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Show Deer, Elk Hunt Figures Show Season Success Utah big gamo hunters again experienced hughly successful seasons during !).").', with !.". 00,'l deer and W7 elk being harvested. Final figures show UNd!).") deer hunters taking S.".27S animals for a success average of 71. 1'! for all hunters afield in the regular license li-cense This compares to the 1!).2 season when 12.".rG 1 hunters harvested har-vested 7S.t."il deer tor a hunter success of fH.l'; . In addition, 11, "Jill special permit per-mit holders bagged it,72") deer during hunts held last fall in critical range-problem areas over the state, for an K2.V'o success. During the previous year, 1952, 13,43(J special permit holders took 11,210 deer for a success ration of 74.4. Bucks Preferred to Does Deer hunters continued to take many more bucks than does even though either sex deer were legal le-gal game during the general season sea-son in all of the more productive produc-tive hunting units over the state. Per cent of bucks killed was 72.8, compared to the doe take of 27.2 per cent. Continued hunter success during dur-ing the past three years under the either sex law does not bear out the earlier alarm by some concerning over-shooting the deer herds. Records and the annual an-nual surveys show herd numbers remain at range capacity In practically prac-tically all hunting units. The 967 elk harvest was 356 animals ani-mals under the 1,323 taken during dur-ing the 1952 season. It is noted, however, that only 1,497 permits were authorized for the 1953 sea- son as against 1,770 permits for the previous year. Hunter success for holders of elk permits dropped somewhat during the recent season with extremely ex-tremely dry, hot weather known to be the chief contributing factor. fac-tor. In this instance the 1953 figure fig-ure was 62.5 compared to 76 during 1952. |