Hunting for Moose in Northwestern Ontario (circa 2021) | Canada | Wilderness | Boreal Forest
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- We go hunting for moose in northwestern Ontario and enjoy the flora, fauna and scenery in the boreal forest. Peter sets up a modern camp, with tent and wood stove, he made from a machinist's tool box. They arrive at this remote location with provisions to be self sufficient for three weeks. Peter uses a traditional birch bark moose call. Before leaving the north, Peter digs out some black spruce and some tamarack trees to transplant to the 1700's homestead. He discusses the value of black spruce roots for stitching birch bark canoes, the value of gather tinder for fire starting and the practice by indigenous peoples of storing coal embers to transport as a fire starter.
Featuring - Peter Kelly
Cinematography - Catherine Wolfe
Producer & Editor - Shane Kelly
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The amazing music in this episode is graciously provided by our friends - Richard Fortier and Al MacDonald
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You may not have got a moose but you took me to a place most of us will never see . Thank you .
It's not likely that I'll ever see a boreal forest again but the scenery in this vid is WONDERFUL!
Thank you.
I'm sorry you didn't get a moose! It's wonderful meat. Kathy, thank you so much for your wonderful pictures. I truly enjoyed them. Thank you all for your amazing videos.
Thank you so much! We are off to northern Quebec this fall for our moose hunt.
Good evening Peter. Thanks for the upload. Hope all are well. Thanks
The natural environment of Canada is so amazing and magnificent. Perfect place for metal healing.😀👍👍
Indeed it is!
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Beautiful! Thank you! Brought back memories of when I lived in Alaska
Glad you enjoyed it Tom. We are planning to visit Alaska this summer after canoeing the Yukon River.
i have really enjoyed hunting in Canada in the past.Northern Alberta nearLessser Slave Lake was my favorite. A beautiful place. Hunting is wonderful and the older i get, the less i care if I shoot anything or not.
Your spot on, the best part of hunting isn’t the harvest but, simply being outside.
I’d like to Thanks both of you for a another wonderful video. Sorry you didn’t get your moose this year, I have high hopes for you in deer season. Special thanks to Kathy for the wonderful bonus footage.
Mr " Coureur des Bois" thank you!
thank you! I needed this video so bad. A couple weeks ago I was in a terrible vehicle wreck and 2 days later came down with covid. At this stage my lungs are shot and extremely short of breathe which is very stressful. As soon as the video started my anxiety literally went o zero and my heart rate finally slowed enough I could breathe! beautiful video!
My condolences Kevin. What a horrible couple of weeks you have had. I trust you will have a full recovery and I’m flattered that our video had such a calming effect on you.
@@TheWoodlandEscape thank you for the kind words and yes it was like someone flipped a switch in my brain. It's also the start of elk season here and being in this condition I'm not able to go right now so I think it gave me the experience I'm missing. Keep up the amazing work! Loved it, Modern immenities or not :)
Glad you had a great trip despite not getting the moose. The boreal forest is beautiful, and thankfully, huge. That fire tinder you were collecting is fireweed. We have it all over the place here in Alaska. In fact, your hunting area looks like my backyard... spruce, birch, moss, fireweed, labrador tea, mushrooms and all... now covered with a foot of new snow. I love walking on that moss. You are right in saying it is a privilege to be in a place like the boreal forest. Thanks for bringing us along again. As always, a joy to watch.
You live in a beautiful part of this world sir. Glad you’re enjoying.
Peter, you guys have made my 246 days of lockdown just a bit more bearable. The scenery looks amazing. Can’t wait to see what nexts for the homestead.
This video reminded me of my 20+ summers going to out post fly in fishing. Not too primitive as we at least had a propane strove. The woods were so serene and beautiful to walk through. The last trip we took after fishing we went to Cochrane for a few days then took the train to Moosonee for five days. Very interesting trip. I was especially intrigued with the reforesting system in Canada and visited a nursery while in Cochrane. They showed the process from gathering the pine cones to the replanting of the trees. I loved all the wild life footage. Sorry no moose but maybe next time. That's what hope is for.
Cochran’s was about the half way point of our drive. I took the Polar Bear Express a number of years age up to Moosonee … beautiful country. We’re glad you’re enjoying our endevour.
Hi from Syracuse NY USA brother and thank you for sharing your thoughts and adventures
Awesome video as always. Miss being up in the great white north!
