Jason Loblein

John Gibbs 

Jeremy T. Grant

Brett Ginn

My youngest son and I harvested this coyote chasing two does during rifle season. I will come back in a short time and write the story up.

Daniel Waite

Harvested these 2 Jakes while shooting a ReBoot promo was suppose to be our Veterans but we had to dropouts and I had to step in was a good day.

Brandon Schawe

My sons first buck second whitetail. It was a well executed hunt by Russ and Adrian the plan was to catch him coming back up in the morning to bed down on the ridge. It worked perfect rattled him into 80 yards than hit the bleat can and he walked out of the thick stuff to about 40 yards. Adrian shot was true the deer did not take a step. My son Adrian uses a Remington 700 xhr 30-06 uses 160 grain core locks.   

James first deer 8 years old! So proud of him he put in so much time and he wasn’t going to give up until the end! 

Was an awesome day busy as all get go story to follow during winter when it slows down lol. 

Adrian does it again 3 years in a row. Tell the story soon out trying to get James his first. 

My first buck with a bow a velvet 8 point opening morning of expanded archery it was hot and it the drag was not fun. But it was worth it was hunting with my good buddy Russ. 

20.8lbs 9 1/4 inch beard 1 inch right spur and 3/4 inch left spur. This was one of my favorite turkey hunt of all time we had a Tom hen'd up and I had an epic battle with her for over 30 min. until I finally got her into the spread. Hunting with my buddy Adam.

Youth day 2016 my oldest son Adrian 10 at the time shot doubles hunting with me and his uncle Matt I called in a group of 15 jakes and he shot on at 15 yards as it was flopping another turned and came and attacked it he shot that one as well. He was super pumped talked about it all summer. 

My very first bow harvest a beautiful doe I will never forget this hunt it was my farthest at 40 yards. Solo hunt

This is the heaviest turkey I ever harvest 22lbs Saywer farm in Canton Maine my second turkey ever and first Tom. Oh and it was the heaviest I have ever been as well lol.

I took this across the road in 2016 I roosted him the night before and I was done 10 min after legal shooting 20 yard shot. Solo hunt

My first turkey I ever harvested 2009 just back from Iraq Adrian was 4 years old and by my side. I went to LL bean my wife was a new employee part time and the guys from hunt and fish spent an hour or more teach me the very next week after practicing I got my first Jake.

Abraham Bradeen

My first whitetail after being out of service 2011 I struggled hunting western Maine bigger woods for about 2 years.

I actually got two birds in one day different locations was an awesome day!

Staff Pick

Jon 

The story will take me sometime still unpacking will get back to this but it was a hunt of a lifetime.

Adrian shot this 170 lb boar which is special because he is going for a grand slam this year. As well as it being a target bear all on video. Super proud of Adrian. we head out to zone 1 in three weeks. Here's the story we were not able to hunt youth day because Adrian is an athlete and had his first game Saturday evening. We planned on hunting Monday we went and baited Friday evening and we had 5 different bears on site that day all during legal hours. Blaze being slightly the smallest.  We patterned them all and probably could have taken anyone of them but we decided to take blaze. We have one that comes around 730pm that is well into the upper 300lb range he did not want to harvest him Adrian said we will save him for a Veteran and plus the 150-200 lbers taste better lol. We arrived at 2pm and I know we would bump the twin 200lbers and we did blaze comes in from 4-7pm we sat for 2 and a half hours and he came to barrel gave Adrian the green light he made an awesome shot hitting heart and lungs never made it 40 yards. No we have 4 Veteran coming to sit on our baits and than we are off to Moose.

Expanded Archery Maine I only got a out a couple days this year in expanded archery I shot this nice looking doe with my bowtech rpm 360 using G5 Deadmeats 100 grain. It was a 25 yard shot and she only went 40 yards. Bow hunting whitetail is my favorite.  

My oldest son Adrians first deer age 10 button I called him in off the swamp with a bleat can with 25 yards of us and Adrian made a quartering away shot on him at 40 yards. His rifle was a remington R25 .243 rounds used were Hornady Reduced recoil 87 grain.  Earlier in the season he missed a 120 inch class 8 pointer coming across the swale at about 120 yards and it was a lot of hrs on blind  before he got a shot at this guy but he was super happy. 

