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Show DOVE SEASON STILL OPEN IN MILFORD Utah's mourning dove season comes to a Close Sept. 10 in most counties, but will continue through at least Sept. 15 in all other counties. Once again this year, three counties, Kane, San Juan, and Washington will remain open for the taking of mourning doves through Sept. 30. Department spokesmen noted that the recent cooling trend has hastened the southward movement of these early migrating mi-grating birds and indicated that shooting should be expected to be on a hit or miss basis during dur-ing the remainder of the season sea-son with concentrations found in one area one day and completely com-pletely gone the next. Best shootig, however, is to continue in the marginal and dry farm sections where plentiful plenti-ful supplies of sunflower grain and weed seeds constitute an important food supply for the birds. Shooting hours are one-half hour before sunrise to sunset daily, with bag and possession limits of ten' and twenty birds, respectively. ARCHERS DO WELL Field reports Indicate an average av-erage hunter success during the current archery season which started September 1, and continues con-tinues through September 16 this year. Game managers anticipate that the Utah bow and arrow deer harvest will once again reach a ten per cent of greater hunter success ratio, as it has during the past several years. The reports to date show seme deer being taken from nearly all herd units over the State, with the heaviest kill coming from the more popular areas such as the Beaver, Fish-lake, Fish-lake, Strawberry and Uinta Mountains, where a large portion por-tion of the archery permit holders usually hunt. Permit sales to date list another an-other increase of participants in this popular recreational pursuit pur-suit with an expected 11,000 or more hunters afield this year compared to the 9,889 archers who hunted deer during the 1961 season. ELK PERMITS READY Elk and moose hunting permits per-mits will be mailed in the near future to 2,520 applicants whose names were selected during the August 28 public drawings conducted con-ducted in the State Capitol. Figures covering the elk applications ap-plications this year show that 14,690 persons applied for the 2,520 permits authorized for 19 hunting units by the Utah Board of Big Game Control. Same figures for a year ago. show 15,882 persons applied for the 2570 elk permits set by the Board for the 1961 season. |