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Maine Moosing
One of the most coveted tags in the big-game-hunting world is a Maine moose permit. Check out the monster moose that Barbara Stuart bagged in Maine this fall.
One of the most coveted tags in the big-game-hunting world is a Maine moose permit. With an estimated statewide moose population of 29,000 and an annual allotment of about 3,000 permits (10 percent of which are reserved for nonresidents), Maine offers hunters a quality experience and success rates that recently have averaged more than 75 percent. That said, drawing a tag can be difficult, with applicants in the annual lottery numbering around 65,000. I have been lucky to participate in several Maine moose hunts, the first one in 2000 as a “sub-permittee.” (Permit applicants are allowed to designate a sub-permittee, and either of the two may shoot the moose.) That year I hunted with guide Jeff Charles during an early October snowstorm and took this nice bull, which had a 51-inch spread and weighed 886 pounds dressed. AdvertisementRelated PhotosSUBMIT YOUR PHOTOSADVERTISEMENT |
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mainers have the option of quatering their moose or presenting it whole for registration, lucky guys, real lucky.....here in NB, its LAW that the carcass must be presented whole to be registered.It can sometimes take up to 8 hours(or more) of chainsaw and "comealong" work to get a big bull outta a swamp or cutover in 1 piece.Plus our season is a few weeks earlier and it sometimes is warm and the extra time it takes to get a moose out whole can be long enough for the meat to spoil on warmer september days.
Nice Moose, makes my mouth water, just thinking about it. A friend gave me some moose meat last week from his hunt in eastern Canada. I could live on that stuff. Maybe one day...
great job! i just learned the feeling of taking my first moose. congratulations its quite a thril
It's great to see a Maine moose story here. I was lucky enough to finally get drawn last year and the whole experience was awesome. Congrats to all the lucky permit holders!
I have never been to Maine and never been moose hunting either. Going to Maine and taking down a good moose would be awesome.
Nice to see that Maine gets noticed once in a while. I have yet to put in for a moose permit maybe in the near future it's a possibility.
Yoda, if you draw want can I come up and be your backup to help you get it out. Won't charge much just a little bit of meat, maybe 100# or so? ;-D
Yoda, that was supposed to read
if you draw one, can I come up and be your backup to help you get it out. Won't charge much just a little bit of meat, maybe 100# or so? ;-D
I must be tired and having brain farts that are keeping my fingers from typing what I am thinking.
lol, the prospect of some tasty moose venision will do that to a man Bo.
People talk about the intensity of buck fever,but after having a 1000b bull come into archery range, whitetail bucks just dont phaze you the same afterwards....
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mainers have the option of quatering their moose or presenting it whole for registration, lucky guys, real lucky.....here in NB, its LAW that the carcass must be presented whole to be registered.It can sometimes take up to 8 hours(or more) of chainsaw and "comealong" work to get a big bull outta a swamp or cutover in 1 piece.Plus our season is a few weeks earlier and it sometimes is warm and the extra time it takes to get a moose out whole can be long enough for the meat to spoil on warmer september days.
Nice Moose, makes my mouth water, just thinking about it. A friend gave me some moose meat last week from his hunt in eastern Canada. I could live on that stuff. Maybe one day...
great job! i just learned the feeling of taking my first moose. congratulations its quite a thril
It's great to see a Maine moose story here. I was lucky enough to finally get drawn last year and the whole experience was awesome. Congrats to all the lucky permit holders!
I have never been to Maine and never been moose hunting either. Going to Maine and taking down a good moose would be awesome.
Nice to see that Maine gets noticed once in a while. I have yet to put in for a moose permit maybe in the near future it's a possibility.
Yoda, that was supposed to read
if you draw one, can I come up and be your backup to help you get it out. Won't charge much just a little bit of meat, maybe 100# or so? ;-D
I must be tired and having brain farts that are keeping my fingers from typing what I am thinking.
lol, the prospect of some tasty moose venision will do that to a man Bo.
People talk about the intensity of buck fever,but after having a 1000b bull come into archery range, whitetail bucks just dont phaze you the same afterwards....
Yoda, if you draw want can I come up and be your backup to help you get it out. Won't charge much just a little bit of meat, maybe 100# or so? ;-D
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