I'm sorry you guys didn't get a moose this year but what an incredible trip this must've been regardless! The bonus footage from Kathy is fantastic too, I couldn't help but laugh at that poor squirrel dropping his food and chittering.
I will pass on your compliment to Cathy, thanks for your interest.
That's why they call it hunting and not killing!
Beautiful place!
I want to smell the woodsmoke and spruce. Wonderful job by Kathy. If you take the time to look there are an incredible number of things to see. Kathy took the time. Thanks
I’ll pass on your compliment to Cathy.
Elusive Moose but still a great video, thanks.
They are indeed, Miles. Oddly though, there always seems to be more when the hunting season isn’t open.
Love the stove
I made that out of a very old machinist tool bow … darn thing works great.
Very beautiful there thank you for this video
I love getting into Boreal forest, it is indeed beautiful.
Hey brother I used to haul sand to a gold mine I think it’s a little bit south of pickle Lake beautiful country up there enjoy your shows Enjoy the hunt I live in West Texas now
Trying to relate your 'adventures' to Australian conditions is near impossible. So different from my semi-arid environment.
Incredible in all differences, love them both.
I’d love to see your beautiful country someday … it would indeed be a polar opposite experience.
I do the same I’d even like to build a log cabin but the logs near me are not suitable unless I could source some plantation radiate pine🤔
Hello from Tennessee.
I really enjoy your videos.
I love the old ways.
Just subscribed. Been watching your videos several hours. Longtime flintlock shooter here in WV. We have an area here in WV in the potomac highlands that has flora similar to the Boreal forests you are in. Actually some areas look exactly like where you are at. Seems during the last ice age the glaciers dragged the seeds or plants down this way and only exist in the higher elevations. I am going to make me a pair of moccasins from your video. I have experience making leather accoutrements so I wont be complety lost. Your'e a cool guy. Love the history lessons and the historical trekking ........................Bob
Hi Bob. Thanks for both your interest and support. You live in a beautiful State. Used to visit a lot in my youth and climb Brock at New River Gorge as well as Mouth of Seneca.
The plants are unbelievable, just so Beautiful.
Boreal forest at a glance looks rather plain but, up close with an observant eye, it is outstandingly beautiful.
Thanks Pete. Perfect for us shut ins. Thanks for all
Glad you’re enjoying Bob.
WOW what Beautiful woodlands and Lakes you are a lucky man you should look up about them fungus too see what you can eat l see you film this back in 2021 so have you chaps gone back this year good too see you chaps have harvest some trees so for every tree you cut down you should plant 5 or more as a joiner I would be in my Element working with all that wood great video as always 👍👏👏
Thanks Simon and we do plant a whole lot more trees than we cut. This year we are heading for Northern Quebec for moose hunting but, the topography is pretty much the same.
@@TheWoodlandEscape Hope you have a great time wish I could be with you chaps 😊
20 years ago next September. I was on a caribou hunt. On the east side of Hudson bay. On lake Minto. It was it's own beauty. But where you were is gorgeous.
That is beautiful country. Were you successful ?
@@TheWoodlandEscape yes, two bulls with the longbow.
Wow, with a long bow … good on you!
Love it.👍👍
Many moons ago my dad, brother and I drove up to the Great Missanabi Lake to fish. I remember at the end of the lake was some carved stones that once marked a Hudson Bay post. Found out later it was a major route to the north. There was a lot of woods up there like what you were just in.
Ontario is one big old chuck of land. You can fit Texas and Montana in, with a wee bit of space left. The vast majority of it is Crown Land and a lot of it unspoiled.
Love watching your videos, both as a student of history, and as a prof. emeritus of same! Experiential archeology is the absolutely BEST way to learn, and I wish we had your videos when I was teaching (Univ. Calif, Davis). Great work, great research, and boy how I wish I had a parcel of land I could build a cabin like yours on!!!
Flattering and encouraging words, Alex. Thank you very much.
Whoa, you're way up in the north country! Had to check the map, but I guess all those pine trees gave it away. Great video.
Absolutely beautiful country and another great video.
The beautiful forest of Canada 👍🇵🇭
The area is just stunning! I tip me hat to you on choosing to use only one tag& for the replacement of trees at your home place....ATB
Time spent in the wilderness is never wasted...
Beautiful country.
It really is! Thanks for watching .
Thank you so much for this channel. I am homebound now but I used to hunt trap and fish here in NJ. I feel like I am there in your videos. Amazing fauna. Thanks again.
WhAt gun was he going to use ?
