Hunting in Maine 2010

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Bare facts on ages of bears harvested in 2009 Just in time for the start of this year’s bear hunt, bear hunters who voluntarily submitted a tooth from their bear in 2009 now can learn the age of the bear on the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s website.

The web address is http://maine.gov/ifw/hunting_trapping/hunting/bear.htm The Department received bear teeth from 971 hunters, which equates to 27 percent of the hunters who harvested a bear in 2009.

The oldest bear was a 25-year-old female, and the oldest male bear was 20 years old.

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Bears are long-lived animals, capable of surviving 30 years in the wild. Their survival increases as they mature. Nearly half of newborn cubs may die before reaching their first birthday, with starvation being a major cause of death. By the time bears in Maine reach 2 years of age their survival exceeds 90%, and nearly all deaths of adult bears are due to hunting or other manrelated causes.

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ike most hunted populations, older bears make up a smaller proportion of the harvest with just over one-third of the bears being three years old or older.

Knowing the age of the harvested

bears provides a valuable tool for monitoring the health of Maine’s black bear population, thus determining the effectiveness of our management programs and contributing to a stable bear population. The Department is

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continuing this research effort each year and is asking bear hunters to submit a tooth from the bear when it is registered.

Each check station will provide instructions for submitting a tooth. At the end of the year, MDIF&W will receive teeth from the check stations and will send the teeth to the lab. The ages for bears harvested during the 2010 season should be posted on the Department’s website next fall. Maine’s general black bear hunting season began Monday, Aug. 30 and runs through Nov. 27. The season for hunting black bears with dogs is Sept. 13-Oct. 29, and the season for hunting with bait is Aug. 30-Sept. 25.

Hunters are asked to consult their hunting law books for additional season information or visit the Department’s website.

“The Department thanks bear hunters, hunting guides, and registrations stations for volunteering to assist in this valuable research tool, and we encourage all bear hunters to consider taking part in this endeavor in the future,” said Jennifer Vashon, MDIF&W black bear biologist.

Feature Stories & Advertising, Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine, Saturday, September 18, 2010

From a hunter’s kitchen: Venison recipes

By Christina LeBlanc Freelance Writer

Venison jerky Combine the following ingredients and mix thoroughly:

If you’re looking for a new twist on traditional meatballs, sausage, or jerky, try using venison meat.

Local hunter Shane McMahon of West Gardiner shares his favorite recipes:

5 tbsp sugar 2tbsp soy sauce 2 tbsp red wine 2 tsp salt 1/4 tsp five-spice powder 1/8 tsp cinnamon Next, you’ll need to cut 3 lbs of venison into three-inch strips. Once the strips are cut, marinate them in the above mixture for 24 hours. Finally, bake the marinated strips at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 15-20 minutes (or until brown), turning once.

Venison Meatballs You’ll need: 1 lb ground venison 1/2 cup milk 2 medium eggs 2 tsp dried parsley 1 cup bread crumbs 1 tsp garlic powder 1/2 cup parmesan cheese Spaghetti sauce

Wild Turkey Supreme When searching for a unique wild game appetizer, nothing compares with the juicy white breast medallions of wild turkey. This recipe just isn’t the same with domestic. It’s great with wild birds.

1 cup flour

2 teaspoons parsley flakes

1/2 teaspoon fresh ground pepper

2-3 turkey breasts

3 teaspoons garlic powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons oregano

2 teaspoons basil Mix the above dry ingredients together in a large heavy-duty zip seal bag.

Slice the turkey breasts at an angle with the grain, into medallions that are approximately 1/2 to 3/4 on an inch thick. Put the medallions in the dry mixture and shake until covered with the seasonings. Melt some butter in a saucepan and, add the juice of half a lemon. Place the medallions in the pan and cook until completely white. If you brown the medallions, you have over cooked them. Serve the medallions with a side dish of honey mustard for dipping or your favorite game sauce. Recipe from Peggy Anne

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Directions: Start by beating the eggs and milk in a mixing bowl. Add breadcrumbs, cheese, parsley, and garlic powder and mix thoroughly. Add the ground venison and knead the mixture with your hands until it is well-blended. With your hands or a round scoop, form golf ball-sized meatballs from the mixture. Cook the meatballs until brown, and then place them in a pan of spaghetti sauce. Cover and simmer for roughly 60 minutes before serving.

