Take A Kid Hunting

By Robert Lane

Bob Lane is a Licensed Master Maine Guide and photographer. He has also guided Caribou Hunters and Fishermen on float trips in Southwest Alaska.

Deer season in Maine is a longstanding tradition marked by cold, frosty mornings, treks through the pre-dawn darkness to a coveted tree stand, a swamp’s edge, or a favorite stand of hardwoods in quest of the elusive whitetail. Lifelong friends share the camaraderie of hunting camp with stories of seasons past, traditional, hearty early morning breakfasts with strong coffee, and enough fat and cholesterol to fuel a skidder. Read more

George’s Bear

By A. Sayward Lamb

This story begins in November of 1966, when my two sons, Jim, Ron, and I, went deer hunting beside Route 26, in South Woodstock, Maine. At that time I had an old, four-cylinder Jeep, pick-up truck. We left it parked in front of the Union Church, now used as a community building, at Andrews turn, while we hunted a place we called: “Guysie’s Strip”. It did not take us very long to hunt out that area, and when we got back to the Jeep, we found a note attached to our windshield. It read: “George would like you to bring your truck up to the “Woody” Benson place”. It was simply signed: “Alta”. Read more

Spring Turkey Hunts

by
A. Sayward Lamb

The spring turkey hunts for my son Jim, and myself, ended with us both getting our turkeys, but the circumstances were quite different. When my wife and I arrived home from Florida, soon after the middle of April, we found two feet of snow on our camp road. We both knew it would be a few days before the snow melted, and the road dried up enough to enable us to drive our vehicle into our cottage, located eight tenths of a mile from the paved highway. Read more

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