Show Duck Pheasant Season Next for Utah Nimrod's By Bill Coltrin Utah wives might as Well veIl make up their minds to spend 1 some lonely week ends for husbands have the perfect 3 excuse They will be out hunting This week end is the last of the regular deer hunting season although actually the season lasts through Monday And since a lot of license holders still haven't bagged their buck they will be out for one final fling From indications it will sili be tough hunting Sunda Sunday with the deer so high in inthe inthe L the mountains that it is a cinch it will take more hiking I than hunting to locate one Then after a few days to rest up in the middle of the week the Boys s can wheel out their shotguns for the scattergun scattergun scattergun scatter- scatter gun season which will open with a double bang the following week end Duck and geese will be legal game at noon on Friday Fliday Oct 29 and Sand pheasant season opens at noon on the following following following follow follow- ing day The duck season lasts for several weeks with the daily shooting after the opening day legal a half hour after sunrise Pheasants can be shot for only three days Saturday Sunday and Monday Oct 30 31 and Nov 1 with the opening hour 7 am a.m. on the last two days Saturday Oct 30 should be a great day in the life of any Since it is the second day of duck hunting morning shooting will vill be legal so it will ill be entirely possible to get a limit of ducks five birds and then get out at noon when pheasant season opens and get a limit of pheasants three cocks o From all reports and nd indications both ducks and pheasants pheasants pheasants pheas pheas- ants should be plentiful this year 3 For ducks and geese of or course the popular spots will be anywhere in the thousands of acres of mar marshland of the Great Salt lake while white the big congregation of oi pheasant hunters will be found in the southend southend south southend end of Utah county west of Spanish Fork on the shores of Utah lake A few lucky U ahns will get a chance at the states state's biggest game early in November when about 1000 who drew out in the drawing for permits take to the hills The regular elk season is from Nov 6 to Nov No 15 but this is of no interest except to the aforementioned 1000 hunters Still more hunters who drew special deer hunting permits permits permits per per- mits will have open seasons from Nov 6 to Nov 15 and again from Nov 27 to Dec 6 So it could be that a person could be lucky enough to hold both an elk permit and a special deer hunt permit and thus could be trying for some sort of game practically every day between now and the middle of December But that might be just a bit monotonous even though cutting the butchers butcher's bill to just about nothing |