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Maine to issue fewer deer hunting permits in wake of a harsh winter

PORTLAND — This year’s harsh winter culled Maine’s deer herd, which will reduce the number of hunting permits the state issues for the fall hunting season, state officials said Friday. The winter mortality rate among the state’s approximately 200,000 deer was 12 percent, compared with 8 percent last winter and 10 percent for an average […]

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Youth Deer Hunting Day starts slow in West Paris

WEST PARIS —  While deer hunting early Saturday morning in the West Paris woods, Mitchell Mason told his older brother that he’d get his first deer later that day. Come 4 p.m., the 13-year-old West Paris native kept his word. He shot a 110-pound doe a mile or so behind Kevin Billings’ J&K Sporting Goods […]

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