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Show Utah's deer hunt opens Saturday Last minute preparations are now under way for the annual deer hunt. An estimated 170,-000 170,-000 hunters will go afield this year after deer. Many of these will be first-time or inexperienced inexper-ienced hunters who may find that they left some important items home and failed to prepare pre-pare fully for their hunting trip. Proper preparation for the deer hunt should include: chains, shovels, antifreeze and extra fuel for vehicles; a safe rifle, properly sigh ted-in; warm clothing, footgear and conspicuous conspic-uous clothing of the proper color; col-or; equipment for the proper care of game; arrangements with a butcher or locker plant to cool, age and cut up your venison; and a good knowledge of the laws governing the deer hunt. Also, don't forget a piece of string for your deer tag. A booklet that should be of interest to experienced and inexperienced in-experienced hunters alike is available from Fish and Game Division offices. The booklet is entitled, "Venison Field Care and Cooking." It includes methods meth-ods of proper care for deer in the field as well as hints and recipes for cooking venison. The booklet is free of charge. Observe the law I Fish and Game law enforcement enforce-ment officials urge all deer hunters going afield this Saturday Sat-urday to observe the laws and respect the rights of others. Each year several arrests are made during the deer hunt for violations of the deer proclamation. proc-lamation. Most frequent violations viola-tions are: carrying a loaded firearm in a vehicle, failure to tag the deer, failure to properly prop-erly validate the tag by cutting cut-ting out the proper dates and sex, and improper use of license li-cense or permit. A new law, introduced last year, makes it unlawful lor any person to throw or cast the rays of any spotlight or other artificial light upon any game animal while having in his possesson any firearm or other weapon whereby the animal ani-mal could be killed. Hunters should obtain a proclamation pro-clamation and read it carefully before going afield. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Don't lose your license Sprotsmen who ignore "No Trespassing" signs this falf may lose their hunting aind fishing privileges for a year. Under provisions of a new law passed by the last Legislature, Legis-lature, persons convicted of trespassing shall have their license li-cense revoked for the period of a year. In addition, the minimum min-imum fine for this offense is $50.00. Don't lose your fishinig or hunting privileges; obtain permission per-mission before you enter private pri-vate property and observe all posted areas. The sportsman is the real loser when private lands are closed to hunting or fishing. Be sure of your ta.rget Each year the deer hunt is marred by one of two serious hunting accidents. Such accidents acci-dents are generally the result of failure to observe the laws governing the deer hunt. Others are caused by carelessness and improper gun handling. In addition to the accidents caused by hunters, the "accidental" "acci-dental" killing of elk and moose during the deer hunt is alarming. An estimated 200 elk are killed illegally each deer season. Many of these animals could be saved and hunter accidents ac-cidents reduced if the deer hunter was sure of his target. This deer season take the time to properly identify your target, and make a clean kill. Don't mar your hunting trip by causing an accident. Buckskin ret work "Tell someone where you are going" is the message to deer hunters from law enforcement officials this fall. Each year hunters in the field must be located lo-cated to deliver an emergency message. Knowing your approximate approx-imate location makes the job a little easier for law enforcement enforce-ment personnel. |