There are also plenty of cookbooks available for hunters and meat-lovers to reference. Tim Gagnon of Brunswick recommends Eat Like A Wild Man: The Ultimate Game and Fish Cookbook, compiled by Rebecca Gray, which includes recipes for all seasons using venison, fish, bear, duck, and other game.

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National Hunting and Fishing Day is September 25, 2010.

A great tradition, source of pride since 1972 In the 1960s, hunters and anglers embraced the era’s heightened environmental awareness but were discouraged that many people didn’t understand the role that sportsmen played—and continue to play—in the conservation movement. In 1972, with urging from the National Shooting Sports Foundation, Congress unanimously authorized National Hunting and Fishing Day on the fourth Saturday of every September. On May 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon signed the first proclamation of the annual celebration.

• An average hunter spends $1,638 every year on the sport. • Teenage girls are the fastest growing market in sport shooting. • According to research, 72 percent more women are hunting with firearms today than just five years ago. And 50 percent more women are now target shooting. • Americans hunt 228 million days per year.

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HUNTING FACTS The contributions, in the form excise taxes paid on sporting firearms, ammunition and archery equipment, benefit every state and have generated approximately $5.6 billion for wildlife conservation since 1939.

The contribution for 2009 is a record — nearly $336 million, according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

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Hunting still a tradition for Mainers

By Christina LeBlanc Freelance Writer

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hane McMahon, of West Gardiner, har vested his first animal – a seven-point buck – at 12 years old. McMahon, now 56, and his brothers learned to hunt with their grandfather. “ H e k in d of to o k us un d e r his wing in the early stages,” McMahon said. “We spent a lot of time with our grandfather and we all took up the sport.”

Tim Gagnon, 40, of Brunswick, has also been hunting since childhood and learned from his father how to hunt deer, duck, geese, and other game. For these avid hunters, the sport is also about nature, peace, and building bonds.

McMahon classified two types of hunters: “There are hunters who go just for the meat and those who go for the sport.” He is the latter. “I take great solitude in being outdoors,” he said, “and I enjoy the sport of hunting much more than I do the killing of the animal… there’s a difference between hunting and killing, and some people never

learn that.” Part of the sport is matching wits with an animal that is at home in the woods. “It’s not easy,” he said, but it’s worth it. Also worth it is the chance to see the woods come alive.

“A lot of people out there have never seen the forest wake up in the morning,” Gagnon said.

“They’ve never seen it shut down at night.”

This connection with nature is a bonus of the sport. “It’s something unique that a lot of people have never heard of or taken advantage of,” noted Gagnon.

T h e s e d ay s , M c M a h o n a n d Gagnon are passing their knowledge on to new generations and continuing family traditions. “My hunting partner now is my grandson, who is 13,” McMahon said.

The duo hunt mostly white-tailed deer, occasionally moose, and even black bear in the fall, taking advantage of opp or tunities from nearby Wiscasset to New Brunswick, Canada. They’ve taken on the challenge of archery (bow

hunting, specif ically), which involves special skills, especially with the hunter being within 25 to 30 yards of the prey.

“I’ve learned much more as an archery hunter than I ever did with a firearm,” McMahon said.

Gagnon is an archery instructor for the L.L. Bean Discovery Center, where he teaches different groups how to target shoot with a bow.

McMahon encourages experienced hunters to teach younger generations the skills of the sport. “The earlier you learn, the more lasting those memories and experiences are as you grow older,” he said.

McMahon’s grandson would sit with him in the afternoons during hunting season by age four, and was trained in hunter’s safety by age 10. “They’re lifelong relationships you develop among hunters,” McMahon said.

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Shane McMahon with his grandson, Dylan, and Dylan’s first deer.

up entertainment,” he explained.

“I did it with my dad, I plan on doing it with my son, and for the past 10 years it’s just been about camaraderie with my buddies.”

For these Mainers, hunting is a game and a sport, but also an art, an instinct, and a way to connect with nature and loved ones.

It’s like a survival kit on wheels.

