Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Canada Newfoundland Moose hunt October 3rd

Cabins on the ferry are not available, due to covid. They don't even have the restaurant open. Just a deli/coffee bar. Bring snacks, pillows and prepare for a somewhat sleepless night. I don't do well with 100 dudes snoring.

That's interesting, we were told they weren't using the cabins when I booked months ago.

"Bringing firearms into Canada requires filling out paperwork and registering with Canada customs at the border. Form includes serial numbers, so there's no issue about bringing it back to U.S."

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Neither time we've done this have the us border asked a single question about our firearms.
All we did this time was declare the moose meat and fill out an import form when we got to the border.
Pretty easy.

That's weird. I went across last fall and they wanted you to use the cabins to limit contact with others. I got a room both ways, no problem.

Importing the meat is easy with a completed form. But, if you get a bull, the antlers are different matter. Returning to Michigan, we're not allowed to import skull or any brain matter unless it's been fully taxiderm'ed. If you cutoff the antlers at the base, you'll be okay. Don't know whether this affects all U.S. border crossings, or only Michigan. Personally, I think it's a wink-and-nod between U.S. and Canada to give more business to Canadian taxidermists. Brain born & prion diseases are a non-issue for moose in Canada.

Have a safe enjoyable hunt men!

"But, if you get a bull, the antlers are different matter."

They asked if we kept the antlers, but never looked. Didn't open the coolers, just made me open the tailgate.

We could have had 600 lbs of Pot!

Good luck Steve and others! Always wanted to do this trip. Sounds like quite an adventure..,

If you end up going through Montreal like we did customs is a disaster, allow lots of time. We missed connecting flights and had to overnight on the way in.

On a side note, everyone in camp saw a shooter caribou, but only one guy had a tag. It was 5k extra for bou tags where we were at.

As of September 22nd New Brunswick as their rules, haven’t checked them out yet.

Teeder, I’ll call Maritime Canada and get the scoop on the cabins, thanks for the heads up.
Our taxidermist wants the hides so we may have a problem bringing them back. I would do a European Mount on the skull and. Prefer to bring it home but not opposed to leaving it in NF and picking up next year on a return trip or possibly a fishing trip.

DId you tell the border agent YES re: antlers? When we went through US customs, the agent said, Line up, I’ll give the forms, don’t do anything until i tell you. Fill out sections 1,2,3,4 and sign and date. Thank you and congratulations.

Cut horns off leaving skull plate attatched—scoop out brain matter—skin skull plate—pour Clorox (Javex) over skull plate. No problem at Michigan border last year

We told him yes about having antlers. He never asked to see them, though.

Thanks guys.

I just went through this morning heading north. The Canadian border folks signed my rifle form without even looking at it. easiest northbound passage I have ever had.

I hope the US guys are as good southbound in 10 days

Hi, goodi to know.

noKnees, who is your outfitter? We are going to Tuckamore Lodge, the western Peniinsula, 400 miles from Port Aux Basque. Staying in Deer Lake next Saturday night. I checked in my rifles at Bradley IAP Border and Customs. He didn’t check the serial numbers and looked in one of my cases and not the other. HE said they will check at the border which I knew. Signed the form, BS’d for 15 minutes and went home.

Did they test you coming back either Canadians or US?

We were given "randomized test kits" to take with us when we crossed the border into Canada.
The instructions were: when we arrive at our destination we were to create an account on line, take the test, then someone would come to our destination to pick the tests up. I told him we were going to be in the middle of nowhere with no internet connection. He smiled and said "do our best".
We didn't do it. No one else in camp got the kits.
There were no covid related questions when we came back to the US.