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Show FISH AND GAME HIGHLIGHTS Utah's mourning dove season opens Sept. I, with department of fish and game field reports showing show-ing a good crop of birds over most of the state. Daily shooting hours are cjne-half cjne-half hour before sunrise to sunset, with a daily bag limit of ten birds and twenty in possession after two days of hunting. Except for parts of Box Elder, Iron and Salt Lake counties the tiove season is open Sept. 1-10 throughout the state. A longer season sea-son of I 7 days continues in six counties: namely, Beaver, Grand, Juab, Millard, San Juan and Tooele. Too-ele. In three southwestern counties, coun-ties, Iron, Kane and Washington, the season continues through September Sep-tember 24. In counties where the longer seasons are set the birds are usually usu-ally found in numbers following the early migration from cooler, higher elevation areas. No Federal bird stamp is required re-quired to hunt doves, though persons per-sons sixteen years of age or older must display the state game bird or combination license and juveniles juven-iles 14 and 15 years old may hunt with the $2 bird license as long as they are accompanied by someone some-one 2 1 years of age or older. The law requires that shotguns be plugged so that no more than three shells may be contained in the chamber and magazine combined. com-bined. Shooting hours the first day are from 5:24 a.m. to 7:01 p.m. and change slightly each day of the season. |