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Complimentary Licence — the Widest Bundle in This Corpus

At 50%, one complimentary licence bundles fishing, hunting, trapping, archery, muzzleloader, bear, migratory bird, pheasant, turkey and crossbow — for life, while residency holds.

Verified August 20, 2026

What this benefit is

At 50%, one complimentary licence bundles fishing, hunting, trapping, archery, muzzleloader, bear, migratory bird, pheasant, turkey and crossbow — for life, while residency holds.

What it's worth: Fishing, hunting, trapping, archery, muzzleloader, bear, migratory bird, pheasant, turkey and crossbow — one licence, no fee, for life

  • Validity is lifetime while the residency requirement continues to be met.

Who is entitled to it

  • Your service-connected rating meets the gate.
  • You are a resident of this state.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

  1. 1Apply through the Bureau of Veterans’ Services, which verifies the 50%+ rating against VA records — the wildlife department is not the door.
  2. 2Claim the whole bundle: the licence carries the permits most states sell separately, including bear, turkey and the expanded archery antlerless permits.
  3. 3Nonresidents can hold it too, where their own state has a reciprocal agreement in place — ask the Bureau which agreements are current rather than assuming yours is on the list.
Form
Disabled veteran licence application
File with
The Bureau of Maine Veterans' Services — not IFW
Documents you will need
va benefit summary letter
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
Worth knowingThis is the widest single-licence bundle in this corpus — permits that cost separate money in every other covered state (bear, turkey, muzzleloader, expanded archery) ride inside it.
Worth knowingThe reciprocity clause is unusual in the other direction too: a 50%+ Maine veteran should ask the reciprocal states what they extend in return.

Sources

Why only one source type: The Bureau's own page states the 50% gate, the bundle, the lifetime validity and the reciprocal-state route in terms.

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