Re: “Hunting: Focus on antler restrictions might miss greater point” (Jan. 3):
Although everyone who enters Maine’s woods in search of the elusive whitetail hopes to bag a trophy buck, most are just as happy to get a spike horn. Meat in the freezer is still more important to the majority of hunters in Maine than a rack on the wall.
The Maine woods are already managed to limit the taking of does in areas where the herd has been reduced by predation and changed habitat.
To have further antler restrictions is an unreasonable game management approach. It pits more affluent trophy hunters against poorer subsistence hunters at a time of economic challenge throughout the state.
I submit that the reason the guides are seeing fewer out-of-state customers is much-improved hunting conditions in other Eastern states and the lack of Sunday hunting, which is afforded elsewhere. Let’s leave well enough alone.
Lew Kingsbury
Pittston
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