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Show Duck Shooters Face Cut in Limit This Fall Phone colls and inquiries pouring pour-ing into the state fish and game department indicate that a good many nimrods failed to read the 1946 regulations regarding waterfowl, wa-terfowl, Randall Turpin, in charge of game management reports. re-ports. Turpin reminds hunters that the daily bag limit on ducks has been reduced from 10 to 7 this season, and that the limit en geese is two honkers and two ..Mirsjy yetesn iot-a. .total, at. four.. GRAhr geese may be snow geiaS, but a hunter may never have more than two honkers. Daily bag limit and possession limit on geese remains at four, but for ducks, a two-day bag limit in possession is permissible. No wood ducks are allowed to be taken. Shooting will commence 30 minutes before sunrise and 30 minutes before sunset on Oct. 26. Because of the difference of sunrise and sunset in various areas and states, a table will be worked out for Utah hunters, and published in the near future. Lee Kay, director of education in the fish and game department", offers aip to hunters who may swing over to Wyoming and Idaho Ida-ho for shooting. These states forbid the shooting of any white birds, in order to protect the rapidly diminishing swan family. fam-ily. For the benefit of Utah hunters, Kay points out that snow geese may be distinguished distinguish-ed from the protected whistling swan by remembering that the whistlers are pure white, where the snow geese have wings tipped tip-ped in black. |