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Show 150,000 HUNTERS HIT DEER RANGES SATURDAY IN ANNUAL QUEST FOR BUCK Good hunter success should be the rule for an expected 145,000 big game hunters afield during Utah's general deer season beginning Saturday, Oct. 18. Harold S. Crane, director of the Department of Fish and Game, said this prediction was based on several factors including includ-ing present forecasts of mild weather for the opening weekend week-end of the hunt ; the past mild winter ; a good brood stock and spring fawn crop, and a greater scattering each year of hunters into some of the more distant better hunting areas. The director reminded that the best harvest years occur when weather conditions permit per-mit access into the back country coun-try sections over the state. Current predictions are for continuance of the present mild weather at least through the opening week end of the h unt. "We are chiefly concerned that all deer hunters will play the game during the deer season sea-son in a safe, sane and sportsmanlike sports-manlike manner," Mr. Crane said. "Only in this way can anyone realize the full recreational recre-ational values that should at- i tend this hunting season. I "We hope each hunter and party will go prepared to meet adverse weather conditions that so often occur on a moment's mo-ment's notice, will respect the right of the private landowner landown-er where many will hunt and where permission is required to trespass, and will observe all the laws governing this hunt to include those of safe gun handling." |
