I’m hunting in northern Maine this coming week. Been watching youtube videos about Hal Blood’s big buck hunts.  Seems all hunters garments in Northern Maine look like legendary buck hunter Hal Blood in green plaid jackets with blaze orange tops. Ayuh.

Course, I wanted to be clothed like Hal, so I went on Amazon and looked fowah a green plaid hunting jacket. None to be found!

I bought a red plaid “Legendary” jacket instead and at a very good $83 price. Ayuh! You’d think I came from Baah Haabah or Millinocket, see. I was raised in southern New Hampshah. 

Nice and waahm. I just don’t need 50 degree weather like it was at the start of the firearm season. Truth is, I expect mornings are freezin’ and laytah in the day the sun will warm me up. Ayuh… 

But we will deal with that and “still” hunt without snow instead of snow trackin’ a buck. 

A dusting of snow is predicted a day before the hunt. And sunny for the week. Maybe, I’ll sun tan instead. No Kidding, In southern NH last week it hit 70 degrees.  

Now all I need is a buck to show up if I track these brutes. Odds are not with me but the hunt will be glorious in the Maine woods anyway. 

I’m bringing a few rifles, my Ruger Marlin SBL 45-70 and my Browning X bolt in 7mm Rem Mag. A shotgun for grouse, …case I get bored.

Seems, they are seeing lots of Coyotes too. Hmmm…

Instead of a backpack, which blocks 360 blaze orange I bought a fanny pack with shoulder straps so it does not hang to low on my fanny. In my older age, I don’t have much of a butt anyway. Ayuh.

I’m taking my son to hunt with me. And my Tacoma 4 wheel TRD for dirt roads. It was my trusty steed on my successful 2025 bear hunt along the west branch of the Penobscot river. Ayuh!

Dirt roads up theyah go for a hundred miles.

Did you hear about the Texan up here in Maine? He bragged that his truck took all day to cross his state. The Mainer replied, “I had a truck like that once too”. 

Good Huntin’ Ayuh!