moving to maine/hunting (Caribou: buy, price, eat)

[Zymer]

Originally Posted by bigchuckie

Just think of it as a really big possum with horns. I have been to Texas and saw tons of dead possums

Try getting an armadillo out from between the dual wheels of a truck

[bigchuckie]

Originally Posted by Zymer

Try getting an armadillo out from between the dual wheels of a truck

Thud thud thud

[bigchuckie]

My Dad and brother both got Moose today My brother got his way up in the Allagash and my Dad got his down the airline

[starwalker]

Originally Posted by bigchuckie

My Dad and brother both got Moose today My brother got his way up in the Allagash and my Dad got his down the airline

congrats to both! I've had lots of game -- never had any I didn't like -- but have never tasted moose...

[Maine Writer]

Originally Posted by Elcarim

OMG! Warning please! Dead Animal Pics - BEWARE!! Guess I'll be staying out of this thread from now on.....

But Elcarim, you came to a hunting thread. Didn't you think there'd be pictures from successful hunts? I understand why it's sad to some but it's a fact of life in Maine. There are moose hanging in trees on the reservation a few miles from here. It's part of a production line during the sustenance hunt that lasts about a month. This week there are moose being transported in the backs of pickups and on trailers as hunters take them home or to the butcher. When the deer season opens they'll hanging while they age before being butchered. It's hard to avoid the realities of our way of life.

I'm a little jealous bigchuckie. Nice moose! I really want to be drawn and have my chance.

[dmyankee]

Originally Posted by Maine Writer

But Elcarim, you came to a hunting thread. Didn't you think there'd be pictures from successful hunts? I understand why it's sad to some but it's a fact of life in Maine. There are moose hanging in trees on the reservation a few miles from here. It's part of a production line during the sustenance hunt that lasts about a month. This week there are moose being transported in the backs of pickups and on trailers as hunters take them home or to the butcher. When the deer season opens they'll hanging while they age before being butchered. It's hard to avoid the realities of our way of life.

I'm a little jealous bigchuckie. Nice moose! I really want to be drawn and have my chance.

You are so right, a major industry up here!

[Submariner]

Taking our teenager in to the highschool early for drill team practice, I drive by the 'Trading Post', every morning this week they have had moose hanging being weighed and moose on trailers waiting to be hoisted up and weighed. [with the exception of Tuesday when the trading post is closed].

[dmyankee]

Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man

Northern Penobscot County has the biggest white tail deer in the whole world. It's the climate and the feed. If a fawn doesn't reach 70 to 80 pounds the first year they will not survive the winter. Therefore only the biggest deer get to reproduce. It's a self perpetuating natural condition. Fortunately we have the ideal natural food for deer so it all remains in balance.

The Alton woods, in particular, is known for it's atypical bucks!

[AlisonL]

Great moose hunt photos. Wish one of those would find its way into my freezer. Yum!!

[Northern Maine Land Man]

Maine is where you learn the answers to life's great mysteries; such as, "Why did the chicken cross the road?"









To prove to the porcupine it could be done.