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Show Deer Season Begins With Usual Flair The sharp crack of high-powered rifles sounded throughout tha length and breadth of Utah Wednesday Wed-nesday on deer hunting araaa aa soma 13.000 huntera opened their campaign on deer herds. Before tha seaeon la concluded on October SO a total of 28,000 shooters shoot-ers will have been aaen In action. Tha opening day contingent numbered num-bered one of the largest to aver sat out In quest of wily buck deer. I -on before official eauiup Wedneeday hundreda ef t'tail ree-Identa ree-Identa rrawlrd out ef warm beds, partook ef haaty breakfast and joined In the hunt. Late Tote-day Tote-day night southern t'Uh town resounded with revelry ae eut ejf atate nlmroda conducted Impromptu Im-promptu deer haunters' parties. The hunting brigade waxed enthusiastic en-thusiastic aa tha weather man. came to the rescue with cold, snappy weather. Conditions for hunting were Ideal. The ground was firm in all aectlons of the state. Dry twigs and leaves remained sufficiently suf-ficiently frosen throughout Wednesday Wednes-day morning to permit good tracking track-ing of deer without making undue noise. Many herds are still found In high mountains, the food in upper levels still being fairly abundant. Despite warm weather which has worked in favor of the deer and game officials' declarations that hunting will "be tough." the majority ma-jority of early season shooters were In a confident frame of mind aa they started out in quest of Utah's first big game species on the hunting hunt-ing books this season. Contrary te swual opening day procedure of going out for a abort time, getting the "lineup" en situation of herd and then returning to cams to make ready for an official "start" on the second sec-ond day of the aeaaon, many huntera who atarted out Wednesday Wednes-day were equipped with equipment equip-ment and food for several days, and many declared their Intention, Inten-tion, of slaying in the field unUl their prise haa been gained. Many veteran hunters, however, following a pocedure of several deer shooting campaigns, remained at home Wednesday and made plans to start Saturday for choice locations, loca-tions, hoping to get their deer either eith-er Sunday or Monday of next week. |