After watching every episode of this, I have to say I believe it's real.Which is rare for Animal Planet.While it may be real, all the crimes are truly ridiculous.Almost once an episode someone gets busted for announcing they poached animals on Facebook,too funny.There's a constant stream of night hunters, road hunters, felons with guns, missing people and drunk guys on snowmobiles.They are now apparently known as snow machines, which sounds like they would make snow.There have even been multiple times when people in vehicles ran over animals and then backed up and ran them over again.Which leads us to believe that people in Maine are really weird.This is definitely a show you should watch.If only for the fact that it's silly to get busted by a game warden.