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Show 5 '.4 Percent Of Utah Hunters Successful In Bagging Deer Based on estimates from deputy wardens on 33 of Utah's tar-flung huntlns districts, 54.4 hunters out of every 100 who wen: alleld during dur-ing the deer hunting season bagged Ihelr gome, game management officials of-ficials of the state fish and game department revealed today. The estimated percentage of hunter success langed from a high of 95 percent In the Dagget county tiea to a low of 20 per cent in o:ne southern Utah districts. Estimations Esti-mations included deer of all sexes Although based on returns as yet ar from complete, the initial compilation com-pilation of the Wardenss reports piovide some interesting figures, fhey show mainly that (he state'. Uer hunting has held to the hlgli level of previous years In the facr of unprecedented hunting demand and that a cossiderable proportion of hunters did not abide by the porbmen's code of "being sure of what you shoot before you shoot It". In answer to the question: "Estimated "Esti-mated number of illegal kill In youi area?", 32 wardens reported a total to-tal of 1009 deer Illegally felled, this number Including a proportionately hlivh number of illegal deer reported re-ported as having been left on the range. Rosa Leonard, Ui.i'a fish an game director, pointed out that -omplcte returns on the deer shoot .vlll not be available until the first f next year following yearly retorts re-torts filed by license vendors. January Jan-uary lOih la the lust date und'i ;tate law on which vendors have to file their reports. Meanwhile, to make the 194J picture pic-ture more complete, Leonard renewed re-newed his appeal for all sportsmen 'o mall In their deer cards at-ached at-ached to big game licenses whether ir not they made a kill. |