As much-needed rain finally fell on much of the state Wednesday, and more was predicted for Thursday, an obvious question likely began to dawn on Maine’s deer hunters: What will this mean to us come Saturday, the residents-only opening day of firearms season?
Also of interest? What are the deer doing now? Will they hunker down and refuse to move while some areas receive two to four inches of rain?
Nathan Bieber, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s new deer biologist, said deer are pretty resilient creatures, and a good dose of rain won’t affect them much.
“Unless it’s a torrential downpour, it’s not really going to impact deer activity,” Bieber said. “So I expect deer will be acting as they normally would.”
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