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Show General Elk Hunt for 1953 Opens Saturday; Closes Oct. 13 . Utah's general elk hunting season sea-son for 1953 begins Saturday, October 3. and continues through October 13. The general season hunt is set for ten of the nineteen elk hunting hunt-ing districts where a total of 1,500 permits were authorized by the Board of Big Game Control this year. The districts are: Manti-North, Manti-North, Manti-South, Nebo General, North Cache, Ogden River, Rich County, Salt Lake, South Ashley, South' Cache and East Nebo. The East Nebo district was originally orig-inally set up as a five day notice pre-season problem area hunt. But since no problem has arisen to warrant calling this hunt prior to the general reason, the fifty permit per-mit holders for this district will now hunt on the Nebo General from October 3 through 13, as originally or-iginally provided in the 1953 Elk proclamation. One early seascn elk hunt has already been concluded. This was in the Mt. Dutton district, where the Board authorized 35 bull only permits for an eleven day hunt that ended September 22. Reports indicate a hunter success on the Mt. Dutton district of approxi- mately 50 percent compared statewide average during ik, 76 for all elk hunting uniu lf tremely dry weather and the',,," ged nature of the Mt. Dutton are cited as chief reasons for n lower percentage success thl this year. there Post season hunts for the ntt, eight hunting units complete tT picture for the nineteen elk h.mT ing districts this year. Hunter 21' cess is expected to te near tt average 76 per cent of other voir, provided weather and other fn tors are near normal. Spokesmen for the Utah Fi h and Game Department nnte following rules and regulations f Z the 1953 elk seasons: . Only sportsmen possessing an elk permit may carry a gun Am-ing Am-ing the season on the district for which that permit was issued. Board action this year ijmjts rifles with which elk may be hunt ed to the following calibres' 27n" 30-06, 300, 30-40 Krag, 300 ' H i H Magnum, 308, 348, 405 375 u & H Magnum, 7 M.M., 8 mm Mauser, 303 British, and 7.62 Russian. Rus-sian. Elk permit holders are required by law to check through an established es-tablished checking station both before and after their hunt The law requires that 'evrv person, while hunting big game animals, shall wear conspicuous red headgear, and red shirt, red sweater or red jacket. The foregoing -regulations, hunting hunt-ing unit boundaries, and all other laws governing the elk hunts for 1953 are shown in the complete proclamation that has been sent to each successful applicant. Department De-partment spokesmen urge permit holders to know these rules and regulations as shown therein. |
