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It's only 1 day.. why is that such a bad thing? Feel like you're being kept out of a really good Black Friday sale at Macy's?
The residents get to shoot all the stupid deer which creates a definite problem for me. I like an opportunity at the dumb ones also.
Paying 5 times as much for a license as they do, I think I deserve that. I also used to enter the drawings for moose permits and
give the economy a boost. The sign on Int. 95 should be changed to say, "Welcome To Maine, Now Go Home."
BTW, I lived in Houlton and Monticello for years.
Not sure if you are serious......The residents get to shoot all the stupid deer which creates a definite problem for me. I like an opportunity at the dumb ones also.
Paying 5 times as much for a license as they do, I think I deserve that. I also used to enter the drawings for moose permits and
give the economy a boost. The sign on Int. 95 should be changed to say, "Welcome To Maine, Now Go Home."
BTW, I lived in Houlton and Monticello for years.
Not sure if you are serious......
I guess what I was syaing was that if you want to whack the dumbest deer you can, why bother? Go to Hannafords and buy a much better (and cheaper) tasting steak.
I was born in Northern Maine. I have hunted there since a kid. In Aroostook County there are not a lot of deer, but, there are some pretty big ones. Up along route 11 heading towards Ashland and Portage there are a lot of old hunting camps for sale for really short money. This is because, in my opinion, Maine refuses to allow Sunday hunting. It is around an 8 hour drive to get there. If you drove all night Friday, you could hunt only Saturday. I think if the hunters had the option of hunting Sunday morning before heading home, there would be a lot more people willing to hunt up there. This would drive up the prices on these old camps. I know that the folks in Maine depend on out of state license fees to help there wildlife. If they had more hunters from out of state they would in turn have more income. I also think that if the prices went up on these camps, the locals couldn't afford them anymore. So I think, maybe it's not so much the state wanting no hunting on Sundays as it is the local population keeping it out of bounds.
I've hunted a lot of states and several countries, but, I miss hunting Maine in the fall. Maybe it's all the uncles and cousins that I used to hunt with that I miss more, I don't know. The Uncles are all gone now and most of the cousins have spread out around the countryside. Maybe I just miss being a kid and wandering around in the woods with a gun and just about crapping my pants when I saw a deer. Maybe you really can't go home again.
Sorry for the rant.
Sunday hunting:
The wildlife biologists base the # of doe permits on projected kill. Add Sundays and you will, at the very least, signifigantly drop the number of doe permits. Probably doesn't matter to a lot of hunters from away, as they might probably be after antlers anyways. But locals appreciate a full freezer (spare me any anecdotes about old time locals poaching to keep the freezer full).
They might even shorten the season. It's a balancing act.
also @deadhead.. I'm not trying to be a dick.. but after I re-read what I wrote I can see how it might be read that way.. I'm just being smart-ass funny.. (well trying to anyways..)
TBH if you did decide to come up and hunt Maine I'd love to have someone to hunt with as I am doing it pretty much on my own for the first time up here and, honestly I'm having some apprehension..