Attending the Maine Moose Lottery has always been a dream of mine but the timing never seems to work out this year was particularly cruel. The drawing is always on a Thursday and I looked it up noting that it was scheduled for 16th of June. I was scheduled to be in Boston on business that day but not getting done until 5pm there was no way I could make it in time.
Well Thursday morning my business meeting fell apart opening a window so I hit the road for Cabela’s in Maine. I rolled into a virtual empty parking lot and discovered that at some point years of tradition was thrown away and the draw was moved to Saturday the 18th.
While recent moose permit lotteries have been staged on Thursday evenings, Cabela’s lobbied the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, which conducts the lottery, for a Saturday event that would be more easily targeted toward families and those who would travel to the event. Activities will begin at 10 a.m. this year and continue throughout the day. The actual drawing will begin at 4 p.m.
So once again I miss the draw…. I’m sitting in NC waiting for the results to get posted tonight like many other hopeful hunters. Maybe my luck will hold after all I have been drawn twice before…..but one of these days I’m going to make the lottery in person.
