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Show Deer Hunt Dram to Close With Spotty hunter Success As the annual Utah deer hunt drew to a close Tuesday, a number of local lo-cal hunters were making a last-ditch attempt to fill the freezer after ten days of spotty results. Conservation officer Jon Leatham of the Utah Wildlife Resources Division, Di-vision, stated that although al-though many camps, particularly par-ticularly on the south end of the LaSal Mountains, filled up with nice bucks, results appeared to be down considerably from previous years. He was going to check other areas of the mountain Tuesday Tues-day of this week to see how hunters fared there. Hunting pressure on the LaSals dropped considerably consider-ably the second weekend. Most of the camps that crowded such places as Fisher Point during the opening weekend were all but gone by the end of last week. Most persons still in the hills over the past weekend were local hunters. Paul D. Redd, operator of Redd Ranches which operates on the eastern side of the LaSals in both Utah and Colorado, stated that pressure had dropped considerably during the past few days, and he reported re-ported very little Problem Prob-lem this year with hunters vandalizing private prop erty. Mr. Redd stated that it "was his opinion that the heavy amount of feed in the low country this season as a resultofhea-vy resultofhea-vy precipitation in the spring, had scattered the deer herd. It will be hard to tell because of that situation, whether or not the herd is smaller than in past years, he said. Tabulations of hunter success will not be made by Department personnel for several weeks, following follo-wing a survey of hunters by mail. It is predicted, however, that the success ratio this season will be considerably lower than in the past. |