I have always wanted to hunt Anticosti, very beautiful bucks too! Congrats! Love the rifle too, I am a bit of a Tikka fan. I have a T3 Sporter in 260, a T3 Tactical in 308, and will likely hunt down the Arctic version sometime in the new year.
Result of deer hunting on Anticosti Island with my new Tikka T3 Arctic
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The rest of the world isn't Ontario.
Thanks. Anticosti is my annual vacation, I prefer that than going to a resort down south. Even brought my wife one year so she could understand why this place is so unique. If you come one day, I recommend where I was (camp Vaureal). The camp is by the sea, with giant cliffs and the second largest waterfall in Quebec. Going to hunt on a beach to take a long shot for a deer eating seeweed, with the smell of the sea and the scenery, that's worth living. When I come here I really live...
Awesome WT bucks I thought we had all the good bucks out west. Ha ha always some joker commenting on the sight picture. He obviously doesn't hunt as in you snooze you lose. Nice rifle as well, I too shoot for the neck as very little waisted meat.
I've been to Anticosti island 4 years ago. Great experience. Beautiful island. Lots of Deer.
Here are a few pics:
A whole lot of awesome in this pic.
Can I ask what a hunt costs on Anticosti? And congrats on the 2 bucks, that one with the lobster claw is very unique!
Cheers
Jay
It depends what kind of package you take. If you go for the basic (wood cabin, no guide, bring your own food, but pickup truck included and ATV included) it can be below $2000 for 4 days of hunting. The place where I go it's $3600, including nice accommodation by the sea, great food, 1 guide for 4 hunters, pickup truck and ATV. Some places are even more expensive and include salmon fishing in the morning and deer hunting in the afternoon. Of course, it's more expensive during the rut (but so much fun). Don't come in October, I was told all deers stay put and hunt is bad. September is good, November is best. Last year I hunted first week of December with 2-3 feet of snow, it was awesome scenery and easy to track deers.
Would that be for Quebec residents only? Non resident hunters in NL are required to have a guide.
Doesn't matter resident/non-resident. For more info go to SEPAQ website...english version for details.
http://www.sepaq.com/chasse/chevreuil/index.dot?language_id=1
I seem to recall reading that Anticosti was at one time stocked with a number of exotic game species, but that only the Whitetail established a successful breeding population. Too bad...I would love to travel there for a chance to hunt something like Red or Fallow deer, or some other exotic. I just can't understand the appeal of travelling so far from home to hunt the same species that I have in my backyard. Not any kind of crack at you, OP; if I lived in Quebec, I'd probably visit the island every year. 
I seem to recall reading that Anticosti was at one time stocked with a number of exotic game species, but that only the Whitetail established a successful breeding population. Too bad...I would love to travel there for a chance to hunt something like Red or Fallow deer, or some other exotic. I just can't understand the appeal of travelling so far from home to hunt the same species that I have in my backyard. Not any kind of crack at you, OP; if I lived in Quebec, I'd probably visit the island every year.
A good read here on the effects of deer on the island.
ftp://ftp.mrn.gouv.qc.ca/Public/Def... deer density and boreal forest_Anticosti.pdf
And I need to go Salmon fishing in BC!
The thing with Anticosti is its sheer size and beauty. About 60% of the hunters at our camps were Americans who come every year for 20 years+. One gentleman from Pittsburgh was 85 year old, staying for 2 weeks with 4 deers to bring back home.
FYI, the guy who introduced deer on the island in the early 1900s also introduced grouse, hare, moose, caribou, bear and wapiti. Deers are very prosperous, moose is surviving (not hunted I think), grouse and hare are seen, but wapiti, caribou and bears vanished...
The thing with Anticosti is its sheer size and beauty. About 60% of the hunters at our camps were Americans who come every year for 20 years+. One gentleman from Pittsburgh was 85 year old, staying for 2 weeks with 4 deers to bring back home.
FYI, the guy who introduced deer on the island in the early 1900s also introduced grouse, hare, moose, caribou, bear and wapiti. Deers are very prosperous, moose is surviving (not hunted I think), grouse and hare are seen, but wapiti, caribou and bears vanished...
