Adam St. Onge, left, Nicole Gillespie and John Perry chat as one of their deer gets weighed on Saturday at Audette's Hardware in Winthrop.
Snow falls as Nate Seamon, of Readfield, looks up at a scale Saturday at Audette's Hardware in Winthrop.
Andrea Jeffe, of Greene left, takes a picture of her husband, Ryan Jeffe, as he poses with a 219-pound buck as it hangs from scale Saturday at Audette's Hardware in Winthrop.
Lee Robinson types on a computer as he tags a deer for a customer on Saturday at Audette's Hardware in Winthrop. He said that hunters had tagged over 20 deer there that morning on Maine-resident-only firearms hunting opening day. The higher numbers on the board behind him included last Saturday's youth firearms day and bow hunting totals.
Grandfather Charles Berry shot this doe in Sunday Bowdoinham while hunting with his grandson Trevor.
Father and son Chad and Nick Perry, of West Gardiner, are excited about this hunting season. It's 10-year-old Nick's first full season.
At Fuller's store in West Gardiner, owner Walt Longfellow is happy to have business from hunters such as Randy Pierce, center. Dan Cunningham, left, says he has plenty of work cutting venison as a butcher.
In West Gardiner, Four Corners General Store employee Dawn Hunt, center, registers a deer brought to the store by grandfather and grandson hunters Charles and Trevor Berry.
In West Gardiner, Four Corners General Store employees Dawn Hunt, right, and Jordan Shaw, second from left, register a deer brought to the store by grandfather and grandson hunters Charles and Trevor Berry.
Skowhegan firefighters Daryl Wyman, left, and Capt. Rick Caldwell drew the opening day of deer season shift at the fire station, which also serves as a tagging station.
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