Show Jt f r It j g in J Ift GREAT OUTDOORS OUTDOORS' By By Stan Taggart r ii e b County Co Wildlife and Rifle Association n n now w fias hh seventy members At According to tu nt plane plans this club on th the l new ew North Morgan w n a range site will wilt willbe willbe be overseen by the th County Re- Re creation ii hoard Men Alten the range 1 Is completed I th thi h h 1 Loan board Intends to turn Its It's ah BUI 11 i n over to the Rifle Association The Recreation U board hopes hope to have Its It's hurner hUMer safety trainIng training train train- ing program f program f youths youths Con con conducted ducted the Rifle As A. Instructor Inen Charles Charlee Price would supervise this course Senate DIU U il 1 known as u the Hunter Safety i aw aw an and passed sed sedLy by Ly the 1959 p J lalure requires that all first tin tit a hunters under the age of 21 bl bin pass a course e In hunT hunn- lafety training before they will be he allowed to purchase e a l f Bunting license Hunters ages 16 Ii 20 maybe may maybe maybe be excused from frow toe tae training provided provided pro pro- provided vided they no now possess a valid Utah hunting Ikse IL Lee Robertson Rob Rob- Robertson ertson in Ut Utah fish and Game Magazine i Marvin and Dun Dull Phillips and eon Bon really hau huu to beat the blush for tor the tike forty curly jackrabbits they shot near Snowville u a month ago We bagged or of em cm In that area rea last y year ar Don says S Utah has five basic species of rabbits lt They are the cottontail the tu white tailed led jackrabbit the black tailed black tailed jackrabbit the snowshoe snow snow- snowshoe shoe and the pica plea i The plea pica Is a sized mouse-sized rabbit that that lives among rocks at high elevations They're quite common In the High Uintah for J example I c Snowshoe rabbits as you know are are also strictly high country creatures creatures White tailed bite are are- the big white hares that we see here so often this time of year ear N e Re Recently making a u a five rive hour bour round trip to were Keith Carter Grant Francis Charles Price Irice and Explorer Explorers Scouts s outs Evan Parrish Jerry Dur- Dur Durrant rant Scott and Carl Harding Hunting about tour four hours hurs they killed 85 to to jackrabbits jack jackrabbits rabbits Chuck using a sighted scope Remington connect connected d 24 2 times in 90 shots Grant Grant- hit bit 26 20 of 76 rabbits with his scope bighted 30 OC Those speed high-speed bull bullets e t B wo would ld draw skin akin and quarter cm all at one time Chuck reports reports re re- re- re ports The l landowners out there thero seem glad to 10 see rabbit hunters Rabbit hunters bunters that is who conduct conduct con con- duct duet themselves properly t S SA A warning to all hoods thugs holdup men etc Dont try anything on n Douglas Mac Crouch Mac Is skilled In the theart theart theart art of disarming pistol and club wielders Using judo deception and his knowledge of action single action and automatic pistols Mac has developed developed developed de de- de- de an effective defense against close up weapons and weapons and the guys behind em m Como Come on down and Ill I'll show i J you you- ou some ducks clucks a u Clearfield r man invited Milo and C Coulum Heiner So th the spent thelast t the b blast last two evenings of of- of the hunt bunt hidden In a n cornfield out westI west vest I near the lakeshore lakeshore- And we sot got ten greenbe i both times reports Coulam But nut It was worth the tile trip Just to pee see to so man many ducks Flock after flock of em swooped jj down over i our decoys decos and into the corn corn- corn corn- Held field When Sheu they'd finally spot us some of em would actually collide col col- lide Ilde In th the air knocking one aile another another an an- other end eDd over end But they aiWa always always al al- Wa ways m managed to right themselves and fly OD on oo 5 S e eBruce e Bruce Tonk Alan Wright Ray nay Durrani Durrant and nd Kent Phillips Phillip have been gettin hundreds hundred of jackrabbits on their regular week end safaris to the Idaho border S S S Read In the biographies of some of our faultless aD ancestors ancestor celt tor arouses a wee bit of skepticism I Could It be that historians ians tans OV overlooked some of the char characteristics and of their forefathers Call CaU us commies com com- dies mies sick Ick or whatever but tut we find flud ourselves wondering U the whole tory story is 11 being told In a each case cage For example a line Une in the privately printed Founders Founder of City reads read Old timers r recall that our local boys boy bo were the finest marksmen ia fn