Any-deer permit application deadline approaches
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is now accepting applications for the 2013 any-deer (Antlerless) permit lottery.
Paper applications must be postmarked by July 26. Online applications are due by 11:59 p.m. on Aug. 15 and can be found by visiting the department’s website www.mefishwildlife.com.
Residents applying to hunt on their own land without a license and applicants with a legal residence outside the U.S. or Canada must use the paper application and may not apply for an any-deer permit online.
It is free to apply for the any-deer permit lottery. The lottery drawing will be held on Sept. 9 and results will be posted on the department’s website after 2 p.m.
A total of 46,710 any-deer permits will be issued in these 16 wildlife management districts: 3, 6, 7, 12, 13, 15-17, 20-26 and 29. It is bucks-only in all other wildlife management districts.
Deer hunting season (firearms) begins with youth deer hunting day on Oct. 26. Youth hunters may take a buck statewide or an antlerless deer only in the wildlife management districts where any-deer permits will be issued this fall. Maine resident-only day will be held on Nov. 2.
Deer hunting season (firearms) runs from Nov. 4 to Nov. 30.
