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Show Page 14 - THE HERALD, 26, 1990 HUNTING, Wednesday, September Provo. Utah, you hunt out of state then go for whitetails If By BILL SCHULZ Associated Press Writer With the arrival of fall, the thoughts of millions nf hunters are turning to North America's premier big game animal, the white-ta- il deer. There are about 25 million white-tai- ls in the United States. About 12 million hunters should put about 5 million of them in the freezer before the last hunting seasons end in January. Early archery seasons already are open in some states. Texas has the largest herd, nearly 4 million animals, and the most licensed hunters. Alabama, Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin all join the club of states with herds estimated at well over 1 million. Now is the time to be out scouting deer territory, particularly for the hunter who is looking for a new place to spend the deer season. Scouting can easily be combined with small game hunting for a dual purpose visit to the woods. It can be done as simply as visiting with friends in suburban areas whose flowers and gardens are too thoroughly pruned by whitetails. Such areas are, however, frequently closed to hunting or open only to archers. Many farmers whose soybeans are nibbled to a nub also welcome hunters especially those who show a little courtesy. Ask politely and take the landowner some kind of a thank-yo- u gift at the start of the season. T7 FRANDSEN'S HUNTER SPECIAL A- Herald Staff Photo Shop around when purchasing a new scope. There are many features that fit only certain hunting conditions. scopes are created equal Not all rifle Optics are very important in selection BY REX C. INFANGER Herald Correspondent It seems like every scope you read about today is the brightest one on the market, at least it is if you believe the company advertising the scope. There are scopes with large objective lens, scopes with wider ocular lens, coated lens, multi-coate- d lens and all coated lens in the scopes. I decided that the way for me to find out which one was the brightest was to conduct my own test. I am not a physics major and I'm sure I didn't set up the experiment the way one of them would, but, basically this is what I did. made a hood for the lens of my camera that blocked out all light coming in for the side. This hood was long eight to attach I three finger widths away to a scope. (I chose the three finger width because I always mount my scopes three finger widths away from my face to keep from getting hit by the scope when the weapon is fired). The hood was attached to the scope so no light from the side could get into the hood. This meant that only light coming through the scope would register on the light meter inside the camera. The camera shutter speed was set on an eighth of a second so only the F stop had to be adjusted to center the meter. I went around to my friends who have different scopes and borrowed them. Each scope was cleaned and set on four power for the test. The light intensity was measured off a blank white wall with the objective lens of the scope six feet from the wall. Larger F stop numbers under these conditions should indicate better light gathering ability. All of the scopes were checked at least twice. The F numbers with a plus behind them mean they were at the F stop between two numbers. The results are given in number and are as follows: Red-fiel- d Widefield 4xF4; Bushnell BushWidefield Trophy nell Banner Weatherby Leupold Supreme Leupold Leupold3-9xF5.- 5.6;& F Bauch 6; Lomb I don't know how much difference there is between F4 and F8 in terms of light gathering ability, but it is evident that there is some difference between the scopes that I was able to test. Bauch & Lomb is the only g maker who claims on all lens and they come out on top. ALL 3 or 4 WHEELERS SERVICE & TUNE UP multi-coatin- I visually inspected each scope and couldn't tell much, if any, difference between the scopes ratand 8, however, there ing 5.6 52 only 50 parts EARLY BIRD SNOWMOBILE & TRAILER TUNE-UP- ! seemed to be more light than the ones registering 4 or Tune & Service Dual Carb Tune & Service Single Carb 4. This test doesn't prove anything but it does point out that there may be differences in the light gathering abilities and that may play a critical role in whether or not you take the animal you are after if you are shooting early in the morning or late in the .....$85 $58 parts parts FRANDSEN'S REC. CENTER 99 W. 300 S., Provo 374-060- 2 Bald Eagle making c omeback By SPORTS AFIELD Hearst Magazine For AP Newsfeatures The bald eagle is making a comeback, but its very success has put its status as a protected, endangered species in jeopardy. Last February, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed, according to an article in the current issue of Sports Afield, to reclassify the bald eagle from endangered to threatened. "The dramatic growth of bald eagle populations in recent years leads us to think the species may no longer be in danger of becoming extinct," Fish and Wildlife Service director John Turner said. The bald eagle has not been saved, countered Jay D. Hair, president of the National Wildlife Federation, which has spent more than $3 million to save eagles. "The population has recovered enough to warrant downlisting in portions of its range; however, numerous threats still face eagle populations," Hair said. "Habitat degradation and loss, human disturbance, toxins and pesticides, and the lack of protection for nest sites on private land A "x .. could prove to be the next DDT to bald eagles." No accurate method of counting bald eagles exists. Last year, wildlife biologists, conducting their annua! breeding pairs survey, counted 2,660 breeding pairs in the 48 contiguous states. A more accurate method of assessing the total bald eagle population is to count the birds when they are amassed at their winter roosting sites, which the National Wildlife Federation has done since in the lower 48 states. Compare 0 these figures to an estimated bald eagles that lived in the continental United States in 1782, according to the National Foundation to Protect America's Eagles. The bald eagle is accepted as a symbol of the United States all over the world, but it has never been officially ratified as our national bird. Its only official status is as part of the design for the national seal, which was approved by the Continental Congress June 1979. 20, 1782. 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