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EXACTLY....................

LBK, I think those are great reasons.

In the current climate of instant gratification, bigger-is-better, naming of bucks, referring to them as "shooters" or a particular number (score), this is a wonderfully grounded and rather refreshing perspective.

Thanks for the understanding.

You're preaching to the choir on this end. Good luck on your hunt!

Agreed!!!!

I cannot recall any conversation anywhere regarding deer hunting in the last 5 -10 years where Score was not mentioned.

Can't agree more with this. Its crazy what the hunting world has become in this regards. Don't get me wrong, I like to see some of the awesome critters guys shoot, but I do get turned off on the kill list stuff and if its not XXX"'s no one cares about it. I managed to shoot a good buck last Sunday in conditions that I rarely get to experience with my Mrs. in tow and those memories will last a long time. Not to mention the time I've got spend with my kids out hunting this year. Luckily I've got some good pards that enjoy the hunt and success no matter how big the rack. One posts here and he got his cow elk on his first trip west. A trophy in my mind. If I remember correctly, he's done this Anitcosti hunt as well and I've heard how many deer can be seen on a given day. Sounds like a wonderful time. Good luck to any of you that make that trip. Hope its successful.

Thanks. Hunting IS about memories. It's different to different people,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,BUT we ALL hunt.

If you hunt in a place with lots of deer and liberal bag limits, like I do, passing on bucks with small antlers seems like the best thing to do, since if you shoot them before they have matured, you'll never know how good they could have been. I only shoot three kinds of bucks; those that have large or interesting antlers that are worth sending to the taxidermist, those that have some sort of antler flaw and probably should be prevented from breeding, and those that have been wounded and need to be put down. That said, it is easy to be picky if you know that you're going to see more deer, often more than 20 per day, and can take 2 bucks and about as many antlerless deer as you want to buy tags for.

I would disagree that every deer is a trophy if you kill it on its terms. Unless you're hunting in a high fence operation, every wild deer lives on its own terms. To me, a deer is just a deer unless it is your first deer or if there is something that physically sets it apart from others of its species.

When my high school buddies come from NH to hunt in NE for the first time, I don't let them carry their rifles for the first day that they're here, otherwise they almost always want to shoot the first deer with forked antlers that they see. After they've hunted with me a couple of times, they tend to be more selective, unless it happens to be the last day of their hunt. I will note for the record that I'm much less interested in hunting than in shooting and prefer hunting squirrels to deer 'cause I can do it whenever I want to over a period of seven months, not just during 34 days out of every 365.

This has nothing to do with the island. I hunt to be in the woods. The trees, the wind, just being in the woods makes a successful trip to me. While I enjoy eating deer, have a shoulder roast cooking right now, I really like the woods. My wife is in yoga and meditates, I sit in the woods. I am more interested in the oddball rifle I am carrying than the size of the deer I shoot. This year for my first Michigan gun opener I am taking a 98 Mauser in 8mm with an octagon barrel I bought here on the fire. Maybe the island is a place I should go next year.

I hunt for the joy of being in the outdoors with my family. Getting some meat and trying to outwit a "big" one is part of the fun together.

I live only 5.5hrs from Mont-Joli where you meet the plane for the trip. It would be a a very easy/close trip for me to go to Anticosti.

Mortgage will be paid early 2018 ........ Hmmmmmm, need to think this one over a bit.

It takes us about 8 hours to drive it. We usually do it in 2 stages now that I'm older. We have been stopping in Derby Line Vermont in a motel to get some sleep. This year my wife wanted us to stop in Drummondvill Que instead. So that's the plane.

Do you fly out of Mont-Joli?

Me too!

Yes we do. We stay at the motel Le Gaspesienna. We always go up 2 or 3 days in advance and rummage around the Gaspe peninsula. We always have a great time. You can also fly out of Montreal or Quebec City

Mont Joli is close enough for me not to have to stay overnight. We do some work up north along the Gaspe. It's a beautiful spot but bloody cold in late fall and winter.

I'd like to think I'll go one of these years but then again if I'm gonna go to Canada I'm probably going to end up cutting to the chase and going for Moose instead.

And yet another point of view.