I Shot a Bull Moose at 12 Feet with a Longbow and Wood Arrows | Traditional Archery Bow Hunt

[@scottreker2862]

Awesome hunting story. And to be able to do it with a close friend. I’m 55yrs old now and I shot my first deer with a bow when I was 13 yrs old. My father was with me for that hunt. Great memory.

[@toolkit71]

I was an archer 40 years ago and in the army, but haven't picked up either weapons since I left but my friend has a 4 some that gets a tag here every year and share it and since they are alone I normally get a roast or something. Next year I think I have to get my license as one just passed away so I have to get my license as I love Moose burgers and roasts....love them. Never had bear yet.

[@toolkit71]

Also moose are not native to NL but there are like 100k of them because of someone bring a bunch of them over for a hunt....no native predators.

[@adamredden2007]

Man, this is fantastic! That's some quality food security there. Good for you, Shawn.

[@mimiso516]

Yea! Bow hunting is difficult to say the least let alone bring down a bull moose. Congrats

[@frankfox8784]

It’s also Cruel

[@briandunn5899]

​@@frankfox8784what's cruel??

[@enuhsolrac]

@@frankfox8784 No.

[@donaldhofman5257]

Congratulations Shawn!!!

[@TylerEdwards]

Opening shot. Wow! Congrats on a beautiful harvest

[@kooskool]

Harvest? It is just killing an animal

[@kooskool]

@@Chuck_W59you don’t understand what killing an animal means? Kiddo?

[@PandaLife-lp8kn]

Having watched several hunts online both rifle and bow, the sheer difficulty, adrenaline dump, and trailblazing miles on foot hauling 5oo lbs out of the bush is not conveyed in Shawns humble narrative. This man is truly a god like Hunter, and friend to drop everything and answer the call of the wild. Thank you, I can't wait for some more pics, and I hope next time you are wearing a police chest cam. Who knew your story online was truly a call to action vs an opportunity to live vicariously through your epic film making. Unfortunately a year from now the majority of us will wish we had at least attempted to take action and prepare for a new way of life that is to come and now is.

[@betty27246]

Cool Enjoyed your hunting experience

[@marygordon3032]

AWESOME SHAWN, THANKS!!! 👏👏👏🤩🤩🤩💯💯💯

[@theodorehowe2262]

Great hunt with your friend, nice story about your experience. Beautiful 🫎 moose

[@rodneywroten2994]

very nice moose Shawn

[@conniewaite1371]

There is a grandma in Michigan who bow hunts,long bow,gets a deer every year,30 lb. Bow

[@tonykennedy1615]

I used to call them in here in AB. Never shot one with a bow but I remember missing a 2 year old at about 6 feet with a rifle. He was too close to see in the scope. I called him in from about 300 yards. He came in at a dead run. I was behind a small spruce he was on the other side. All I could see was his head. I used to shoot one every year but haven't in many years since I turned mostly vegetarian. After I got good at calling them and knew where they typically rutted it was like shooting fish in a barrel. I'm glad I missed that young bull in hindshight. I prefer not killing things nowadays. I enjoyed the time outdoors. Still do. I called several in for fun with my wife. Had to chase some away. Dumb as dirt in the rut. Lol. Good memories. Congrats on the hunt :)

[@larrylapierre2295]

Thanks for sharing your hunt awesome.

[@Kaboom-0623]

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[@leevanroestel6655]

Awesome recap! Thanks for sharing.

[@territhreet]

Congratulations! I love the story of the hunt. People just sit in deer blinds these days. I enjoyed that yall actually worked for it. Makes for a much better joy for sure. Have a great week. Thanks for sharing.

[@DavidJones-ly9bh]

Great hunt!..thanks for sharing.

[@MooseManDoug]

Nothing beats an archery moose! I was guiding in NW Ont again this year and weather was tough, way to hot and windy but we still managed a good bull

[@robertgraves3215]

Awesome story. Not sure if I'll ever have the balls to hunt moose. I have a 55 Lb. Bighorn Ram Hunter Longbow that needs to get dusted off. Last week I scored a 45 Lb. Bear Super Magnum 48 recurve, year marked 1953. In near perfect shape . I paid, get this seven bucks for it at a flea market .

[@papajeff5486]

Shawn, I can’t remember why your porch posts are raised up, on big bolts. Maybe you could either tell me why? So, that’s a fair amount of freezer meat from that beautiful, trophy moose bull. Way to go, Shawn! Thanks for sharing…from an old man in the US, hills of Tennessee.

