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Show L ... y' j , f ... : ' : ) f - ; , i - ; s ) J . m i , , - ..A. . y . :.. ... J Muzzleloader hunter Don Dixon of Richfield and bear now that he has been rendered rug outfitter-guide Mela in Mecham of Tropic have material. Dixon drew out on the bear hunt and no problem cozying up to this 300-plus-pound came off Boulder Mountain a happy hunter Richfield Hunter Takes Boulder Mountain Bear With Muzzleloader BOULDER A Richfield hunter who holds the world's record on a muzzleloader kill of a leopard, added once again to his muzzleloader muz-zleloader skills when he shot a 300-plus-pound bear on Boulder Mountain Moun-tain over the Labor Day weekend. Don Dixon, 57, a career veterinarian veteri-narian in Richfield, filled his muzzleloader muz-zleloader permit with a brownish-blond brownish-blond 6-7-year-old boar, taking the animal with a 50-caliber Gonic muzzleloader. The bear had been identified by area cattlemen as the "blond" bear that had been getting after their cows. Dixon has hired McClain Mecham of Mecham Outfitters, Tropic, to guide him on Boulder Mountain. Mecham and Dixon went out for two days on the final weekend of August and picked up the trail of the marauding bear, but failed to get him. They went out again for three days on the Labor Day weekend and bagged their bear. Dixon, a naiive of Washington state, has hunted most of his life all over the West and in New Mexico, Canada and Africa. He has hunted deer, elk, cougar, lions, leopards and lots of bear and along with his record leopard. His most unusual V kill was a Persian Ibex. He is a native of Washington state and has hunted all over the west and in New Mexico, Canada and Africa. He has hunted deer, elk, cougar, lions and leopards. In his Boulder Mountain bear hunt, Dixon used horses and hunting hunt-ing dogs provided by Mecham. He said he likes to use a local guide who provides equipment and knows the area. Dixon used Mecham Outfitters to hunt a 30-inch buck on a previous previ-ous occasion on the Paunsagunt and is planning to use Mecham again in two weeks to shoot a muzzleloader elk hunt video for footage for commercial use. Don's wife is Joanne Dixon who had a conflicting engagement in Seattle this Labor Day weekend and could not accompany Don as she usually does. She is a writer and author of many articles for hunung magazines. The two recently returned from a three-week safari in Africa, loved it and plan to go again. ''J;-w-. yHJ f i ,t t y . V - - 'V : i Dodd & Talbot Construction finish concrete sidewalks for new Panguitch Middle School modular units already in place. i |