For Gagnon, the quality time is what it’s all about. “It’s time you can spend together that’s not in front of a TV or any kind of made-

2009 Maine deer harvest highlights 2009 marked the 24th season of the any-deer permit system. A total of 45,385 any-deer permits were allocated to 11 WMDs, including 2,241 Superpack (bonus) any-deer permits issued in WMDs 15, 17, 21, 22. 23, 25 and 29 to achieve district specific doe harvest quotas. Of the permits available, 6,995 were issued to qualifying landowners in an early, separate lottery.

Any-deer permits are WMD and hunter specific; they may be used during the regular firearms (October 31st-November 28th) and muzzleloader (November 30th -December 12 th) seasons.

Superpack licenses were allocated to 2.5 % of the any-deer permits in wildlife districts with 3,500 or more permits as “Bonus Deer” permits.

This allowed Superpack license holders to take two deer, one of which must be antlerless.

Although antlered buck s (3” minimum antler length) were legal quarry for all hunters during

Our expanded archery season targets locations in which deer populations are under-harvested primarily due to firearms discharge bans and residential sprawl.

legally take a doe or a fawn during these firearms seasons. Sundays were closed to all hunting and the opening Saturday of the regular firearms season was reserved for Maine residents only.

The expanded archery season had no limit on antlerless deer (either-sex) and ran for 79 hunting days (Sept. 12 th to Dec. 12 th); the statewide (Special) archery season from October 1st to October 30th.

Overall 18,092 deer were registered during 2009.

During the expanded and special archery seasons 1,813 were taken.

This equates to a minor decrease (2%) in archery hunting from 2008; the Youth Day harvest

all deer seasons, only hunters who possessed a valid any-deer or bonus permit license could

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Hunting trend: Archery on the rise

By Christina LeBlanc Freelance Writer / Photographer

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major recent trend in hunting is the rising popularity of archery. Tim Gagnon, of Brunswick, an avid hunter and an archery instructor for the L.L. Bean Discovery Center, explained why learning bow hunting skills is great for hunters.

“As a society, we’re getting more suburban areas and urban areas... the white-tailed deer can become nuisance animals, but you can’t hunt them with a gun in these areas,” he said. “You can with a bow. It’s quiet and your range is 30 yards; there’s no stray bullets going through neighborhoods or anything like that.”

According to the Maine Dept. of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, hunters who have a valid archery license will be able to purchase multiple expanded archery antlerless permits for $12 each, and one expanded archery antlered permit for $32. Permits must be in hand prior to the hunt.

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Aside from the practical advantages of bow hunting close to home, familiarizing yourself with archery can greatly extend your hunting season. “It’s a long season,” said Gagnon, “that runs from September almost right into December.”

As a working professional, Gagnon may get only eight days to utilize during gun season, but with the expanded archery season he may get nearly 40 days to hunt during the fall. The skills involved in bow hunting, specifically the short range required between hunter and prey, also offer an up-close encounter with the deer. “I like watching the deer,” Gagnon said. “It’s an added bonus of bow hunting.”

Hunters can find more information about the extended archery season and printable maps of the approved expanded zones for bow hunting in Lewiston, Auburn, and nearby areas at the website of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (http://maine.gov/ifw/).

primarily due to the prohibition on taking antlerless deer in bucks only WMDs. This rule change for Youth hunters occurred in WMDs that were most recently affected

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Aside from the practical advantages of bow hunting close to home, familiarizing yourself with archery can greatly extend your hunting season.

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For the third year a special license allowed crossbow hunting during the regular f irearms season with a harvest of 8 deer. Finally muzzleloaders experienced good

success with an increased harvest of 6%, taking 1,111 deer with muzzleloader.

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Doe quotas ranged from 0 in 18 WMDs (districts 1-14, 18, 19, 27, and 28), to 798 does in WMD 22; AnyDeer and Superpack permittees tagged 1,894 fawns, while archers and youth day hunters tagged 466 young of the year.

Overall, 6,924 antlerless deer were registered by hunters and the statewide adult doe harvest totaled 4,576 or 9% below preseason set quotas. The statewide harvest of antlered bucks (11,168) in 2009 was within 5% of our projected buck harvest.

