BUCKFIELD - A Sumner man had good, then bad, luck Saturday morning, opening day of the Maine residents' firearms hunting season for deer.

Michael J. Trenoweth, 35, harvested a large buck, then, while hauling it on the back of an all-terrain vehicle to a relative's house off Paris Hill Road, the back-heavy 2001 Yamaha four-wheeler flipped onto him and driver, John Trenoweth, 28, of Buckfield, Warden Steve Allarie said late Saturday afternoon.

John Trenoweth was not injured, but Michael Trenoweth suffered head cuts from the antlers and complained of chest pain, Allarie said.

Michael Trenoweth was taken to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston for observation.

Allarie said Michael Trenoweth bagged the 10-point, 200-plus-pound buck just after 8 a.m. After gutting it and tying it to the single-seat ATV's back luggage rack, he then climbed on behind John Trenoweth.

While hauling it across a field between 8:45 and 8:56 a.m. behind 484 Paris Hill Road, the younger Trenoweth hit a rock. The combined weight of the older Trenoweth and his deer flipped the front end up and over backwards.

Neither Trenoweth was wearing helmets. Also, Michael Trenoweth didn't have the deer marked with a transport tag, which Allarie said was a minor fish-and-game violation for illegally transporting a deer on an ATV. However, due to Saturday's downpour, the accident and wet hunters in the group of three or four, he said wouldn't issue a summons.

Warden Brock Clukey of Andover assisted.