Anticosti Deer Hunting 2016 - Much better

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Result of deer hunting on Anticosti Island with my new Tikka T3 Arctic. Hunted at Sepaq Vaureal sector.

Two very nice bucks. One came on the call in a swamp. Frontal neck shot at 70 yards as he was lifting his nose high up. One was crossing a road as I walked out of a swamp. I yelled, he stopped and stared so I had time to open the bipod, get on the ground and shoot. Neck shot at 153 yards. You can zoom in on the picture and see the deer on the road after my shot.

Even if deers are smaller in general on the island vs the mainland, you can find good specimens as you can see. Enough meat for the family for a few months after all I think :)

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Why the editing of posts???

So again is it legal there to shoot along (down) a roadway?

Is it safe to shoot along (down) a roadway?

Again... nice bucks.

Edit... I just noticed you started two thread's.
 
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hoytcanon said:
Thanks for the explanation of legality...
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Legal....not necessarily safe. Might be a little "safer" on an island but I know many outfitters in Quebec who have exclusive rights to big territoires and don't allow shooting from roads regardless of them being allowed to do so. People have been known to get "lost" and end up on private roads .
 
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Don't forget that Anticosti is entirely wild and the size of PEI, with nobody anywhere except the village at the western tip of the island. Roads are forestry roads, not public roads. And every hunter is alone on a 16-20 square km territory each day...
 
Tarkus said:
Don't forget that Anticosti is entirely wild and the size of PEI, with nobody anywhere except the village at the western tip of the island. Roads are forestry roads, not public roads. And every hunter is alone on a 16-20 square km territory each day...
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Don't forget, there are common sense rules about gun safety. Shooting along a road is not a safe practice, ever. Arguing that it likely is safe because it is quite possible no one will be on this particular road reveals more about your own understanding of gun safety than you want to show the whole world.
 
What can I say, this is the way it works at all outfitters on the island. There are caches on roads, everywhere, to shoot on the roads, and guides brings us on roads to make long shots. If don't agree, don't blame me, blame the outfitters and the government who authorize that. I did not write those rules nor set those practices.
 
rral22 said:
Don't forget, there are common sense rules about gun safety. Shooting along a road is not a safe practice, ever. Arguing that it likely is safe because it is quite possible no one will be on this particular road reveals more about your own understanding of gun safety than you want to show the whole world.
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You need to relax.
 
Tarkus said:
What can I say, this is the way it works at all outfitters on the island. There are caches on roads, everywhere, to shoot on the roads, and guides brings us on roads to make long shots. If don't agree, don't blame me, blame the outfitters and the government who authorize that. I did not write those rules nor set those practices.
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Whoever pulls the trigger is responsible for what happens, not the government.

You need to relax.
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Yeah, safety is nothing we should be concerned about.
 
rral22 said:
Whoever pulls the trigger is responsible for what happens, not the government.

Yeah, safety is nothing we should be concerned about.
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He made the judgement call based on the situation and all available information, and it is his responsibility entirely. He determined that the risks were low enough to feel comfortable shooting. The result was a dead deer.

I might not make the same judgement of risk, but what do I know? I wasn't there.

I might have waited till the buck crossed the road and shot him with a back-stop of trees. But again, I wasn't there...
 
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