So you have a Maine Moose permit...
 

First of all anyone that was lucky enough to get a draw Congrats to you all! Now I will show you a trailcam video just to get you all worked up.. This a Maine Moose I just got on my trailcam. I was trying to get a buck to come in. No luck with the bucks however.. Here is the video... Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiyJk-Mz9g0

Nice Maine Bull Phil! Been seeing lots of nice bulls this year..wont be long and the lucky permit holders will be headed to the woods!

Thanks! I have 5 different bulls show up on it so far.. Three of them are probably decent takers..

Nice site Mike and Dennis.

Any moose hunters scheduled for this season yet?

Good luck out there!


- Jay

Now I have Bull Moose number 6 walk by my trailcam. This one walks by 2 days after a cow had walked by it.. Although this could be the same moose that showed up close at night.. I do not think it is but, who knows..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFeyS...hannel&list=UL

Good Luck to those able to legally hunt!

I went 0 for 6 as a ME resident in the tags department.

Good looking critter. Any guesses on his weight Phil?

What time of night was he cruising by?


- Jay

I can not say for sure of course but I am guessing around 900lbs dressed as he is a big bull. The video is not all that clear which could be weak batteries or dew on the lense. Our nights up here has been cooling down pretty good creating a lot of fog.He is clearly a big guy though with the more narrow paddles. All these moose are traveling a trail that would be easy to get loaded on the trailer to haul out. I am hoping that I will draw another permit someday with what the trailcam has been showing me.

I checked my card it says 1:06 pm so I am thinking that perhaps I have the clock off by 12 hours as it is clearly dark.. So I am thinking it is 1:06 am.

I am going to revise my guess on the wieght after having him come in to better video. I am having a difficult time actually at trying to guess the wieght on this bruin. I look at his rack and think most likely 750 to 800lbs. Then however when I look at the size of his neck and he is still in velvet I am thinking at least 900 or better. I am also trying to figure out is his hump is almost non existent. This clearly places him up into the heavey wieght area. I figure where his neck and head meet it is about the size of a steering wheel. That has me guessing perhaps on the high side of things but I am going with 950 to 1000lbs dressed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47DcP...ature=youtu.be

I am heading up sept 21st with my friend who got a nonresident tag. He is from Maine and now lives in Mass, but he is no Mass-hole, and he scored a non resident permit. We are heading to his sister's in Camden for the first night, then saturday am we are heading up to the camp we will be using, it's 3 hours from Camden, and 30 miles on a logging road. He has a good group of local friends and relatives that will be helping him, and this group has always been successful. Last year they tagged out the first day by noon.

I am not the sub permittee, so I was hoping since we are there for a week to get a license and a bear permit and get a bear.

Congrats to your friend on getting drawn. Hope you guys have a great hunt. What District did he get picked for?

- Jay

Not sure but I think 6

What are the chances of out of state hunters getting a moose tag?My brother lives in Maine and I would love to harvest a moose.Thanks

Here it is not the easiest thing to get.. For an application it costs resdents $15 for 1 chance or bonus permit and nonresidents $15 for 1 chance or a bonus permit. Nonresidents can also perchase more chances that goes up to $55 for 10 chances or nonresidents can purchase multiple of 10 chances each..

If drawn a resident permit costs $55 while a nonresident costs $585 This after the purchase of a big game license at $25 for a resident and $114 for a nonresident..

Also there is an auction for up to 10 permits that help benefit the Youth Conservation Programs threw out the state. There is a $25 application fee for the permit bid. In 2012 the winning bids ranged from $9,760.00 to $11,234.56. I hope this helps.

I do think that a non resident permit would be easier to get though as less applying as well as you can purchase more chances.. Good Luck if you ever decide to apply..

Good luck on them tanks this year guys!

We got back at around 130 am from Maine. We hunted zone 5, basically about 80 miles east of Ashland. My friend (Mark) had the non resident permit, and a local friend of his (Norman) who is a fairly experienced Moose hunter was the sub permittee. We also had my friends brother inlaw (Roger) who work in the forestry field, and knew the area like the back of his hand. Roger has access to some pretty sophisticated mapping software and government and forestry stuff that we do not, and his photo maps proved invaluable, as well as his knowledge of when areas were cut. We arrived at camp on Saturday early afternoon and after setting up the camp, we headed off to scout. We put on about 150 miles in the truck scouting on saturday, and who knows how many on foot. On sunday it was more of the same, and we identified a couple of areas we though we should focus on. We saw numerous moose in the 6 days we were up there, final count was around 22. We also kept track of critters when we got camp till the time we left, and we saw tons of partridge and various other things. On monday morning we hit the area we rated as number one, and after sitting and calling for a couple of hours we move to location 1b. It was at 1b that we called in our first bull within 15 minutes of setting up. We were at a clear cut with a road running parallel to it, and the one running at 90 degrees to it. I glassed the long 90 degree road, while Roger and Norman (the moose expert) focused on the parallel road. About 15 minutes into calling I see a nice bull walk out of a clear-cut about 1000 yards down the road, and he came within 200 yards of us straight up that road like he was on a slot-track . Only problem was that where he stopped was on a plateau before a rise in the road, and we could only see the top of his chest up. After what seemed like minutes he turned into the woods to our right (we had the wind and he knew it) to circle around us and get some scent. He made it through the woods, and crossed the main road too quick for Mark or Norman to get a shot, and he never showed again. There were quite a few cows in this particular area, but there was no evidence that they were breeding yet. Over the next couple of days he made one appearance early in the am, pre shooting time and was gone again. Finally on thursday morning the cows were "blatting" and it was on. About 8am it quieted down a little and Norman hit the call few times. Again the bull came up the road, but this time he had a cow in hot pursuit of him. Also this time Norman and Mark had set up in the first clear-cut on the road closest to where the cows had been hanging around. This time the bull stopped on the road facing them, and when he didn't smell or see the cow he started to walk up the embankment into the clear-cut so they decided to take him. He dressed out at 804lbs, has 16 points and a 47 inch spread. This was Marks first big game animal so we had to coach him on field dressing, but he did a fantastic job, also note the rain gear for that part of the job. We used a rope and the truck to pull the moose onto an old pickup truck liner, then we used that to pull him 800 yards up to the trailer. We then used the truck to pull him onto the trailer. Biggest moose on the board at the check station was 1050 dressed, and average was 500 -800 lbs, they had checked in approximately 60 moose by 3pm thursday.