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Show '80 Deer Hunt 'fair' Deer huntei. throughout s southern Utah found just "fair" success during the first weekend of the 1980 season, with the week's snow hampering some activity. Chris Chaff in, public information officer for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, reported normal to a bit below normal pressures generally in the region, with access problems to some locations due to muddy roads, "The bucks harvested are a averaging two-point in size. About 80 percent of the bucks are spikes or two points, with just a fair amount of bucks with more mature racks," said Chaffin. The Bloomington check station near St. George, the major station for out-of-state hunters, reported about a 30 percent suc cess ratio for the first weekend of hunting. "That success percentage per-centage may be a bit high," s said Chaffin. "Many of those leaving last weekend were those who got their bucks early. Also, some hunters who are n not successful don't bother to report." In locations south of Beaver County, the hunt will end Friday, while most areas from Beaver north will continue through the usual 11-day season, ending Tuesday. Among the reporting areas frequented by local hunters: -Beaver Mountain. Not quite the success expected ex-pected this year. There is the usually-high pressure, but some access ac-cess problems in higher elevations. Hunters staying in lower areas are not having as much success. -Enterprise area. Moderate to high pressure with fair success. suc-cess. -Fish Lake region. This a area has the usually-high pressure, with fair success. Many hunters have had access problems, though. -Salina Canyon. With moderate pressure, hunting has been reported to be good. There are access problems also in the higher elevations. -Mt. Dutton, near Panguitch. Pressure is above normal, with poor success reported. Muddy and snopacked roads have severely hampered travel to higher elevations.' -Buckskin Valley, northeast of Paragonah. This area has moderate pressure, with fair success. Most of the kill has been small bucks. --Near Fillmore. Reports would indicate this to be one of the top j areas in the southwestern J end of the state. Success has been good, par- ticularly in the Pinon f Juniper Stands area, j near Fillmore. I A Cedar Canyon check- point had been set up Tuesday, but Chaffin said it was still too early to tell how hunters on Cedar Mountain fared. Statewide, success J figures are expected to range near to slightly below last year's statewide 33 percent. The figure in the southern , part of the state may be ( even lower. ' Chaffin also reported i that though part of the Pine Valley area was closed, some hunters had I still been caught in the ' closed area. He reminded , hunters that DWR officers of-ficers would be patrolling the valley for unlawful I hunting activity. ( |