My uncle Paule just sold his place on Pickle lake , Seeing this makes me wish I had gone fishing with him .
Yup , you should have taken him up on the offer.
Love ALLyour videos, saved everyone and watch them repeatedly. Thanks
Flattered, Lance.
Just watched your video of working the lathe, great, loved it and the lady is fantastic seamstress
Have you given ant thought of doing a Bonsai from the Black Spruce? They would be beautiful!
As always, wonderful video. Its strange seeing you without the (typically) ever present Jenny. Enjoyable nonetheless.
Such beautiful country, ill have to make my way there some day.
Thank you for all you do, I'm sorry you didn't get a moose this year. God willing, your deer season will be much better. Blessings on you and yours, friend.
I almost feel naked without Jenny and I mat say William, you are very observant. It is odd but, I like the years the moose win as much as the years we harvest one. We have been pretty consistent with our deer harvest, usually 2 a year and the garden was amazing, so our grocery bill should be quite small. Thanks for your interest.
Beautiful video. The land is stunning. I have been to Ontario but no where that far north but through some forest. Absolutely breath taking.
Awesome stove 👍 great gear 👍 🎥 bag your moose ❤💪🙏
Wow Peter, You bring back great memories my friend. There’s nothing like calling in a Moose and shooting him at close range or cooking grouse on a fire you started with wet birchbark. The Canadian bush is some of the most beautiful land in the world ! Take Care…
Unsuccessful this year Joe but, spending 3 weeks in boreal forest can hardly be called unsuccessful! Still looking forward to participating n one of your courses, perhaps 2022.
@@TheWoodlandEscape Hey Peter, I’m with you anytime in the woods is a great time. Many folks haven’t been in the kind of forest you are in. I spent 2-4 weeks a year in Canada hunting for probably 15 years straight. My friend had a cabin bordering Crown land on a lake. Hundreds of acres of bush to explore and hunt. Moose is my favorite hunting and eating ( I’m a pretty good caller ) I definitely wasn’t always successful. We would love to have you in a class anytime. FANTASTIC VIDEOS AS ALWAYS,!
Greetings from England new subscriber love what you do 🇬🇧
Glad you’re enjoying and we appreciate your support.
Oh well, Moose are elusive. We have a few around here. I have yet to see one, my neighbor did get a picture of one this Spring and the Spring before that I saw the tracks of Moose and Large Bear on the same morning just down the road ( live on dead end dirt road ) - though,ynother neighbor saw them both within a 1/2 of each other as they ambled down his driveway which is at the end of the road - about 5 Am. Nice video anyway and it was fun to see the boreal forest and spongy moss laden forest floor.
I kinda like it when the moose win, almost as much I enjoy a successful harvest.
I love your videos! Thanks for sharing them with us. Greetings from Utah, USA.
Wow so you came to my neck of the woods! I guess we take our little piece of heaven for granted sometimes. We just call it the bush lol great video. Too bad you missed out on getting yourself a moose for your freezer. Regards Chris from Thunder Bay
Next year perhaps. I kinda like it when the moose win. Having said that, I do love moose meat. Thanks for your interest Chris.
Peter and Cathy, so sorry the moose hunt didn’t turn out as you would have liked. I guess that’s why they call it hunting and not catching. I did find the moose call curious, having never heard one before. Frankly, when I first heard you, Peter, blow it-or whatever its called-I rather thought is sounded more like the sort of sound I imagined the moose might make AFTER he or she’d been shot! Very mournful sound, to my ears, at any rate. Nevertheless, I so enjoy these experiences in the woodlands up North. They are a highlight of each week. One last thought. I wonder if you might explain how it was that you made the decision to start this channel? I’m pleased it is growing and hope that you will continue to do it for a long time to come. Best wishes!
The idea for our channel actually came from oldest son Shane. He suggest we film some of the crazy historical stuff we do and that people would be interested. Appears he was right. It has been a lot of fun producing this series.
Gorgeous views! Great video
The fire starter you were picking , if I'm not mistaken, looked like the seed pods of fireweed. We have lots of in out here in the west Kootenays.
Great videos.
Thanks Neil. Funny how ones mind works, I remembered the name once we released the video. Glad you’re enjoying.
Hi guys, this was a very interesting episode although no moose, the woods and waterways are pristine. Greetings from South Africa.
Thanks Walter and greetings back from Canada.
Bonjour à vous 😊 de Bordeaux Aquitaine. France. je vie que du bonheur avec vos videos 🎉😊
Thank you, we appreciate your interest.
