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J-t. r Backseat D ving By B By FRANK K BAKER BAKER BAKER- Telegram Sports Editor A tenth o of the states state's po population will have their theiron s O on hunting triggers during the next two months i too much simply cant can't be said about the need for pre pre- U on n among the sportsmen p ThouSandS of turned ed out Wednesday for the open- open t Of f the day 60 duck shooting season and many more will suit when the weather is s more conducive to g good od duck g. g t. t The state stat fish Lish and game department estimates that t ee n and deer hunters will be in m the mount moun- moun if beginning Saturday great many of these sportsmen carrying powered high-powered I I will be back a few weeks later for the elk season and sant quail and nd rabbit hunting will help thousands in the thea W I for or a long time to come a Utah's hunting Bunting is a wonderful heritage Year in and andai ta ai out it is the finest in the nation and as sportsmen it tp p to all of us to take every possible precaution to make safe K f A hunter with a gun in his hands who doesn't know JT ito to o shoot is no sportsman and we may as well be frank franku franki grit u i it I have never been able to agree with the theory fit game shooting is the inalienable right of everybody m can buy a license and own or borrow a gun As has sa said d before in this column I believe there should be on which shooters would have to pass before allowed to b buy y a hunting license I t long last an applicant nt for a license to drive an automobile Itt g required to demonstrate that he knows how to start stop stop a car as well as be physically fit to drive a machine not make the same requirements of a potential hunter i peer Deer hunters are asked to wear red to distinguish them deer Commissioner Newell B. B Cook is urging all nim- nim his year to wear red coats or shirts in addition to the usual c caps ps on the assumption that the cap may not be conspicuous i feigh on a hunter who may be walking through heavy brush lIt Jt is a wise recommendation and hunters who dont don't have rc coats ats or or shirts should at least cover their shoulders and andi i with some s me sort of crimson cloth which would cover up drab hunting clothes f- f fAll All this is fine but what protection is it against the hun er who is color blind Or what safeguard is it against the them thesa m sa DU whose eyesight is badly impaired J 1 spent an interesting two hours at the hunters' hunters clinic i by the Salt Lake Small Arms club on the Fort Douglas rifle range Sunday Among other things I saw Or M fellow trying to shoot whose eyesight was so poor he couldn't see how his target was being marked only away Needless to to say say that kind of a hunter is a amace amace mace menace in the hills The 1 e sights on many guns had to be corrected but that is tt purpose of such a clinic Sights on one gun were bad Its owner kept shooting into the ground many feet I Tay ml y from the target and even in the hands of V W. W J. J Patter- Patter ca the state champion this gun was shooting eight and ten tent t wide of ot the target at yards After Alter careful readjustment though Patterson sighted in in so he could hit the target with it k Members of the rifle group made dozens of adjustments Jie like lie this his without which the would ouId have had little dance of getting their deer Lee Kay the fish and game departments department's representative raTe ae an m impressive lecture and demonstration about the hazards gun handling and of improper loads In the face facet ff t this s though range directors picked up several shell cases SJ condemned ammunition issues And one fellow was seen ing the range with a clip of five shells in the gun magazine M one already i in the barrel before barrel before a supervisor all but took gun away from him 1 Careless practices like this contribute to the yearly Ranting toll Some of the well established hunting parties hue ave e long standing rules on the handling of guns They lIIS Insist foist st that tha all guns be unloaded before reaching camp and mi bat nobody l load ad his gun until the party is away from camp camp l 11 the next morning I know one group that makes a ritual f insisting that all guns be pointed squarely up into the air while being loaded Everybody visiting the clinic Sunar Sun- Sun vas lV ar vas required to open the gun bolt so there would be no J Possible ch chance nce for an unloaded gun to go off int carried in an analysis of ioS interesting r sting figures were h nal oai h hunting g ac accidents in a recent issue of the Hunting and andE anding r H ing g magazine Credited to Fay ray Welch of the New York E ollege co ege of f forestry restry they were as follows i Two o hundred and seventy-nine seventy were killed instantly a ars ti others ers rs died later of the ages given were minors ot them bys anding children hunters shot each eacher er r shot themselves 70 were injured by hit hit and and and- iJu h rs rs 36 of the guns had gone off because the hunters rOot 0 understood the mechanism of the gun and in 21 cases l Loman hu looked to the hunter like a full fullI r being seems seems' to have I m jn deer eer four hunters hunter injured or killed others while swing i 24 24 in- in Wor with their gun gun following th the flight of game t b 8 or r killed themselves by pulling a loaded gun toward oward th for fort Selves ae es Snow or mud in the gun barrel accounted theon the using were accidents accident c Seventeen manslaughters t their U 19 were cleaning a club on wounded birds and 1 Wit lt It of the army men menh f was interesting to watch some tily y t the e shell casings ejected from the various guns ate at for p h e dinic Captain W. W R. R Maxell l picked up one case Sample e X and suggested the hunter have bave the firing pin pm adA adS add ad- ad fiust uste S cd d badly that there was wash A It was cutting the case so d danger h g r. r of th the C explosion gas coming right out blinding the rear him of Ife chamber into th the hunters hunter's eye and load of ot j One nimrod who wo persse persisted in n u using an ancient e 1904 ilot the gravity of 04 vintage couldn't seem to appreciate Ibe h situation e I not realizing that it had bad been condemned C elements clements and and was Having burning lost its progressive of or o oJ nitroglycerin J anger nger of exploding like so much J do doing g a hang fire lire and bursting in his face when the gun gunt bo bolt should be ned t o opened i t a e poj point is that most hunting accidents are pre- pre prea oJ J I 4 t |