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Show BEAVER COUNTY PRIMING FOR BUCK HUNT Beaver County deer hunters, residents, former residents, and visitors, are rushing around making last - minute preparations prepara-tions for their annual chase of the white-tailed mule ears, and the weather man cooperated by sending a mild storm into the area, leaving a little snow in the higher mountains and pelting pelt-ing rain onto the leaves in the lower elevations. Prospects for a successful hunt, according to the State Fish and Game, are "bright," but Milford sportsmen who have been jeep-riding in the surrounding mountains the past week report "there ain't no deer" in the Mineral Mountains, where a special600 doe kill was authorized, and deer in the west mountains are "scarce." One large herd was reported west of Milford, with a goodly number num-ber of nice bucks, but the terrain ter-rain is so rugged and the area so difficult to effectively hunt because of heavy cedar growth that the herd is expected to still be there after the season tloses. Reports from Beaver state that the deer have been crossing cross-ing over Highway 91 for the past month, which would indicate indi-cate that hunting in the Chalk Hollow-Jack Henry area, and the Cinder Beds and other east Mineral slope areas might be good. Shooting starts at daybreak Saturday, and continues until Nov. 1st. The same general provisions govern hunting in Beaver County. A regular license li-cense is good for one deer of either sex, except on the West Desert "(west of the Union Pacific Pa-cific Railroad) where the hunt is for bucks only. Deer must be tagged at the kill, before moving to camp. This year, no gun with bore smaller than .25 calibre may be used, and no gun shooting a cartridge less than two inches in length. |