Beautiful!
Awesome 👌
Another great video. Thanks for your dedication and your efforts! Safe and ethical is the way to go for such a large animal. It would be an amazing experience to harvest one as our forefathers had. Recently purchased a smooth bore and am itching to take it out. Thanks again and keep your powder dry!!
Thanks Ashley. Are you planning to hunt deer with your smoothbore?
@@TheWoodlandEscape It is something I would like to accomplish. I have taken deer with traditional long bow in the past. So it would be a next step in my primitive pursuits. It is a 20 ga. trade gun, any advice would be appreciated. Thanks
Glad i found your vdo i forgot name
My dog likes the recorder music
Sounds like you're calling Bullwinkle.
love it
Nice! I’m in Northern Ontario. About 5 hours south of Thunder Bay.
There’s a lot of Moose tracks but the last few days there’s been less and less… but last wkd, I saw 2 bucks in my camera, 3 cows and 2 calves; they went every day to go lick the salt. the weather hasnt been the best though, it’s been extremely warm compared to what it usually is for the month of October. This year, some nights (like on Friday evening, it stayed warm, around 15 to 18 degrees… same thing for yesterday… but it rained, it poured (I was walking in the bush just getting soaked, but still fun as heck )
it was warm all day all through the night. Today its 23 degrees! It’s way too warm to hunt today, I know I wouldn’t wanna open up a Moose when it’s warm like this 🤢
Side Note. for the fire starter kit… you can take a cotton ball and put some Vaseline on it and wrap it in tin foil. Make sure you have fire starter rods, then you just take a tiny piece of the cotton ball and light it up with your rods and then throw it in your firewood to start the fire. Then wrap the cotton ball back up 👍🏽
#HuntingWithACreeGirl 😉😂
Good advice on the fire starting items but, I’m afraid my fellow living historians would laugh me out of our historic camps. It was, and remains , much higher in terms of temperature for this time of the year. We had mosquitoes and black flies on our hunt.
We lost a great deal of moose up here in NW Ontario about 15 or 16 years ago with brain worm. They are trying to come back. Most of my friends who got tags the last few years never actually got to shoot one.
Up here we call them Camps not cottages. 😊 Took me some time when I moved up here to get use to saying I’m going to camp for the weekend instead of I’m going to the cottage for the week end.
We too call them camps here in Eastern Ontario. Pity about the decline of this magnificent animal. We are planning for Quebec next year.
Awesome. I have spent a lot of time in that type of country, and love it. We have hunted moose out of Armstrong, and my family homesteaded in North Western Ontario . Be careful. It is an unforgiving environment to be stranded in :- ]
Totally agree with the unforgiving environment Bob but, darn if I wouldn’t like being stranded there!
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It may not have been a successful Moose hunt but you certainly enjoyed the pristine environment of the boreal forest thank you for sharing it with us, is there conservation efforts in place for the wild life & fauna of the Boreal Forest ?? Curious if Forest officials do annual counts on moose ?? Black Spruce is interesting tree can't wait to see how quick they grow for you ?? Great video Peter see you next time friend !!
Our big game animal hunting seasons are strictly regulated, Arlene. The Ministry of Natural Resources do random aerial population surveys to determine how many tags to issue.
Hey fella, there came something across my thinking, as I watched one of ur camping trips, where you built a shelter out of wood, built a fireplace at one end of that shelter, & also you draped tan/brown cloth type tarps over your wooden frame work. Just so that you know which video I'm referring to.
Here's my question. Would you please make a video on th different colored garments that you wore that week. Tell th viewing audience what are they made of, did you or your wife sew them together?? Also, I saw u wearing an animal hide as well. It would help us viewers to know for ourselves, about how to keep th body warm, & how you suppose that th wildlife, can't distinguish colors of such brightness. Got it?? Thanks Brthrn Jeff B.
We make every thing that you see me wearing, as to colour, most animals are colour blind. Bear is the exception in the mammal world. Ducks and wild turkeys are not and good camouflage is required to successfully hunt them.
SIR I highly recommend the book series written by Alan Eckert. "The Frontiersman" is a good place to start.
I believe you will find his books most informative
Hey Rick. I’ve read every book Eckert ever wrote. He had a wonderful ability to put a real character to these real frontiersmen.
May I ask, what rifles are most common for moose in that neck of the woods? Thank you for the content! Love it
I’m using a 54 caliber flintlock this year but, the most common caliber is a 30 - 06 . I personally use a 338 Winchester magnum.
