Show lIS I t Me Mirror r rr i JoI By fly Mooney oon Telegram Sports Sport p f Editor r t This Y years yarE ara de deer r hunt has been keen t darkened by more thore than the usual usua I mount of trag tragedy d but but even In inthe I the foe gloom there have been lighter n ts I lon lonn j For por example take the case of t tt e fo four r army officers from near nearO O d n who vacated our camp at t mountain j just st st. b before r fore we How the officers received their their faulty information is beside the point but the matter stands that fiat they spoiled their entire hunt pith mUi their bl blundering nd The officers got Rot off U on th the wrong lIrong loot foot taking taking- for lor granted that ramp camp h help lp would be a all able for the more menial tasks of cO cooking king erecting t tents and packing In de deer r. r Of course any fitA hunter s kuo these I luxuries are Atc left in n civilization i but someone neglected to tell teU the officers rs that At any rate they arrived at atthe atthe the camp expecting to find all the sen Ices of the dude dud ranch That they tt were ere disappointed Was WasI vas as I I mild mUd understatement I. I I I But the payoff came cane the first morning wh when n the party knocked ck d down two d deer r ts several era miles from camp camp The officers rode back to camp and nd sought lIo camp help in packing In their deer but none was avaU bl So o they hunted some mote more and It wasn't until late Sunda Sunday Sun Sun- da day daP almost two days after the thede de deer were killed that a guide could be Secured to bring In the tM deer When the guide guid reached the spot et the kill he found both deer their carcasses bloated al almost almost almost al- al most b beyond yond recognition This was only natural Inasmuch as th they Y had hadl l laiA j just ut t as th they fell fen in the hot luA RIft for far two d days ys When hen the guide gulde refused to haut haul inch luch a hiss mesi to camp sonic some of I the officers were highly Indig- Indig I sint h Vh the guide quoted one oneS oneL L M S S saying theres no need t tb to and bleed bIed a deer that's been bat MiOt In the head lI He lie cant can't p possibly spoil Well SeIi theres there's another hunting h fallacy bl blasted for that t four- four lome zonie However we heard of a young lie ten tent t Who had a b better tt r eys- eys tei tern After he had Md dropped his deer de r he rode rod off and ad dame Came am back shortly with a II pickUp lck up truck and anda a de detail tau of privates tes who dressed the deer load loaded d It bond and drove away A group of us Including Alan R Randle of the state fish and andI I game department Orange Olson Oleon of the U. U S S. S lor forest st service and andAl andAl Al At Brown game gam gamard ard Warden n for Monroe mountain ere cre sitting i th the tM C campfire one night hight earlier In th the talking th author happened to bring lip P lIt ton litan an Incredulous 11 wn way the humber hum hum- b ber br r of pound 10 deer reported oh shot t this year yean The threesome who must have 1 killed several eral hundred h deer leer at l le leant leati t among them couldn't re remember re- re member ever killing a 3 pound de deer der r. r Handles Handle's top lop op deer for size neighed something like 1 pounds browns Brown weighed about 21 and Olson on who claims to toh F h ht h 6 killed more than a thousand k and td fleer deer admitted tho the biggest deet ho her ever dropped weighed d just over vet pounds lb Randl Randle will b be bet t tha that there wont won't b be 10 deer weighing pounds apiece killed dUed in the state this year although this department has t re received re- re elved word of at least triple that number already And fo of points on the deer there nas been ho no parallel l this year Deer h have vc been reported b bearing as many as 22 points this y year ar which would make a rack bigger than most elk lk possess if true The usual way of ot counting points is to take the largest of the two spreads and count the actual points not the little bumbu a deer with five live points on one Me side and nd four I on n the tho other would only be a B. point five buck n not t a nine pointer r as many Imagine Good Samaritan Dept The author of this column after mU mussing up tip hi his chance at securing a 3 gun for the deer hunt decided deeMed to go an anny ny and participate participate par par- Just In m the fun of riding along hen he ran across Wes Ves Ensign of 01 Salt Lake just leaving camp and Wes kindly loaned his hisgun hisgun gun un for the hunt That was the tho final touch to making a 3 completely com corn l tely successful hunt rs continue t to complain tn about the scarcity of deer throughout through through- out the state stat It Couldn't be those murderous doe hunts so to strongly tr l gly advocated ted by three fifths fifths of f the big game board of control that causes the deer crop to fall faU off could It |