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Show Turkey Semm Scheduled for Early May Wild turkey gobblers take the spotlight as Utah's a'irst hunting season for 1971 approaches. The spring gobbler hunt is set for May 1-16, 1971. Shooting hours are daylight day-light hours only; bag and possession limit is two male turkeys. Areas open to spring turkey hunting are: Beaver, Garfield, Grand, Gra-nd, Iron, Kane, Piute, Sevier, Se-vier, Washington, and Wayne counties. Also included in-cluded is part of San Juan County north and east of U. S. Highway 163, State Highway 46, and the Lisbon Lis-bon Valley Road. Legal weapons for the hunt are centerfire rifles, bow and broadhead arrows, ar-rows, or shotguns no larger larg-er than 10 guage and no smlaler than 20 guage. Shot sizes larger than BB or smaller than number 6 are unlawful. Turkey hunters must have a small game or combination com-bination license and a Spring Wild Turkey permit. per-mit. The permits are ?3.U0 each and may be obtained from any Division of Fish and Game office. Research and experience have shown that a large segment of the males in a turkey population are surplus sur-plus to reproductive needs. Since gobblers are difficult diffi-cult to bag in the fall, it has become a wiedly accepted ac-cepted management practice prac-tice to hunt them in the spring when they are more vulnerable. The spring hunting sea- son begins after most mat- ii'K is completed. At this tme, liens arc incubating 'gs and their secretive behavior protects them from disturbance by hunters. |