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PublishedNovember 26, 2011
KEN ALLEN: Black-powder shooting captures his soul
In the early 1980s, my mother and I bought my father a Thompson Center Hawken .50 caliber for Christmas, a percussion-cap muzzle-loader that looked like Robert Redford's rifle in the 1972 movie, Jeremiah Johnson.
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PublishedNovember 26, 2011
OUTDOORS: A hunt like no other
ALBION -- It was the opportunity every hunter wants. Late in the afternoon Nov. 12, a buck wandered onto an open field in Albion and paused below a nearby hunting blind.
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PublishedNovember 24, 2011
CAREY KISH: Trail-tested stuff for gear heads to check out
Now don't get me wrong, I'm right there with you, suffering along with the very same affliction. Try as I might to limit my indulgence for new gear in preparation for a recent European hike -- a two-week, 125-mile trek around Mont Blanc through France, Italy and Switzerland -- I came up short in the resolve department. That's right, despite really having all the gear I needed, I nonetheless ended up with a half-dozen new items in my pack. I should know better than to think otherwise.
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PublishedNovember 24, 2011
JOSH CHRISTIE: So many adventures await
Standing atop the old stone tower on the summit of Douglas Mountain this week, I was struck by the number of options before me. To the northwest I could spot a handful of Maine's western mountains, along with the ghost of Mount Washington in the distance. To the east, late-season kayakers paddled on Sebago Lake. Beyond Sebago, cars streamed to Portland and Maine's coast.
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PublishedNovember 24, 2011
SAM a personal mission for Trahan
AUGUSTA -- For 18 years one man became the face of Maine's biggest sportsmen's organizations. And that face was ever-present in the State House. Now the face of the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine, if new executive director David Trahan has his way, will be of children outside ice shacks, hunting in the woods and casting at youth-only ponds.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2011
OUTDOORS: Volunteers needed
Eric Roberts, president of Central Maine Snowmobile Club, knelt on a wooden bridge Sunday and swung a hammer.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2011
OUTDOORS: Fly fishermen hear the call of bamboo
SOUTH PORTLAND -- Bamboo fly rods run upward of $1,500 and $2,000. That's not the kind of cottage industry that would make it in a poor economy. Unless you're in Maine.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2011
HUNTING: Theories abound on peak rut dates
Peak rut. The phrase quickens the pace of every serious deer hunter. When word goes out that "it's on," it's time to drop everything and be in the woods. If we only knew what triggers it, we might be able to plan a little ahead.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2011
ALLEN AFIELD: Shooting deaths can be avoided
During the 1950s when hunters routinely wore black-and-red or black-and-green plaids, hunting fatalities took upwards to 19 lives per year in Maine alone -- a terrific carnage compared to today.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2011
OUTDOORS: IIt’s either feast or famine when it comes to deer herd
The stories statewide the past two years about the harsh winters of 2008 and 2009 and the toll those aberrations in weather took on the deer herd are starting to play out at tagging stations.
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