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Show Dove season to open September 1 in state Shotguns and several boxes of shells are the order for this Monday, mourning dove opener for the 25,000 hunters in the field for the first of the fall bird seasons. On Monday, September 1, at 6:24 a.m., doves become legal targets all over the state except ex-cept in closed areas of Salt Lake and Utah counties. Hunting will close on September Sep-tember 30, although few doves are expected to remain this late in the year. Daily bag limit this season is ten birds with a possession limit of 20 after the first days shooting. Any shotgun capable of holding hold-ing more than three shells must be plugged so that the gun may not hold more than two shells in the magazine and one in the chamber for a total of three shells. Open rangeland will again provide the best hunting as dove frequent these areas for food and fly into water holes in the morning and evening. Hunters 12 to 15 years old must hunt with someone 21 or older and dove rules prohibit shooting at birds on power or telephone lines or poles. Shooting hours are one half hour before sunrise each day to sunset; a complete table of shooting times is listed in the dove proclamation. Hunters going onto private land must have the landowner's permission in order to avoid any problems under the new treaspass laws enacted by the State Legislature this year. |