured into the culinary world of tongue had it not been served up to me under the scrutiny of other hunters waiting on me to taste it or else. It wasn't terrible but certainly interesting. With enough hot sauce and seasoning I guess anything can be eaten.

 

[david k.]

AT, I would have never ventured into the culinary world of tongue had it not been served up to me under the scrutiny of other hunters waiting on me to taste it or else. It wasn't terrible but certainly interesting. With enough hot sauce and seasoning I guess anything can be eaten.

I'm very thankful that we stayed out late that night and I missed dinner back at camp!!!!

 

[41Magnum]

Well done Sir!

 

[megalomaniac]

Dunno about moose tongue, but I LOVE slow smoked beef tongue.

How did you get the meat shipped back to the states?

 

[david k.]

Dunno about moose tongue, but I LOVE slow smoked beef tongue.

How did you get the meat shipped back to the states?

We took it to a processing plant, which by the way was the cleanest wild game processor I've ever seen in over 45 years of hunting. They have an arrangement with a frozen foods shipper who hauls the meat to one of several frozen food storage facilities in the states. My closest options were to have it shipped to either St. Louis or to Acworth, GA. I'm having it shipped to GA and my brother, who lives just north of Atlanta, will pick it up and bring it here to West TN in exchange for a bunch of moose meat....

 

[megalomaniac]

We took it to a processing plant, which by the way was the cleanest wild game processor I've ever seen in over 45 years of hunting. They have an arrangement with a frozen foods shipper who hauls the meat to one of several frozen food storage facilities in the states. My closest options were to have it shipped to either St. Louis or to Acworth, GA. I'm having it shipped to GA and my brother, who lives just north of Atlanta, will pick it up and bring it here to West TN in exchange for a bunch of moose meat....

That's actually not too bad to pick up st Louis or Atlanta!

 

[bigtex]

Congrats on your hunt. Sounds like you guys had a great time!