The lottery for the 68,145 any-deer permits is open until Aug. 15, and the drawing for the fall hunt will be held on Sept. 6.
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Maine deer hunters undeterred by cold opener
WEST GARDINER — Firearm season for deer hunting opened on a cold Saturday, the start of what state wildlife experts predict could be even better than last year. Maine hunters wasted no time putting their permits to use. Trevor Berry of Farmingdale and his grandfather Charles Berry of West Gardiner found success Saturday morning, with […]
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Maine's expanded deer hunt begins with day for residents
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s expanded deer hunt is getting started with a special day that’s limited to state residents only. Saturday is Maine Resident Only Day for deer hunters. The state bumped the number of deer hunting permits by nearly 30 percent this year, to almost 85,000. The full firearms season for deer begins on […]
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Maine wildlife biologists recommend record number of any-deer permits in 2018
AUGUSTA — State biologists on Tuesday recommended issuing 84,745 any-deer permits for this fall’s hunt — an increase of 28 percent from last year and the highest total since Maine launched its permit system in 1986. State Wildlife Division Director Judy Camuso told the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s Advisory Council that in all […]
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Maine accepting applications for the 2017 deer hunt
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine is now accepting applications for the lottery to participate in its expanded deer hunting season this year. The state uses “any-deer” permits, which allow hunters to harvest deer of either sex, to manage the population. Maine is giving out more than 66,000 of the permits this year, up from less than […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Blood Trackers track down wounded deer
Most deer hunters will sooner or later in their hunting careers wound a deer and not recover it. It happens. The causes differ. A rushed shot. Buck fever. A gun with an inadequate caliber. A bullet’s impact or trajectory compromised by a tree limb. Often, particularly with inexperienced hunters, shots at a deer are taken […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Still deer hunting, after all these years
Back when America produced real leaders, one of them — Gen. Douglas MacArthur — said in one of his famous speeches that “old soldiers never die, they just fade away.” Maybe the same is true of old sportsmen. As a stalwart deer hunter from the Old School, I’m confronting a new social dynamic: most of my contemporary […]
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Biologists say early snow helped Maine’s deer hunters have a big harvest year
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s state biologists say early snowfall helped the Pine Tree State’s deer hunters have a productive year in 2014. Officials said deer hunters in Maine harvested 22,490 deer in 2014. The total is the second-highest of the past six years. State Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife deer biologist Kyle Ravana said […]
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Maine to issue 9,525 less deer-hunt permits
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine is accepting applications for the 2014 antlerless deer permit lottery. Paper applications are due by the end of the day on July 25 and online applicants have until 11:59 p.m. on Aug. 15. The state is scheduled to issue 37,185 “any deer” permits in 12 districts around Maine. The number represents […]