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 Hunting moose is both a challenging and tremendously rewarding experience. Moose rely heavily on their sense of hearing and smell but less on their sense of sight.
The hunting style is Spot and Stalk mixed with a hearty component of "bugling and rattling" especially during the rut period.
Each day begins with an early rise, a hot shower and a hearty breakfast. You will leave camp just as the dawn begins to show. Access to prime hunting areas is readily available whether you travel on foot, by boat, or by eight wheeled ATV. You will "still hunt" the known feeding areas during early morning and late evening. During mid-day you will hunt the areas between bedding and feeding. Extensive glassing and careful movement is very important as moose blend very well with the color of their surroundings, and they tend to favor areas with abundant cover. This often makes them difficult to see.
Your guide will provide everything needed to support you during your days afield. It is important to communicate with your guide as this will insure that every element of your hunt is tailored to your specific needs.
Moose hunting success rate = 90%.
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 Hunting Woodland Caribou with either bow, rifle or muzzleloader is also a challenging experience. Although they share approximately 30% of their summer and fall range with Moose, Woodland Caribou are most often hunted in areas with a mix of open barrens and interspersed wooded areas and ponds.
The hunting technique is "Spot and Stalk". Glassing is a very productive way to locate caribou, and of course to minimize the walking distances. Woodland Caribou move virtually constantly as they browse on the lichen covered barrens. Often, you may glass an area for an hour and see nothing, then suddenly, as if appearing out of "thin air" you could be surrounded by twenty-five caribou, amongst which is often the trophy of your dreams.
The most productive areas for hunting woodland caribou always provide ample cover for an effective stalk, especially when combined with an even amount of hunter patience. The woodland's feeding habits provides a full day of "spot and stalk" hunting, as unlike Moose, Woodland Caribou browse and rest in a continuous cycle of short periods. And unlike Moose, they usually rest in areas where they remain visible, especially on a sunny day.
Your day of hunting will begin with an early rise, a hot shower, and, a hearty breakfast. You will be ready to leave camp, either on foot, or by boat just as the easterly horizon begins to show its first hint of morning. The pace and duration of your daily hunting will be tailored to your wishes simply by communicating your desires to your guide.
Caribou hunting success rate = 90%.
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 Hunting Black Bear during the Spring season (last week of May to first week of July) is done both from solidly constructed and safe baited tree stands and ground blinds, and also as a newly introduced very exciting "Spot-and-Stalk" style hunt in specially selected areas. (Be sure to also ask for details of the Spot-and-Stalk Hunt). For baited hunts, all stands and ground blinds are "guaranteed active" and set up with due consideration for the weapon of choice to be used. Baited hunts are mainly a "late evening" hunt, with other available time filled with the hunters choice of fishing for Brook Trout and Landlocked Salmon, hunting for coyotes, photo safaris or "spot and stalk" hunting in areas away from baited stands. The SPECIAL "Spot-and-Stalk" hunt is a daylight to dark hunt in areas specially selected for and very conducive to success with this hunt style. The "spot-and-stalk" hunt is limited to rifle and muzzle-loader hunters. Our European hunting guests appear to prefer this Spot-and-Stalk hunt style because of the added adventure and because of the application of more basic hunting skills needed for success.
For the baited hunts, all bait sets will be monitored by "trail timers" to determine the rhythm of bears feeding at individual locations. You will be positioned in your stand to provide you with the greatest opportunity for success. Nobody, other than yourself and your guide, who will replenish the bait, will be permitted access to baited stands. At the appropriate time, yourself and your guide will travel out to the hunting area, the bait supply will be refreshed and you will be assisted into your stand/blind . Guidance on what time to expect to be picked up and what to do and not do will be provided. You will then be left alone in your stand to await the arrival of your trophy bear. His arrival will be the undisputed evidence of your ability to contain your urges to move, scratch, chew gum, smoke or fiddle with your camcorder and other gadgets. Remember, you are competing against the keenest ears and noses in the wilderness.
For the spot-and-stalk hunts, especially during the Spring season, we have scouted and selected several areas that are highly conducive to high success in harvesting the largest of Newfoundland's huge Black Bears. We will be applying practised and proven techniques to ensure that hunters experience the optimum enjoyment of Black Bear hunting adventures. This is a hunt you won't want to miss. Call Now, and book your hunt. Pine Ridge Lodge is the "only" outfitter in the province of Newfoundland offering this "SPECIAL" SPOT-AND-STALK BLACK BEAR HUNT" during the Spring season.
During the Fall season, we also will be offering both baited, and "spot-and-stalk" hunts. For the Fall season, the spot-and-stalk hunt will be conducted in areas different from those of the Spring hunt. Baited hunts will be conducted in the same areas as during the Spring hunt. The baited bear hunts are provided at both air accessible and ground accessible locations. The special Spring "spot-and-stalk" bear hunt is conducted only in remote areas, accessible only by air.
Black Bear hunting success rate = 80%.
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