tile the territory How we ask aak did iUd the gun gun It ley boys get gel so good Robbin Rob Rob- bin bank banki maybe Or u up saloons 81 Of Ot ort oft old I widows who couldn't pay the mortgages on their homes homes' I A shame we should hould read with I such a skeptical eye eyet t Better Detter w we should hould pass pa It by I And When n a book Innocently states that Those who knew our lovable able 01 old 1 Granny were Impressed hn by her constantly high her bel ready laugh and her cheerful ways well couldn't It just possibly be th that t ol of Granny ran a In Lizard and Gulch Gulch and barely drew drewa drewI a sober breath In her life lAnd Laud I Bakes no wonder she Bhe wa was ha happy 1 S e Here on page of ot Early Settlers of Gap we read that Despite storms floods wolves wol wol- yes ves and Indians brave courageous courage courage- OU ous Elvin G made the tho long grueling hike across the salt Mats flats We only hope that when we croak cronk WERE WE'RE so well of by future folk If the truth were known Elvin probably had Like maybe two or three hard rid In sheriffs sheriffs' posses down his neck fer ter Instance Good Slade Winslow the record re reo cord curd says was sheriff of Rat Hat villa for three thirty years heading headIng heading head head- ing a staff of seventeen deputies 7 Why so many of em To keep crooked Sheriff Winslow And to cover u IT for tor him when they failed tailed Rudolph Squires a an another n o 0 t th Ii e r I item reads read ran a very successful success success- ful ful trading post down near the I forks of Tick Creek I He loaded redskins with firewater firewater firewater fire fire- water we bet then bet then cheated em out of or their furs lurs S SWe We did some som research of our OUI own on the following statements and got the REAL facts Her grand kids wrote wrote that widowed Thrice Betsy DelBy gan raised her seventeen lovely children single handed If she wanted her kids to have havea a fathers father's guidance then why did the old gal dump strychnine in in her husbands husband's oyster stew According to his biography Nathanial after along a along along long exemplary life passed on In 1887 1827 Attached to the end of a rope we find Pioneer Terrence ferrence his Is family recalls was one of of the west's finest most talented musicians musicians musi- musi He knew two guitar chords In Pioneering History of Punk- Punk wood Pass we found the followIng following follow follow- ing Many a weary westward traveler was was heard to declare that Ma Ia biscuits were vere the the- best they'd ever tasted tast tast- j ed You suppose the fact that Mas Ma's nearest cook cookie III competitor lived two days' days ride across Desolate Flats Fiats had to todo todo todo do with the popularity of her vittles vittles vittles vit- vit S Enterprising settler S Simon I m o 0 n Schultz his ancestors write built up one of the finest cattle cattle- herds in the tho Rocky Mountains Only a man of Simons Simon's sterling character they add could cold hags ha ai performed such a teat feat Compared to cattle rustler Simon Schultz his surviving neighbors confide Butch Cassidy Cassidy Cassidy Cas- Cas sidy was as honest as the Lone Ranger Lucky Hank Thud a just pu putt II shed history says was one ue or ort of t the the- e canniest most most- successful prospectors in the annals of ot min ing lag wielding Spade Hank our research r rev reveals e v e a l Is s pockmarked Mother lother Natures Nature's pretty face while his wife and kids huddled together er in their cold shack and starved stare ed only strike strike iu In forty b a b rea kin Ing g. g callous band ing lug years years was was made when he dug up a Mexican coin In a wheatfield wheat wheat- field S M How many o o us have havEl scampered scampered scamp scamp- ered back up the family tree tree- tree tree- upon comia across a hoes boss theU down there In our ancestry Who doesn't t have bava lu iu their closets I Yup truth of the matter Is II those tholO early day folks folk were were probably probably pro pro- probably bably PEOPLE PEOPLE just Ju t like us ut But Dut what about modest shy bashful Joe Jones who rode with Bridget and Carson Car son helped drive the Gold Spike narrowly escaped E at the famous Little Big Horn massacre re and sin single handedly handedly o-handedly saved laved a nearby town fr from Dl Indian atta attack k Y Why WW we we cant can't find his name anyplace t L MORAL While the reat rest of ot the boys boy are around the potbelly potbelly pot pot- belly stoves and the pung Puns and poker oker tables experiences GET IN YOUR OWN TWO WORTH WORTH- OUt you pray may never be famous famous STAN |