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Show Hunting Success ' Decreases with First Snow Storm Heavy snowfall Sunday resulted in a rapid decrease of deer hunter success following- an average or better kill Saturday, October 23, opening day of the general deer season. Opening day fair weather rapidly rap-idly turned into an unexpected p heavy storm over most of the state before noon Sunday. Many popular high country hunting areas had received re-ceived a foot or more of snow before be-fore evening. The kill quickly dropped drop-ped as hunters broke camp and headed for home. Numbers were caught without tire chains and other necessary equipment to meet the weather and road conditions. Latest reports indicate in-dicate .all parties were able to move out, many through the assistance assis-tance of better equipped fellow hunters, department of fish and game employees and personnel of other agencies. .... . i |