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Show The Salt I ake Tubune, Friday, September THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1978, DESERET NEWS 22, T7S H9 . test A team of axtronaUs has, LANDER. Wyo won the 35th annual One Shot Antelope Hunt. Paul Weitz and Vance Brand fired tho single shots allowed them under the event's rules early and on target Saturday for the win Weitz connected promptly at the 6 311 am starting time and Brand's kill came at 7 50 a m The shot of the other astronaut, Harry Hartsfeld, went astray The astronauts are participating in the National Aeronautics and Space Administrations space shuttlo program The Colorado team and a team of I S senators also recorded two kills apiece, but the host Wyoming trio, headed by Gov Fd Herschier, and a team of past shooters went scoreless Gov. Dick Lamm and bank president Dick Scarlett of Golden, Colo , connected for the Colorado team Sens Malcolm Wallop, and Kaneastcr Hodges, , regis In lWi. hc governors of Wyoming Colorado and Louisiana wagered Pikes Peak the Ti ton Range and Mississippi Delta The hunt was a tie, so major geographical changes were a voided The event was bom in 193W while Hank Dahl Si of Coloi ado and Haloid Evans of lndot we:e sitting around a campfire high in ihe Roiky Mountains talking alxiut the days of mount am nun and !ndwin tered hits for the senators team Tho only other kill was made by Safari Club International President Noiden Van Horn of the clubs team one of the t The Antelope Hunt was worlds most unusual sporting events repeated for the 35th year on the high, central plains of Wyoming F.ach hunter was issued a single bullet blessed by the Shoshone Indians One-Sho- We decided if the Indians could shoot antelope with bow and arrow we should be able to shool antelope using Just one bullet. says Evans, Kj who, with one exception, has haggl'd a pronghorn in Wyoming every year since the lk.kis Tho first one shot hunt was in 1949 It has been conducted each year except during World War II on ho opening day of the season in the Lander iroa The nation's liost pionghotn hunting Is In Wyoming, where sizeable bands of the 100 140 of the American pronghorn danced that night with the Indian braves and eaeh received a sliver bullet The hunters who didnt score were given mlnature Successful hunters laughing antelope heads and danced In dresses and shawls with the Shoshone women Although commonly called an antelope, the American pronghorn is not related to that family of speedsters The stakes uni ! high, but seldom are serious pound animals sometimes graze within the limits of Casper and Cheyenne, the states two largest cities Th Wv oming Game and Fish Commission juilmrized 70.305 pronghorn licenses this year Hunting is so good that about BO percent of the hunters will bag their animals, says Chief State Game Warden Rex Corst But for the t Antelope Hunt, the 'ui cess i alio up ps to about 42 percent The state's herds have built up from some rough wmteis to about 170, ono pronghorns after the horning season and 5H.K5B were haggl'd last ear Corsi say s. Rules for the One Shot Antelope Hunt are simple Six to eight teams of three hunters each leave Lander before dawn Two vehicles, each with a hunter and guide, comprise a hunting party Because the hunters are on different teams, they Indirectly compete They draw lots to determine who shoots first, then alternate shooting rights pvery hour until the st shot Is fned. Hunt officials administer the coup dc grace to any wounded animal Most participants choose tho 270 Winchessoft point bullet ter cartridge with a But some of the Messed bullets were of the 30 00 persuasion. Over the years, the hunts for North America s lleetest big game animal have not been without their fascinating moments A team of U S astronauts all killed their pronghorns in 1974 Two Soviet cosmonauts on a competing team were also successful, hut the poor shooting of a third cosmonaut ruined the Russian spacemen's record One-Sho- fi-- , By law. so ivreent of the licenses go to resident Cncluimed resident licenses are addl'd to the 20 percent allocatixl to nonresidents Residents generally hunt on public land hi cause they resent paying tresspass fees to hunt on private ram ties The result nonresidents outnumN'r residents and hunt some of the choucst pionghom territory f They outsell every other chain saw you can think of! All of 'em. Model M25-10- " C Model M25D14" SN with carrying case y : Z o t Model M25-1- 0 Has a strong 2 cu. in, engine It's very lightweight, only Mode! M25-1- 4 9 Handles trees up to 28" in ft diameter. 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