Washington County News | 1942-02-05 | Page 6 | Possible Shortage of Guns and Ammunition Foreseen for 1942 Season

Possible Shortage of Guns And Ammunition Foreseen For 1942 Season SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. -The fish and game department revealed re-vealed today that a possible shortage short-age of ammunition and new guns may exist during the 1942 hunt-ing hunt-ing seasons. Such a shortage would not seriously ser-iously hamper hunting. However, it will be necessary to shoot only at "sure bets" and not to "bang-away "bang-away at ducks and bucks when they are out of range. Mark Anderson, head of the game department, said ammunition ammuni-tion companies reported the possible pos-sible shortage to him. He said that more careful shooting shoot-ing would necessarily result from the situation, and there would be far less game wounded as the result re-sult of ;ong range shots.