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Show Utah Deer Hunters Get Few Animals Statewide reports covering the opening weekend of Utah's general gen-eral deer season show that the "buckskin getting the breaks" throughout many of the state's major herd areas. Rain, snow and muddy roads limited both success and pleasure pleas-ure for a big share of the estimated esti-mated 150,000 hunters afield, the department of fish and game reported. The department said several herd units in the north half of the state were yielding the best hunter success, though spotty storms in some of these sections had made the going rough as had heavier storms in most mountain , ranges to the south. As predicted earier, hunters were finding the deer well scattered scat-tered from the lower elevation juniper benches to timber line in the high country. One result of the adverse hunting hunt-ing conditions during the early season is a probable reduced deer harvest in contrast to the heavy take that had been expected. ex-pected. Records show nearly half the animals taken each year are killed during the opening weekend of the season. Game managers were hoping for good weather during the second sec-ond week end of the general season sea-son which ends over much of the state on October 29. They predicted good hunter success for those unsuccessful hunters going afield if the current storm period passes in time to make access and hunting possible in much of the mountain country now inaccessible to travel. Hunters were reminded also that the regular license and tag may be used during extended seasons in all or part of eleven deer herd units. They should save that unused tag if they intend in-tend to go afield during the later hunts. All the areas where extended ex-tended seasons are set may be checked in the 1957 deer proclamation proc-lamation under the item listed "Extended Seasons." o |