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Show Deer Takes for '58 Second Highest In State's Count Utah deer hunters harvested 117,241 animals during the 1958 - hunting' seasons, according to recently compiled data from department de-partment of fish and game offices. of-fices. This figure represents, the second highest deer harvest on record for the Beehive state. Highest recorded harvest figure fig-ure was attained in 1956 when hunters took 122,585 animals. Percentage of hunter success Ion the regular license hunt was 64, with success using one deer special permits showing 78 and two deer special permit per-mit success of 144, based on 200 maximum. Total kill records, incUiding all deer hunts, list of 61 buck and 39 antlerless harvest during dur-ing the 1958 seasons. The figures show that 152,-365 152,-365 hunters were properly licensed li-censed to hunt deer, either through the purchase of a big game or a combination hunting hunt-ing and fishing license. Of this number 10,814 did not hunt, leaving 141,551 regular license licen-se holders afield during the season. This represents an increase in-crease in number of hunters afield of 8,754 as compared to 1957. |