New Hampshire works the same way. Youths don't get a license until they are 15 or 16 but can hunt with an adult with a license and get 1 gun between the two of them. I think that Maine's 10yr junior license isn't bad though. My dad was taking me out with him when I was 7 or 8. I didn't care too much about not being "hunting" just liked being out there doing what dad was doing.