The top 5 buckproducing WMDs (per sq. mi.) during 2009 were (in descending order) districts 29, 24, 21, 22 and 20, all in central and southern Maine. Among the 11,168 antlered bucks taken in 2009, roughly 4,914 (44%) were 1-½ yearolds (yearlings), while more than 3,462 (31%) were mature bucks (4-½ to 15-½ years old). Male fawns are reported with antlerless deer.

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Feature Stories & Advertising, Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine, Saturday, September 18, 2010

Crowing for geese

By John “K” Kittery Trading Post Crowing for what? I know this sounds corny, but hear me out.

September is the start of early goose season in Maine, and it also coincides with the crow season.

Being an avid hunter, I thoroughly enjoy hunting crows, but I have to admit that geese are a little better eating and equally as much fun to hunt, so why not combine the two?

If you’re going to hunt geese these days, it has to be done with non-toxic shot. That means steel, bismuth, or any of the other acceptable variants of tungsten or HEVI-Shot that you may choose to use. If you shoot geese with the “better” non-toxic loads, you are spending about $3 per shell. This may seem like a high price to pay, but a goose is a tough bird to knock down, and you probably want every advantage.

Crows, on the other hand, are not as difficult to put down and spending $3 per crow (provided you don’t

When you see or hear geese, take out your goose call and get ready.

miss) is a lot to pay in anybody’s book. So here’s a solution: shoot steel at the crows and steel and HEVI-Shot at the geese.

Just remember though, you cannot be in possession of an electronic call when goose hunting, so leave the electronic crow caller at home and stick to the mouth calls.

I usually handload my steel shot as I could not find a load that was fast enough to get the job done on geese unless I loaded it myself. The old saying “speed kills” is especially true for hunting with steel shot. You need the velocity for both the range and knockdown power, as steel is much lighter than lead or tungsten.

By handloading, I can get loads that hit 1600 fps, which is a screaming load& shy;—that is, up until now. This past May, Remington introduced its “Hypersonic Steel” load that is advertised to hit 1700 fps. This should be ideal for a combination crow/goose-hunting foray.

To start, set up your decoy spread in the fields just like you would for a normal goose hunt. Then set a dozen crow decoys off to the edge of the set, as crows will often feed in the same fields as geese.

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┬Н ┬Б ┬а┬Б┬И ┬Э ┬П ┬Р ┬Э ┬Р

┬Й┬К ┬а┬Р ┬Б ┬Р

┬н ┬А ┬Д ┬П ┬Б ┬Е ┬Б

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┬Б

┬Н ┬П я┐╜ ┬Э

┬Б ┬Б ┬Н

┬а ┬н ┬Б

┬Ъ ┬Ы ┬Ь┬Ю ┬А ┬Б ┬Б ┬Н

┬В ┬Э ┬Р ┬а┬а ┬а┬а ┬а

┬Я ┬Р┬Й┬Б ┬П

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┬Д ┬П я┐╜ ┬Н ┬П ┬Б

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┬Х ┬Б ┬Р ┬а┬а ┬А ┬Б ┬В ┬Г ┬Д ┬н┬Б ┬Д ┬П ┬Б ┬а ┬Б ┬Е ┬Э ┬Р ┬б ┬П ┬Б ┬А ┬Д ┬П ┬Б ┬Д┬Д ┬Б

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HUNTING IN MAINE

┬М┬П ┬а ┬н ┬П

┬н┬а ┬О ┬С ┬Б┬Б ┬Д ┬П

┬Б ┬Т ┬Б ┬а ┬Д ┬Б

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┬Д┬Д ┬Б ┬Й ┬Б ┬а ┬У ┬а┬а ┬н

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┬П ┬Б ┬Б ┬Д ┬Т ┬Р ┬а ┬н ┬А ┬а ┬А ┬н ┬Р ┬П ┬а ┬н ┬А ┬а ┬П

┬н┬а ┬З ┬Х ┬М ┬Б ┬Х ┬а ┬н ┬А ┬Ц ┬н ┬Ч ┬Р ┬а ┬Б

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Feature Stories & Advertising, Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine, Saturday, September 18, 2010