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Show DUCK HUNT STARTS SATURDAY Utah's 1961 waterfowl season sea-son opens at Noon, Oct. 14, with closing time that day being 5:49 p. m. Shooting hours each day thereafter will begin a half hour before sunrise and close at sunset. Daily bag and possession limit for ducks is five birds. It is illegal to kill or possess either redhead or canvasback ducks again this year, and hunters were reminded to know their birds before pulling pull-ing the trigger. Though a bag and possession limit of six geese is allowed, only one of these may be of the dark or Canada species. This essentially limits the bag to one goose, since few geese of other than the dark species are found on Utah's flyways. Shotguns must be plugged so they cannot hold more than three shells in the firing fir-ing chamber and magazine combined. The shotgun bore may be no larger than 10 gauge. All persons 16 years old or older must possess a proper state license and a federal waterfowl stamp before hunting. hunt-ing. The federal stamp must be affixed to the state license and validated my the hunter's signature on the stamp. Juveniles 14 and 15 years of age may hunt waterfowl without with-out purchase of a federal stamp provided they possess the state juvenile bird hunting license. However, such juveniles juven-iles must be accompanied by person 21 years of age or older. It is illegal to hunt from a moving motor driven boat. Shooting from such a boat is permitted only when it is beached, resting at anchor, or fastend within or tied alongside along-side a fixed hunting blind. |