Deer Hunts

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Community Links are posted on our Lodging/Contact page

Bow-Hunts

We offer special rates for fall bow-hunters. Bow-hunting runs through the month of October. Bow-hunting around the old farms is awesome. The deer graze on beechnuts and the fallen apples from the trees that grow on the old farmsteads to fatten themselves for the fall rutting season. While you are perched in your tree stand with your bow, there is nothing like hearing the sound of a deer walking through the leaves that blanket the forest floor. During October you may also hunt ruffed grouse and snowshoe hare.

Archery: October 2, 2008 thru Oct. 31, 2008

Non Resident License Fee: Archery Hunting (16 & older) $62.00 plus agent fee

Rifle Hunts

On a frosty October morning, the views here in St. Francis are breath-taking.

Fully Guided Hunts: $850.00 per week

Semi Guided Hunts: $500.00 per week

Non-Guided or Non-Hunting Guests: $375.00 per week
Children 10 years and under stay free. 50 % non-refundable deposit will hold your reservation.
Prices include lodging & meals. Prices do not include sales tax or license fees.

Here in Northern Maine, we usually have good tracking snow during the November rifle hunt.

Remember to pack your warmest outdoor clothes.

Here in the Saint John River area, the deer are under low hunting pressure. With thousands of acres of clearcuts, swamps and mountains, the ratio of habitat to deer population is very high.

We offer a true wilderness hunt; no corn piles or salt licks are allowed here in Maine. Generations of local hunters have passed along a love of hunting to their children. They taught them to know the habits of the animals and to respect them; they did not kill for sport...but for survival. At Bran Lake Guide Service, just as at most of the local guide services and lodges, this tradition lives on.

Jody Jr with his first doe taken on Youth Day-October 20, 2007 Jody Jr poses proudly with Scott and Dad

The rut generally occurs in the middle of the month of November, and this makes the deer more elusive, but also more vulnerable to lures and calls.

The monster buck is alive and well here in the True Maine. He is cunning and adept at eluding most hunters, but someday you may be the one to outsmart him.

Firearms Season: November 3, 2008 thru November 29, 2008 **allows use of bow & arrow, crossbows, firearms or muzzleloaders**

Non Resident License Fee: Big Game Hunting License (16 & older) $102.00 plus agent fee

$2.00 agent fee is charged where-ever you buy your license. Hunting license fees are set and collected by The State of Maine, not by your guide.

Crossbow Hunting License $48 customers must submit proof of having successfully completed an archery hunting education course and a crossbow hunting course or satisfactory evidence of having previously held adult archery and crossbow hunting licenses in this State or any other state, province or country in any year after 1979. When proof or evidence cannot be provided the applicant may substitute a signed affidavit. With a valid crossbow hunting license, a person may hunt deer with a crossbow during the open firearm season on deer. The crossbow hunting license may not be used to hunt deer during the archery season, muzzleloading season, or expanded archery season.

Even though you only have one week of Muzzleloading season here in Maine, this can be your most productive week of hunting ever. The deer are mostly finished with the rut and the snow is piling up. The deer are beginning to bunch up in their winter yarding areas. Many of the local hunters count on this last week to fill their tags for the season.

Hunters, fishermen, campers, and day visitors entering the North Maine Woods must pay a use fee at one of the local checkpoints. http://www.northmainewoods.org/rates.html