Mainer bags his first buck at 40

Mainer bags his first buck at 40

Many Mainers grow up hunting with their families, but just as many discover the sport later in life. That was the case for Jake Sparrow of Whitefield, who shot his first buck at age 40 in WMD 22, Kennebec County, on Wednesday afternoon. The deer weighed 224 pounds. Sparrow started hunting about 15 years ago. His father didn’t hunt, but he became interested in his early 20s because many of his friends were. Last year he shot his first deer, a doe…