[@Roheryn100]

Because new cabins are going to settle over the first few years. He can adjust the screw jacks to help the columns compensate for any shifting and settling. Usually he has collars around the bases to hide the screws.

[@sandyjuntunen4088]

@@Roheryn100 maybe he's been adjusting them.

[@Roheryn100]

@@sandyjuntunen4088 Could be !

[@davidlaue8225]

@@sandyjuntunen4088 He just did a video about 5 months ago showing an adjustment.....

[@michaelpetty8416]

Great harvest. Good job Shawn.

[@frankfox8784]

@@michaelpetty8416 Great Harvest ? Why do you try to make killing a Moose sound like he has just dug up some Potatoes?

[@conniewaite1371]

Because with what they are doing to our food and the price of food at the stores,you are better off living off the land.when there is a war on food,people will start stealing it from others,you have to know how to be self reliant​@@frankfox8784

[@michaelpetty8416]

@@frankfox8784 Read a history book and find out what happened when a society tried to live on just potatoes.

[@TimmyHill-bv3iv]

Congratulations Shawn meat for the winter an good looking Moose 🫎

[@williamrhea3535]

Shawn, I have a question. You said this was a buddy hunt? Do you and your friend hunt on the same days or do you alternate hunting days? The reason I ask is if you are both hunting at the same time, what if you both were to harvest an animal? Thanks for your great content.

[@ShawnJames1]

Thanks. The law is that you have to be within 5 kilometres of each other and in reliable communication- cell phone, satellite phone or 2way radio - to notify the other party members that the tag is filled.

[@kenadams5504]

That WAS a majestic beast .

[@jetman258]

Congrats, a good hunt is always. A nice adventure. 👍👍👍

[@lisahause8705]

Congratulations…Mr. James! 🥳 My brother got his Big Horn Sheep in Wyoming! My husband will be hunting later on …last week of October…for deer! Nice moose…so happy for YA!!! Good eats! Yum in the tum!😋👍🏻

[@scotttan6377]

What luck ! That was cutting it close to get that moose in . Bet your friend was happy after spending many days coming up empty . Never hunted , but always heard and read that it's a lot of work - the hunt then dispatching the carcass and carrying it back . My hunt is more simple just having to dodge the shopping carts and standing in line at check-out ( lol ) .

[@dawnskent1667]

Awesome , winter food😊

[@deborahplyler6528]

Very exciting hunting week wow, its cool you got a moose.

[@Northernwoodsandwaters]

Congrats! I love an old fashioned traditional hunt, very impressive. Great job!

[@scottlangille9900]

Congratulations Shaun beautiful harvest bull moose 🫎. The head would look good stuff hanging in your cabin 👍. Best regards

[@frankspragg9494]

You are definitely skilled with your bow.

[@frankfox8784]

What from 12 ft ??

[@frankspragg9494]

@frankfox8784 The skill is getting 12 feet from your moose. Surprising how easy it is to screw up when you are that close to your game!

[@steveshepard7935]

Congratulations Shawn.! That's great news.

[@Terragato]

Awesome story! Thanks for sharing!

[@taurota1554]

Awesome and outstanding as always.Thanks for sharing and taking us along.

[@lindapetersen1800]

WOW SHAWN & OUR CALI !!! A moose How to get a Bull Moose is to dress like a Moose Cow !!! That is something Shawn !!! Enough meat for both of your families there !!! This is something Shawn !!!

[@danieloliver20]

Congrats Shawn, i like my steak medium! 🫎

[@tristadavid]

Medium rare for venison 😀Once you've tried it that way you'll never go back.

[@20x20Ghost]

Wow! amazing Hunt . Much respect to you Shawn your knowledge is so great I feel that I learn something every video you put out " Thank you "

[@IGWorkshop]

What a beauty. Congratulations!

[@jimmywood7817]

Congrats. That is awesome

[@douggibson9084]

Wow, if you were wearing a heart monitor would it be registering 65bpm?? Super exciting, thanks Shawn.

[@terrymayberry]

Congrats! Great bull!

[@louiswhitehead5938]

Congratulations on your bull moose . Looks like a nice one . We here in the south in Arkansas hunt turkeys kinda like y’ll hunt moose . It’s miles of walking and calling and setting up in cover when we find and start working a gobbler . It’s all fun and exciting in the woods hunting whatever your after . I really enjoy all your videos .

