Young hunters fill their tags for the first time on Youth Deer Day

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 24, 2020

Maine began staging Youth Deer Day in 2002 as a way to introduce more children to hunting. Each year junior hunters are given a day of their own to hunt, a week before the residents-only opening day of firearms season. Those hunters, who cannot have reached their 16th birthdays, must be accompanied by an adult supervisor, who is not allowed to carry a firearm or archery equipment on the hunt.