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Show Big Game Season Results Detailed RrculU of the 1984 big game hunt seasons are now in according to Panguitch Conservation Officer Norman McKee. Figures show Garfield County with one of the largest harvests in history. McKee reports the Antimony deer unit (Mt. Dutton) yielded 455 bucks for a 40 percent hunter success. In addition, 56 antlerless deer were taken in a confined area around Antimony to remove problem deer from agricultural fields. The Parowan unit (Panguitch west to MS) showed a harvest of 1,756 bucks and 374 antlerless. The special antlerless hunt was also in an area adjacent to cultivated agricultural lands along 1-15. Hunter success on the buck harvest was 46 percent. Four hundred seventy-nine bucks were taken from the south Boulder area for a 38 percent success. Statewide, 63,044 buck deer were taken with a 33 percent hunter success. The advent of open bull elk units in Garfie'.d County dramatically increased in-creased elk harvests over past I ' , years. McKee reported card returns indicated 139 bulls were taken on the Mt. Dutton unit and 111 bulls harvested har-vested from the Boulder Mountain. In addition, 53 bulls were harvested from the new Beaver Mountain open bull unit, and seven bulls were taken on the 10 permits offered on the Panguitch Lake unit. The Johns Valley pronghorn antelope unit again yielded a 100 percent hunter success for the 15 lucky permit holders. The nation's unique herd of wild buffalo on the Henry Mountains of eastern Garfield County again offered of-fered an excellent hunt to the once-in-a-lifetime permitees. The 36 hunters harvested 35 of the huge animals for a 97 percent hunter success. The first-ever hunt of the recently transplanted Desert Bighorn sheep of the Escalante River proved disappointing to the two permit holders. The big, rough country of the Escalante River area proved too much in trying to locate legal sized rims and neither hunter was successful. suc-cessful. According to McKee, 1985 again looks very good for the big game |