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Show WILDLIFE V repoitt (gTfi UTAH STATE DIVISION OF "(&J WILDLIFE RESOURCES "--S RC the method by which they harvested their deer because each man was entitled to only one deer. If he was successful success-ful with the bow, his hunt for the year was over. Also, some hunters were against the $5 cost of the archery permit. Our reasons rea-sons for the charge, however, how-ever, were that without a fee, many more hunters would be afield, decreasing the quality aspect of the hunt. Additionally, setting regulations, regula-tions, printing of, permits and the extra time law enforcement en-forcement officer must spend in conducting the hunt all cost money. ARCHERY DEER RESULTS The lowest hunter success since 1945 was the story on 1974's deer archery hunt. Some 16,648 archery deer licenses were sold in Utah last year. Their take - 807 bucks and 560 anterless deer for a total of 1,367. This amounted to 8 percent hunter success. In 1973, 25,832 archery deer permits were sold, and hunter success was 14 percent. The most significant change from past years, however, was that 59 percent per-cent of the harvested deer were bucks, Hunters appeared appear-ed to be more interested in taking bucks than does despite de-spite the fact that the hunt was for either sex. There are several possible possi-ble reasons for the decrease in hunter numbers. First, hunters in 1974 had to choose |