medrhunter
Well-known member
Goose egg for my group too
Right there with you with a few more years under my belt.Oh’fer going on twenty years now.
I believe the reason why the NR permits are cut short is those are the tags they sell to the Maine GuidesAnybody?
FYI: Non-Residents only got 4.5 % of the Sep Bull hunts, not the 8% they should have gotten
But they got 10% of the cow hunts and 9.4% of the Oct Bull hunts.
In total, only 43 NR got a Sep hunt. Should have been 76 according to the info IFW gave me before the drawing.
Thats when the NR permits went from 10% down to 8% (2 years ago I think)I believe the reason why the NR permits are cut short is those are the tags they sell to the Maine Guides
The guides pay 1000-1500 bucks and then sell them to NR hunters for $15,000+
They dont take any out of the Maine resident allocations for guide tags.
Yes, that's about 60 permits out of the 310 permits the non residents get.Thats when the NR permits went from 10% down to 8% (2 years ago I think)
Those came out of the 2% reduction.
Probably gave the sporting camps the Sept permits.Here's how it broke down for NR.
NR got screwed for Sept season
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I think that explains it.Probably gave the sporting camps the Sept permits.
Do ya think? What about all the lodges in 7-8-9? There isn’t even a sept season, so I would assume if a lodge got drawn in 8, they would get an 8 bull Oct as there is no sept season. They aren’t giving Lodge permits outside their zones are they? That alone I think would help the distribution of the 2% to be more oct based or at least help it be a split. Just thinking out loud.I think that explains it.
Good points for sure. Sometimes I think The Dept wants us to be so confused that we’ll stop asking questionsDo ya think? What about all the lodges in 7-8-9? There isn’t even a sept season, so I would assume if a lodge got drawn in 8, they would get an 8 bull Oct as there is no sept season. They aren’t giving Lodge permits outside their zones are they? That alone I think would help the distribution of the 2% to be more oct based or at least help it be a split. Just thinking out loud.
A guy made a comment to me 3 years ago......."we never get considerable snow fall until all the bogs and swamps are full". Well I've been paying attention the last few Novembers and I'll be a SOB but it's been true. Could it be coincidence ? Sure....... but we've had early snow the last 3 years and the bogs and swamps were full as hell before it came in.I wonder if this drought continues if it will impact the moose and their locations during the hunt. It will probably come around, but bog holes and swamps are dry as a popcorn fart right now.