This was Adrian's third turkey first Tom. Him and my brother hunted hard all day on youth day to get on one they passed a group of jakes in the morning. For this one they did a spot and stalk crawled to higher ground and called them over and Adrian made a 40 yard  shot with his Remington 11-87 Sportsman Super Mag. 3in turkey load.

James struggled with shooting his new 20 gauge youth model Nova Benelli but he kept at it throughout the weeks leading to youth day. I was going to leave it up to him if he wanted to hunt or not his shooting had improved and I was confident he would make an ethical shot. He wanted to go so we went across the street within 10 min I had 3 Toms in front of us at 10 yards and James looks over at me and says can I shoot I said when your ready. Boom Turkey flopping gets up stands there and gobbles looking at the decoy I said James reload I told him to put the bead on the neck and he fired his second shot and it dropped. I have never seen a kid so excited or happy I couldn't of been more proud.    

had a couple hours in the afternoon went across the road in the same blind my youngest got his after 45 minutes of calling and silence he came out and gave me a 25 yard shot. 12 gauge Remington 11-87 sportsman super mag. 

My favorite turkey I ever harvested with a paint brush beard I actually got doubles that year.

A text book hunt with my buddy Adam we roosted the birds and took them this one a little bit under an hour to show up almost went out of range when a real hen showed up. I yelped with my mouth piece stopped him at 50 to gobble and took him.  19.1lbs 9 inch beard and 1 inch R spur and 3/4 L spur.

Adrian finally pulled the trigger after having multiple Toms and Jakes in front of him he took the shot. He was lacking a little confidence at the beginning of the season and did not take some shots he normally would on some real nice birds. I had a talk with him to see what was going on and he was afraid to miss because he is on such a roll since he started hunting the kid is really lights out. I told him nothing he could do would disappoint me and that you will learn more from your failures than your success  as long as you are ethical and do all you can to harvest the animal cleanly than I am ok with it. We started out today and he said to me on the way dad I am ready I said good because I am as well I have had three day off from turkey hunting and I am recharged. Within 30 min we had him at 15 yards in front of the decoy I did not say a word and he dropped it. Love this kid with all my heart he is truly on his way to being an exceptional outdoors man better than I ever thought of being.  

Adrian got a nice Tom the other day a week later after his first ever miss got revenge proud of him for not letting it get him down and getting it done!

My oldest son Adrian's first bear over bait.  I have shadowed bear hunters for a couple years now and this year my son wanted to harvest a bear, I was a willing participant. With the help of family and friends we got two active bear sites going and we had a tree stand and a ground blind. Well the ground blind bait had the most activity we sat on it for the first time and a big boar 250-300lbs came in and he was 3 steps away to being in Adrain's shooting lane and he winded us or something cause he turned and walked away.  I will tell you what having animal of that size beside you at 20 yards with your boy will give you an adrenaline rush like no other it was a crazy first experience for me. Three days later this beautiful 181lb boar came in 10 min before legal shooting and my boy took him at the barrel and he did not take a step. Adrian used his Remington 700 xhr 30-06, 160 grain core locks.      

Rachael

That one broken antler made him a dangerous deer 

Thanks John he was pumped his first harvest other than a turkey hope I can get him on some deer before the end of the season! 

There is nothing better than watching one of your children succeed, 

That's some real pride in his face.  Nice.   Were you  sitting with him?  

Yes sir it was our first year bear hunting. We had a bigger one come in a couple days before this one but no shot. We put a lot of hours in the blind on the bait. 

I bet you had the same look on your face.   Read my bear story.   I know the feeling .   Awesome that your doing all these hunts with you kids 

I sure did I was in shock something about sitting on the ground 20yards from the barell the bears look huge! 

Hey John can you upload previous year harvest or is it from when you join? 

You can upload harvests from any year - just change the 'date of harvest' when you register it. 

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Daniel Waite — turkey harvest

Adrian got a nice Tom the other day a week later after his first ever miss got revenge proud of him for not letting it get him down and get…

Harvested these 2 Jakes while shooting a ReBoot promo was suppose to be our Veterans but we had to dropouts and I had to step in was a good…

Daniel Waite — deer harvest

James first deer 8 years old! So proud of him he put in so much time and he wasn’t going to give up until the end!

Adrian does it again 3 years in a row. Tell the story soon out trying to get James his first.

Was an awesome day busy as all get go story to follow during winter when it slows down lol.

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Daniel Waite — bear harvest

Adrian shot this 170 lb boar which is special because he is going for a grand slam this year. As well as it being a target bear all on vide…

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