Show THE THER R REEL f E L DOPE I Iy y BILL COLTRIN ti BeCore this deer hunting season g gets ts any older we want to get Iton Iton it iton on record that there are arc a number of ol stories that might as well be passed this year ear and we trust that 11 no iq one takes the trouble to tell ten em We Ve do not want ant to hear any wild yarn arn about bout some deer being killed At TOO 00 yards or some such incredible ble distance Even it if the distance b eyed sur by a civil engineer and certified to by a notary public we will not riot believe It 11 aThen Then there is 15 the story about the Ruy who knocks down a deer runs to it and hangs his tag on same same But the deer is only wounded and it takes of otc off Then another hunter drops It Both hunters reach the animal at about the thes I s same same me time But when hen the first I hunter shows sho his tag already on I the the deer the second gives in re remarkIng remarking remarking re- re marking that anyone who can run fast enough to tp tag one on the fly deserves s the beast Certain to fo Happen That That yarn goes the rounds every y year sr and It Is certain to happen t to someone this year We Ve also can pass up the stories about the hunter hes he's usually a aC C Californian because they the are so stUpid who kills a mule drapes Jt Jt it over his fender lender and nd proudly drives through town showing ot off his trophy We Ve We sort of oC like the one about the th hunter who whip emerges from th the brush and asks his partner Say are e deer deet ever ever- white When th the answer is no the first d deer er r hunter starts running screamIng screaming screaming scream scream- ing at his partner that weve got gotto gotto to tp get out of here Ive I've just killed a 8 horse Again this one is always blamed on a visiting Californian naturally It might also be wise ise to skip t f lUnK stories a about b o 0 u ii t driving along long seeing a deer stopping the thear tar ear ar and banging away right from the car door This is Is' Is frowned upon by the gendarmes and such tales will bring you nothing but trouble And the Ja last t one we cant can't use anymore k ks the one about killing a buck high up on a mountain and having haying him roll down the them m mountain right into the camp practically right up upon the fender of your our car We had a rather remarkable experience ex ex- Friday the day before the season opened Fella called up wanted to tp know a good place to go gos s some me place near Salt Lake City since he could only go on Satur Satur- day He Doesn't Care Car CareWell CareWell Well Wen we started poInting out put the advantages and disadvantages of places around and about and h he interrupted by saying that he didn't care too top much whether he got a adeer adeer adeer deer or not not not-he he wanted to go to toa toa toa a a place where the scenery would be benIce nice the walking pleasant and the minimum chances of oC getting potted himself This sort of thinking will get him banned from the Organized Meat Hunters of oC the state but it rates a large pat on the back from this department That gu guy is a cinch for a good time too loo for lor he will not consider the day lost if iC he doesn't bring back the biggest buck In se seven seen en counties But he will have a lot of fun hiking around the hills and en enjoying enjoying en- en the outdoors as they should be enjoyed and he will come back refreshed while his hungry h brethren will ill strain their little JUtIe hearts lungs lung and legs to the utmost just so 50 they the can bring home a 1 hundred pounds of venison the majority of ot which wi will spoil an anyhow how Incidentally the archers are up In arms and we wouldn't be surprised sur sur- if it a a hunter gun-hunter gets himself by an arrow before the season cason Is over All this comes about because the archers are claiming that the rifle boys took delight in scaring their deer up in the canyons east of oC Salt Lake City during the he special archers archers' archers archers' arch arch- ers ers' hunt The b bow w and arrow boys say liay that they would be stalking a wily buck and would just about be in position to let fl fly when the rifle bo boys s 's sitting high on the hillsides around them would fire their guns scare the deer and the stalk would have been in vain t. t Will Lead to War Such tactics as these can lead lend only to IP war but the archers should remember that they are not only outnumbered but that it is generally generally gen gen- orally conceded that a Is h considered considered con con- IId red a little more lethal than a l bow ow and arrow W We will remark though that with rifles making things tough for Cor the bow and arrow hunters hunts hunt hunt- I ers rs s deserve nothing less th than n to be set up for target practice for forthe forthe forthe the archers Properly posed they would provide a lot of pf irate bowmen bown bow bow- men n a lot pf ot good clean fun tun |