[@peperetuque7744]

great hunt for sure thank you for sharing

[@HH-li5xl]

Wow!! Congrats.

[@virginiajorgensen8614]

That is terrific. Congrats.

[@sunrisesidesnowdogs5920]

Exciting story and nice to fill your freezer!

[@teofilaliman550]

Congrats from Romania ,thats a great trophee man !

[@tjtran1987]

Congrats on the beauty bull Shawn 👍🏻

[@charlesblum208]

I've spent most of my life in Minnesota and traveled to Ontario many time when I was a kid. Many Summers we'd spend a week fishing Elephant Lake (Kukukus) near Ignace. Once flew into Lake Wabakimi on fishing trip. Many, many great Ontario memories. )

[@Toms_Bright_Ideas]

I'm impressed you got that close to shoot it. I would think they can be pretty dangerous the closer you are to them.

[@markasiala6355]

Great story of the hunt. I don't know if I could not get buck fever (bull fever?) at 12 feet away, that's amazing.

[@supernova7799]

Poor thing. Eat well. 🎉

[@JC-sj2pd]

🤦🏻‍♂️

[@TeutonicNordwind]

??

[@pepifarms5009]

Way to go Sean and Darren how many pounds of meat did you guys get out of the bull moose for your families

[@ShawnJames1]

Darran dropped it off at our butcher friends shop but I haven’t heard back on the weight of the quarters. Probably 350#

[@pepifarms5009]

@@ShawnJames1 congratulations to you both that will be well deserved meet throughout the winter your videos are extraordinary . Shawn

[@garthwunsch7320]

My dad used to put any bones that he needed cleaned on an ant hill (they used huge trurtle shells for bowls and the ants polished them perfectly clean), but he was on a farm. You may have trouble with predators wanting your trophy. Great video.

[@tiredredneck8159]

Salon 40 hair bleach works amazing for skulls. Or just the old peroxide/water soak. Really makes it pop. But be sure to tape the antlers up.

[@paulbird3235]

That's dinner sorted!.

[@producerk8247]

A few dinners!

[@kooskool]

What did the animal do to deserve to be killed?

[@TeutonicNordwind]

@@kooskool Was born. Beasts of the field. And need to be managed besides being a good, healthy food source.

[@kooskool]

@@TeutonicNordwindyeah, right, how convenient

[@TeutonicNordwind]

@@kooskool By design. God made the fish in the sea and beasts of the field as resources for us to be stewards of and use. They have no souls. They're animals. We are top of the food chain. Wake up and man up, Sally

[@AugustoAsparo]

Great job shawn!! Watching from the Philippines for a few years now..

[@DorisGronewold]

Elk hunting just started in our area across the Northern States. I actually had a bull Elk out behind our barn. I, at first, thought it was a neighbor's horse. Sent it off.

[@darrendavidsonoutdoors]

After being charged by a bull moose during the rut one year while breaking branches to set up a bear stand, it got me very interested in archery hunting. I apply for archery tag every year as my first choice but haven't got a tag yet. Hoping one of these years I do.

[@lorettafrancoeur8476]

Congratulations on your hunt.

[@pzmrstampella120mm]

Kräftiges Waidmannsheil!

[@marianfrances4959]

Seriously awesome moose, not to mention that rack! Woo hoo! 👍😎🇨🇦🫎

[@tiredredneck8159]

Friggin nice man!!

[@tonyn3123]

Congratulations!

[@michaelboom7704]

Great! Forgot about the hunt which I assume is why no video!

[@HotrodRon74]

I wondered where you were,,,hunts like this is fun,because you never no whats going to come out..i always still hunt,,or im in a stand..still hunting pays off sometimes,,if the Bucks are after the does,they dont care where they go,,,thats when you get very lucky ..i can taste that pot roast now man..Cheers man,,,now the real job starts

[@paulhallgren7001]

What a great hunt.... thanks for sharing that great experience of your hunt.....

[@Matt-d8m]

To be honest, I didn’t think you guys were going to have success. Didn’t sound optimistic in the last video. Glad you got it done!

[@michaelwalker2091]

Nice bull!

[@NereideBibo-jj4hm]

Realmente ❤

[@ericstoever9577]

Congratulations! Things could have gone pear shaped at that range. Getting a good shot is difficult in any circumstances, at that range it’s a gift.

