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Show Red Caps, Shirts Color Main St. As Hunters Arrive With out-of-state hunters pouring pour-ing into town in preparation for the opening of the annual deer hunting season Saturday, Main street is a busy place this afternoon, after-noon, with red shirts and red caps predominating. Tomorrow will be a different story, however, how-ever, because by that time both out-of-state and local hunters will be heading for the hills and the town will be practically deserted. de-serted. It was thought that with an increase in the out-of-state license li-cense fee there would be fewer hunters here from other states, but apparntly the raise has not stopped many of them, because they seem to be arriving In large numbers. It is the general consensus of those who should know, that it will be a tougher Job to get your buck this year than has been the case for several years. First, it is claimed that the doe kills of recent re-cent years have reduced the herds and many sportsmen claim that the deer are Just not here. In addition ad-dition it is expected that the greatest number of hunters ever licensed will be covering the hunting grounds in quest of the wily buck. The open fall weather is certain cer-tain to add to the hunters' problems prob-lems this year. There has been very little cold weather or storm to drive the deer out of the higher high-er ranges, and in spite of the fact that a storm has been threatening threat-ening for the past few days, it will not do much good now. The leaves have been falling fast the past couple of days, but the trees and shrubs are still pretty well covered with foliage, and the animals will be hard to spot. Tough hunting or not, few who look forward to the big fall event will be discouraged enough not to made a try at it, and it may be surprising what a record kill is made. No matter what conditions condi-tions prevail many deer are taken tak-en each season, and this year will undoubtedly be no exception. |