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Show !FISH AND GAME HIGHLIGHT PHEASANT HUNT OPENS SATURDAY An expected 85,000 sportsmen will go afield during the pheasant pheas-ant and quail season this year. The three day hunt begins at 8 a.m. Saturday, November 7, and ends Monday, November 9 at 5:30 p.m. Field reports show an excellent excel-lent population of pheasants a-vailable a-vailable this year in all of the better known hunting areas of the state, assording to spokesmen spokes-men for the Utah Fish and Game department. All counties of the state are open to pheasant shooting. shoot-ing. Only six counties will be open to quail hunting during the season. sea-son. They are Grand, Morgan, Salt Lake, Utah, Wayne, and Washington counties. The quail hunt runs concurrently with the pheasant season in all six counties coun-ties except Washington, where it continues through Nov. 15. Regulations governing the pheasant and quail seasons include in-clude the following provisions: Pheasants, cocks only may be legally taken, three bird bag limit siv hirH nnccpscinn limit shooting hours opening day of 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Nov. 7, and 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. the last two days of Nov. 8 and 9. Quail: shooting hours and season sea-son same as lor pheasants excepting ex-cepting Washington county, one day bag limit of eight quail of either sex, possession limit sixteen. six-teen. No rifle, revolver, or pistol may be used in pursuit of pheasants pheas-ants or quail. No shotgun pellets larger than number four shot may be used in such hunting. Juveniles fourteen and fifteen years of age may hunt upland game birds when properly licensed lic-ensed and in the company of someone of adult years. With the annual upland game bird season now at hand, Utah sportsmen are again being urged to respect the property and right of private land owners. O |