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Show Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happi. ness. It has no taste. Mr3 Gaskell. Permit cards must be properly pro-perly filled in and placed in the maii within ten days following the end of the elk season whether the holder did or did Elk hunters now afield in Utah; average success is expected not bag an nimal. Elk, as with other big game, must be tagged immediately after the kill. The permit card must be carried by the hunter at all times when afield. It is not transferable, and no one but permit holders may carry a gun of any kind during the elk season. This includes side arms. Legal rifle calibres are listed in the proclamation, but in any case the rifle must be the equivalent of those listed, with a minimum, of 1,700 foot pounds of energy at 100 yards. The department again reminded re-minded that the fire hazard is still extreme over mountain ranges and urged all permit holders to use every precaution precau-tion with fire of any kind. A majority of Utah's elk hunters began their season Saturday, Sept. 24, when 1665 gunners holding these permits went abield in eleven hunting units. . These eleven hunting units are the Daggett, Vernal, White-rocks, White-rocks, Cache-Cache Co. -Rich Co., Cache-Cache Co., Cache-Rich Cache-Rich Co., Indian Peaks, Manti, Nebo, North Ogden River, and Salt Lake. Late season elk hunts are set for the Brown's Park-Three Corners unit Oct. 1-Nov. 13, and Nov. 19-28 on the Cedar Mt., Fish Lake, Heaston and Ogden River units. Department of fish and game spokesmen said today that an average elk hunter success is expected this year, with herd numbers over the state at about the same level as a year ago. Hunters were advised to go properly prepared with the necessary ne-cessary equipment to handle these large animals and to allow al-low enough time to spend the whole season in the field if necessary. The animal should be thoroughly cleaned, skinned, quartered and cooled as soon after the kill a sis possible. All permit holders were reminded re-minded that it is their responsibility respon-sibility to be familiar with the rules governing this hunt. The following were listed by the department as they are listed in the 1960 elk hunting proclamation. |
