Monday marked the opening day of the bull-only moose hunt season in Maine, which runs through Saturday.

For many hunters, this highly anticipated opportunity is years in the making, and several were fortunate to claim success on the very first day.

One of the first to bag a moose was Caleb Lewis, who guided his father Jonathan and brother Jared in Zone 1. Within just 30 minutes of the season’s opening, Jonathan and Jared shot a bull with distinctive palmation. This was his brother’s first moose, and his father’s second. Lewis suspects the moose, which had a missing eye, had likely been injured in a fight with another bull earlier in the month.

The successful hunt took place in a remote area, deep in an old harvest near the edge of a bog. Despite being 500 yards from the nearest road, th

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