| Show r S l r R Lucky hunter gets t l s bear and deer in 41 e i g r Deer hunting has always been J f a popular activity In the t Uintah t Basin Some hunters in 1941 v according to the Vernal Express Ex- Ex x X press of October 23 1941 added something extra to their deer hunt The story follows DEER STORIES are common com mon thi this flits ti time e of the year but when one can can b be connected with witha a bear story and display both animals for proof of the telling crowds will listen Saturday Lynn Reynolds brother F Fred red and Mr Reynolds Reynold's son Lor Lorin in went to Lake Mountain to get their deer Mr Reynolds was fortunate to tomake tomake tomake make his kill at about 8 30 am a.m. Leaving the other two he went around round the mountain for some distance and sat down in the shelter of a rock ledge while the others stalked a deer In a valley below INTENTLY WATCHING their efforts and ready to signal any sight of the deer he heard a tread and then a sniff at his back Mr Reynolds turned to to see a large brown bear coming around a point about 30 feet away Frightened as he stated until his hair was standing on end he expected the bear to lunge at him before he could get getto to his feet The bear evidently had been following Mr Reynolds Reynold's tracks but was also startled when it rounded the point and found its v quarry seated sealed on the ground While Mr Reynolds would not state definitely that he looked for a tree to climb he did state slate he was greatly relieved to note the bear took time to rear on its hind legs inspect him for a moment and then start to amble around him TAKING KING AIM MM one shot brought Mr Bear down in his racks tracks With the bear on one fender lender and the buck on the other Mr Reynolds prou proudly ly displayed displaY his his' double kill 1 to to admiring groups pmj on of Vernal The Toe bear weighed over pounds The pelt pel t will be tanned and nd a fine rug made of it f v g Another story dealing with the the h g of an animal that not hunters have the flite f See Ce follows as it was printed In in the hc Vernal Express on n Fe February 25 1954 A Ii mountain lion 1 was killed d Jat at the mouth of Brownf s Canyon in Dry bry Fork j. j last F c. c by a party of five Vernal Verna hunters In ht the fierce battle that ensued three of the eight hunting dogs were I Injured nj Tracks of the animal were spotted on the road four miles above Dry Fork by Ernest Caldwell and his son Bryce at about am a.m. as they drove to work at their lumber camp on Brush Creek mountain HI RETURNING TO Dry Fork the two men put in a call for assistance which quickly brought George Nay government government govern govern- government ment trapper Carl Searle and Woodey B. B Searle to hunt with their dogs The dogs hit the tracks at 10 am a.m. and had the screaming cat catIn catin catin in a pine tree within twenty minutes not more than yards from the road The hunters knew long before they reached the spot that the cat had been loca located ted by the sound of the dogs' dogs barks as the anxious animals lunged high into the bra branches of the tree to get a at t the lion The old cat was making furious swipes at the blood bloodhounds bloodhounds bloodhounds hounds with his murderous claws missing only by inches WHEN WilEN TilE THE mountain lion was finally dislodged from the tree limbs the dogs and cat rolled down a hill for about fifty yards in a large fur furry y ball one dog grasped tightly in the paws of the vicious battler Ernest Caldwell shot the cat with a 22 pistol when it backed up against some small shrubs making its swipes count with bloody gashes in the dogs as they cornered him IT WAS VAS the tenth mountain lion to be killed in the Uintah Basin this winter and the tenth hunt this year for Mr Nay who has killed cats since he started trapping A pound lion was killed on Red Hed Mountain December 6 four were killed atthe at the one oneat at Hill lull Creek and three at Black Trail Mountain Mountain according to Mr Nay Before being employed as a government trapper Mr Nay trapped privately and in his first year killed twenty cats One winter he killed a total of 26 eighteen of them in one month while the record was was sixteen for six weeks lie He has been at Vernal for four years so 80 SO REMEMBER ItEl when you go deer hunting i that there are other animals in the mountains moun moun- |
