The firearm hunting season for deer kicked off Saturday with Maine resident hunting day, and many local hunters found success according to several central Maine tagging stations.
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Maine’s deer-harvest hot spot may surprise you
Data show the top communities to bag a white-tailed deer over the past decade are clustered in central and southern Maine – and the No. 1 town outpaces all the others by a country mile.
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Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel, Outdoors
Skowhegan girls come out for Youth Hunting Day
Two teenage girls — one a first-timer and the other a ‘deer machine’ — talk about scoring big on Youth Hunting Day in Skowhegan.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Outdoors
Lawsuit contends Maine’s right-to-food amendment allows for Sunday hunting
The suit seeks to overturn the state’s ban on Sunday hunting because of ‘the unalienable constitutional right to harvest food.’
Posted inLocal & State, News, Outdoors
With most-ever permits issued, Maine deer harvest is highest since 1968
An abundant deer population in many areas and plenty of hunters were factors in this year’s numbers.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State
2021 hunting season has been safe and fruitful across western, central Maine
There had been no hunting related mishaps by the end of the day Friday.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Hunters take to central Maine woods with guns, family and … phones
Saturday was opening day of deer hunting season for Mainers hunting with firearms.
Posted inLocal & State
Maine is concerned hunters aren’t taking enough deer
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is reviewing its deer permitting system because of concerns that hunters aren’t harvesting enough to adequately manage the population.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: It’s long past time to regulate the killing of our state’s coyotes
L.D. 1265, a proposal to ban hunting coyotes at night and with bait and dogs, would treat the species with restraint and respect.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Outdoors
Maine hunters harvest most deer in almost 2 decades
Unofficial numbers show hunters killed 33,157 deer in the season that ended Dec. 12.