Show What's Doing inTHE in inTHE in in- inTHE THE GREAT r OUTDOORS Stan Taggart art By By This This native grew restless wee weel k last last and and drove up into Into In to too the high for the tho pr pro pro- y ye tin fine e c season deer hunt Saw some sarno plenty of hunters hunten The deer were scattered and laying up tip p in heavy timber The hunters were vero ero lounging around camp i ir r r road hunting Also Alao seen In that beautiful Blacks Black's Fork country were ere Ron Ran aid aad Don Trussell Bob Walters Lynn Lyna Mr and Mrs SlUr LooslI Mr Ir and Mrs DeOrr I pter Peterson terson on Mr and Mrs Fred Thurston 11 Mr r. r and Mrs Dud Bud Rhodes and Mr and Mrs Gall Allen We Just Juat went up there to seethe leethe see lee seethe the country says Don Saw half a dozen does doel and fawns fawn Tried a little there on the West Fork ork of Clacks Blacks Fork says ays Shirt Shirl did did spot two does aid 4 three fawns though and though and a aJ anice nice J ce buck on the way home We stayed In the Willys and made it a sightseeing tour says I I Gall Gail but ran Into a lot of deer at t that Jean Thurston brought omo ome the only venison I I Self-appointed Self guide g u Ide Don took his pals pala to a favorite favorite favorite lake take for the duck season opener First of all all It took him till 1 t am a.m. to find the thing growls an Irate member of the Ill fated party then then when It got light we discovered that the durn lake didn't have any water In It We never even saw sawa a lousy mud duck Kay Crittenden and Ken Blonquist Blon Blon- quist quiet both had bull only permits for the Salt Lake elk herd unit mill both got good shots at bulls buns and both flubbed Gene and Ward tees Kees bunted the same area but with either sex permits wound up with one thin bull bun between em Twenty-eight Twenty elk were killed on the Salt Lake Unit Includes upper FAst East Canyon out of ot the 60 permits that were Issued Last fall 2 32 22 were taken there Lyle Waldron hit a huge bull elk right Ight through the stomach out of Want Mantl I two weeks week ago It stood legged staggered staggered stag stag- then five other guys saw taw It It finished It off and andI I Claimed It That bull buH was a beauty Lyle Lylean says an would've weighed about la ia thou thousand x pounds Losing him was as hard to take tallo I II I Just about the time this compiler rom com of outdoor yarns had wa washed hed the la last t of ot the Blacks Black's Fork dust from his ears and the blisters on his feet were finally beginning to heal then along came caine the thereal thereal thereal real thing the statewide deer hunt Hordes of hunters hunters convoys convoys of hills cars cars hills full of horses horle blazing bonfires ranging bonfires ranging range Shooting fires shooting here shooting there there dead dead deer here dead hunters there Ive I've hunted two days of at it now shot 20 rounds at bucks killed nothing I Homer D. D and Albert Rich both got Deep Creek Seems to be quite a few of em up on that west side this year Leonard Florence went up back of his place In Porter Porter- vale Just saw a few We got but three bucks forthe for tor forthe the 13 of us complains Frank I Dohman Bohman Poorest hunting Ive I've ever er seen een on the west side sille of ol I Peterson here Well We'll have to hunt different territory next week eak weekend I end Med and Wayne C Crouch r 0 u c h brought a pair of nice bucks out of Lost Creeks Creek's Cottonwood Fork Hunting wasn't too good says 1 I Floyd Flod Green The dry weather has kept the deer deer high and scat scat- All I 1 saw first day was nine or OI ten does and fawns 1 I just killed a point 3 five minutes's minutes minutes' ago back ago back of the house here in Spring Hollow I 1 haven't even cleaned him yet Note to our many many Eastern readers We westerners count the points on just ONE o of the bucks buck's antlers We do not count the bruah brush tine Une the the small point near the antlers antler's base bue Wayne Dell Cell got his on opening morning In the head bead of Taggart Hollow It field dressed 26 pounds and had a inch 32 spread John Johnson says laYs hes he's not going hunting this fall Got my peg reg eg leg wet this sum lum summer summer lummer mer he explains Now Its It's started to sprout and sprout and Im I'm afraid I might get It snagged nagged In th the underbrush Claude Blaine Moore and Stoop Stephens Stephene hunted both east and west of Henefer saw Just a few does and fawns Bud Dud 0 CM vaid E al aid d pot got ot a three point near Henefer I Even lOven ven the ladles ladies ate are al e Edgel bagged god a beautiful beau 4 point in the hills bills west of Rich ille Irvin Robison saw half a aI I dozen dOlen does doel Saturday but didn't I hunt very hard Just went forthe for forthe forthe the ride Leo Jones Earl Darl Robison on and young Terry Helner each downed Hollow Hollow- four points in the the- Big DIg Devils Devil's Hollow vicinity Garl Howand How 1 Howard ard and and Morris Robison each got their bucks In Toone CanonI Canyon Canon I just happened to be In the right place at the right time says John Brimley who got a big four point over on the range It was the only one I saw saw saw-I I came came home early I IThe The Chas were recently recently re re- I Gently awarded a buckskin coat by a Salt Lake Sports Shop II Seems a certain deer hide of theirs was the largest one hand hand- I I led by the stores store's California I j tannery Ive never seen It so dry an and dusty dusty in my life lire reports leports Heber The horses sink Inthe in inthe I the dust just like it was snow lour Our bunch bunc got a pair of ot two points first day day but but both of at em were vere I thin had abscesses and smelled awful I 1 plan to get my buckskin this week Hebe continues If It I theres there's anything that gives me I satisfaction its outsmarting a big trout trout trout-or or a wise Is old buck I IKen I IKen I Ken an and Cevero Robison got I their their four points in Coal Coa Hollow iLee Lee Rollins shot a four point on onI I Smiths Smith's Durst Mountain range Glen Rollins killed a three point at the head of Cooper Lewis Frog Frog- ener brought down a four point at the head cf tf ft Dig Big I Hollow Hollo I Roes Hoe Dickson and Chuck Price I recently got a Canadian honker apiece Got em near Cokeville I Wyoming Besides the geese gene I the Morgan pair also allo brought home a bagful of ducks for good measure J Je e Cuss Carrigan i Lo Kojin tins Job liob Wallets Wallen Don Von Trussel and Don brought set selen en eu bucks out of Nor Norwood Norwood wood Canyon last week en end Don non was a five fire point goin gob on six Ix 4 Gamble Camble Williams WI took a Jeep Jeo ride rde up Arthurs Arthur's Fork of CI dabble abble and through Sheep Canon tan Can jon Iron on Saw does and fawns fawns ne neve e. e fired tired a a. slot shot neter er saw I. I it i so 10 o dry John and Bert on Newell Ball Dall Ed Hinds and Willis Wil II lis Packard went Into the head of Cottonwood Canyon found fou hunting conditions not very good Just Juat saw laW does doea and fawns fawn Ie I. I We e saw 45 elk or more moie though says Newell that that was 88 really a sight I Jack Jark Doer Coyer and Denn Denny Sargent saw lots Iota of at bucks In Lost Creek opening week end end big big ones oneil sized middle-sized ones small ones but ut are saving their tags for the tho last day ast day Its plenty dry and and nd dusty agrees Homer Francis Lon Stan George Franca and I allgot allgot all allgot got good bucks though Mine was a six point Lons Lon's a four I Weve seen quite a few tew deer but ut cont don't like to get em too early earlyn in n the season says Newt Toone Just wait walt till next week week week- STAN TAN I |