| Show I I B t Driving t I II MW s 1 I By ay FRA FRANK K BAKER BAKER BAKER- Aa bt I Telegram Sports Editor j I prig Kris l I know its it's s a little early to be writing letters etters t to you ut vt a lot of Utah duck hunters have already had some som appointments and I thought you might be able abl to to help them out j I you see its it's this way The he government has specified suni sun- sun i the zero hour or star starting time mg for n. n rie as shooting each da day y dur dur- to the day 60 season now in progress Theres There's a difference you know between i dawn and sunrise sunrises Bother other words a sportsman IS js not supposed to start blazi blazing blazine Ka r ay y r yf at the ducks the mom moment nt he can see the sights on his ng i f fa s. s The ITie go government ern e t has stipulated that everybody must wait the sun is IS s officially up i. i That doesn't mean until he can see sec it coming over the mountain when hen he he sees its first rays in the eastern sky or hen ren he thinks I it ought to be up It means he must wait until the exact minute determined by liy meteorological means for sunrise sunrise 1 According to the Salt Lake City weather bureau at t time time Ue for this locality on Wednesday the opening was a. a m m. and Salt Lake City time is supposed t i to all sections of the st state te In jut other words word s there cu s supposed to be absolutely no shooting until dock that morning and those those who jumped p ed the gun gunt gun r ere t violators of the game law and subject tt to arrest This iS starting time was given elaborate display in the newspapers news news- papers and emphasized again and again in fish and game circles lif or if any duck shooters had opportunity to be in a blind on ont t renung g day without being aware of the appointed zero hour i I Nevertheless the reports of early sh shooting ting have been alt al- al cost t as numerous as the ducks I A che checker ker at one area near Salt alt Lake City said a hunter the vicinity began blazing away at Another got amous am- am ous at and quite a few shots were b being ing heard by dock to Similar reports have come to us from virtually all duck duckLing Wing ting Ling areas in the state In some instances the p public shoot- shoot grounds and the private clubs ran into the same difficulty Consequently the sportsmen who waited until the pre- pre Imbed opening hour had comparatively light shooting It Itaas aas a bright clear day anyway and that always means the ducks are flying high out of gun range and when the eaily shooters prodded the birds to flight it was a dis disappointing disappointing p- p pointing opening to a lot of other sportsmen f Fish sh and game officials are hard pressed to police the luC marshes against this kind of of- unfairness With the raters spread over wide ar areas as in obscure blinds it is a ag g undertaking to apprehend the offenders If some of oft hunters t e insist though in jumping the gun they're apt to find about as many game wardens as hunters in the ears hes es some of these mornings foals foal's why Im I'm writing you I cant can't conceive of a man himself a sportsman going duck hunting and tate Iy y and maliciously trying to spoil the fun for everybody tie te py y shooting far ahead of the appointed hour A true sportsman will know full well that the first barrage t t start art the ducks stirring so that those who play the game to the rules wont won't have good shooting Realizing that Ive I've come to the conclusion that there must JS a lot of poor timepieces carried by the men in this sta state te A of them must be running 10 15 and even 30 minutes fast Bought l you might be able to remedy this situation by getting lOIne of them properly regulated or by putting some of these theses allows s on your lists for new watches at Christmas f s The private clubs will be wise to police their own membership mem- mem a little better because if certain clubs become known as 15 flagrant violators of the starting hour they may find findt t I difficulty getting water and other items essential to their continued operation The early shooter is s setting an extremely poor example A After Tr er all its it's mighty hard to sit idly by and watch fellows in m eI Neighboring blinds chasing all the birds out of the area by byr their r barrages 15 and even 30 minutes ahead of time You the Romans do dowhen t know theres there's a tendency to do as when hen in Rome and before you know it hundreds of shooters Ue Hazing blazing e away long before the prescribed time Duck shooters have gone through several years of at curtailed wity I my as conservation groups fought to save the nations natIon s wild fowl life Just because the season has been lengthened again fa 1 0 I O days this year doesn't mean that the are now ento en- en ed to forget all rules or completely neglect the elements of nunon courtesy to their neighbors neighborS' Yes Yes Santa t Im I'm afraid theres there's a lot of fast watches in this thIS' tory dry and if you cant can't help slow them down a number of prods are apt to be doing some h heavy avy talking talking to squirm out the 00 fine or six months' months jail penalties provided by federal i lv w VI for or early shooting Sincerely i FRANK K BAKER Telegram Sports Editor |