[@elizabethjohnson475]

Love this, Shawn! from far north California

[@LiveAlohaOhana]

Wow that is so awesome Shawn! Congratulations 🫎 🌲 Over here it's big sharks up close ,but a huge bull moose that close would freak me out 🤪 Good job " definitely exciting ! Ps the shop looks awesome! 🐕 🍁 Cali ❤

[@danieljulio8574]

Wow, ,,,you got meat for the winter, bro keep doing you ,blessing are towards yo👊

[@bobbygreen2291]

Congratulations Shawn

[@straubdavid9]

Huge congrats .... you've had one heck of a hunting season. Yes, you have to put in the work .... and that may be too much for me now unfortunately. I have always been about the place I hunt and fish ..... more so than the actual harvest. If I'm going to be in the woods from sunup to sundown, it has to be in a place I really enjoy. Most of my memories are about sitting and watching the woods wake up. You are definitely doing it right, and are making your own wonderful memories for yourself, your wife and girls, plus the pups you've had over the years. Cali is living her best life for sure🦮 Take care, and continued success in all you do Shawn👍🏻✌🏻🌲🍁🏹

[@jerrycrawford6985]

how do you get something that big out of the woods

[@ws775]

You quarter it. And then quarter it again, and again.

[@MattMcRae-s6i]

Take care, be safe. -Matt in the U.P.

[@roba379]

Congrats!! Love the content, keep up the awesome! We def appreciate you and your family's work to make these

[@hazelnut410]

Perfect fit and congrates.

[@locksbog4270]

Great stuff Shawn 👍😃✌️💪

[@sway696]

Congrats Shawn. That’s a beauty.😁

[@jerryfischer3988]

Wow, long bow at that!

[@remystraub6990]

merci JAMES

[@DorisGronewold]

Congratulations Shawn, on your hunting skills with a Bow,. Pretty impressive skill.

[@Asrafsdff]

You are a good hunter

[@shannonwilliams1941]

The title got me wow 12 feet with an arrow!!!!! 😮

[@billfraser2279]

Really enjoyed hearing about your great hunt. Twelve feet on the ground from it. That must have been really exciting having such a large, wild animal so close.

[@EthanPageHunter]

Congrats Shawn! Good harvest!

[@radagast6682]

Great score on the moose! If you hunted where the red X is on the map, then you were south of Lac Seul. I have fished the Lac Seul for 40 years, and have flown out of goose bay.

[@joshuahughes133]

Congratulations

[@jimdiroffii]

I've had a small doe at 10 feet on the ground, and couldn't stop shaking for a good shot. I can hardly imagine harvesting a mature moose at that range! Congratulations.

[@twintwo1429]

Yes, I also eat moose to supplement all my supplements that accentuate my other supplements in my expensive coffee. Yes I spend $ 200,000 a year to live off grid, in my custom log cabin.

[@jamesedwards6269]

Great story. Bull moose with a long bow 💪💪💪 congrats

[@jimstryker646]

Congrats on a gorgeous bull! The laws must be a little different up there re sharing of tags. I don’t believe any states allow for filling a tag that someone else got drawn for, but I could be wrong. No states I’ve ever hunted in. As far as I know each hunter has to have their own tag. Sounds like an awesome experience! Would love to see a video of that big boy coming in on you.

[@ShawnJames1]

It's called party hunting and it applies to all big game hunting in Ontario. It keeps the hunt camp tradition alive by allowing more hunters to participate in the hunt.

[@jimstryker646]

@@ShawnJames1 I love that. Really wish we did that in the states. We have “party hunting” but everyone’s gotta have a tag. I live in AZ and it can take 5-7 years just to get drawn for elk. Frustrating. Miss hunting up north. Be well Shawn. Thanks for the response

[@kooskool]

@@jimstryker646must be for a reason, to prevent killing animals to extinction

[@MoonshinerSZS]

Wow! Spectacular! I am so sure that I even dont have that guts to shot it even in shorter distance! 😄

[@Sandberm]

Euro mounts look so cool. When I did my deer mount i used a pressure washer and proceeded to blow deer matter all over myself. Oh well, it was worth it. After bleaching and doing a bit of touch up staining of the antlers it turned out great. What make/model is the bow hanging on the wall at the top?

[@thejackhomestead8638]

Nice job my friend.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@lukewarm2075]

Wow so impressed great story also😊