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what is the name of the music you played on a flute it is very pretty
Has no name, it was composed by a friend of mine. I do agree though, it is a very beautiful piece.
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Do you ever find wallows up there Peter? About 10 years ago we had two bulls hanging on our land and they made wallows. You could smell them from 60 yards away. Then the winter tick hit the NH herd hard and we rarely see moose now. Although I did see a yearling track this morning. I’ve never been drawn for our moose lottery.
Most years but, not this one. The area we hunted had recently had a steel tower line constructed up to a number of remote native communities and sadly pushed the moose out. Having said that, we had an amazing tie.
I was able to see that cow on Monday. She’s healthy with no tick rubbing issues. I’m happy to see her on my property except for her browsing my fruit trees
Two hunters are out hunting moose but after walking most of the day see nothing so one guy suggests splitting up to give them better odds and meeting on the other side of the hill in an hour or so. An hour passes and they both come across each other about a hundred metres apart but as one guy raises his weapon and takes aim the other guy waves his arms and yells just as a bullet crashes into his shoulder.
When the shooter gets to his mate he apologizes for shooting him as the injured guy yells and says, You idiot, I waved my arms and yelled " I'm not a moose" to which his friend said, "I'm so sorry but I thought you said I am a moose. 😃
Did you get any venison?
We didn’t get a moose but,we harvested two, 8 pointers for our winter meat.
what caliber do you normally use for moose? i am wondering if my rifle is enough.
75 bore flintlock would be minimal for moose in my opinion.
@@TheWoodlandEscape alright thank you!
I could call moose for ya, don't need a bark horn either, just feed me BEANS ..... OK 'more seriously' I have encountered 3 moose while fishing and EVERY time it was just as I'd hung a fly in the tree.. so apparently to call a moose just curse a lot.... and BINGO they show up.... LOL
Better Luck on the deer, May your Larder be overflowing...
We call it milk weed
Doesn't get any pretty than this. Looked like some good mushrooms. I'll look them up in my book.
We have 160 acres near Elk Lake, on the Montreal River Ontario
That is a beautiful area. I’ve canoed the Montreal river but n m youth.
@@TheWoodlandEscape when my ,then, 3 year old granddaughter was fishing with me on the Montreal she became tired of fishing and throw the rod/ reel in the river .lol, grandmother memories!
Turn down the flute.
Whats new rules on guns in Canada i am hearing not. Good things.
Not much has changed. Our long gun registration is now defunct… one needs not register long guns. Ha no guns have needed to be registered since 1933, so no change there. Handguns with barrels shorter than 4” are prohibited. However, if you owned a prohibited gun before the gun registration, you are grandfathered a license. So, my brother has a prohibited license, I don’t.
@@TheWoodlandEscape ty for reply another you tuber was saying something alot different. If i can find it maybe i can cut and paste it for you. Maybe he was taking about rifles and such. Anyway love your channel and i hope i get to see a hunting vdo. Oh and please state load data of rifle. I just built from kit a smt kibler makes these kits. Great flint lock kit. Ty again.
Ну,у нас в Сибири не хуже,если не лудше..
Whats the name of this Skyrim mod?
So Andrew, I don’t understand your question.
@@TheWoodlandEscape My apologies, it was a video game reference; a satirical joke that many of us experience nature virtually.
I don't want to distract you with nonsense.
Love the channel.
If that's a red tail hawk feather in your hat you realize it's federally illegal
It is a hand painted wild turkey feather, to look Iike a red taped hawk.
@@TheWoodlandEscape nice
Beautiful country up there. Absolutely astonishing. If it wasn't governed by a bunch of halfwit tyrants, I'd love to get some land there.
Beautiful country side. Who cares if you kill anything, would almost seem a shame to.
I’ll never give up the opportunity to harvest a moose but, I do agree, I kinda like it when the moose wins.
Why is there a Mouse hunting season? Are they classed as vermin as such. Live in the UK so not converse with your traditions.
We harvest wild animals almost exclusively for our source of protein. We have seasons (strictly regulated) for most big game species, small game and water fowl.
@@TheWoodlandEscape Glad it's to feed you and not just to kill as a blood sport not like the Toffs of our country.
I'm sorry you didn't get a moose! It's wonderful meat. Kathy, thank you so much for your wonderful pictures. I truly enjoyed them. Thank you all for your amazing videos.
Thank you so much!