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Show Utah's Largest Deer Hunt Opens Saturday Utah's general deer season gets under way at daylight, Saturday, Sat-urday, Oct. 17. Game department officials estimate es-timate that upwards of 125,000 sportsmen will go afield this year during this largest of all (he state's big game hunts. Included Includ-ed in this number are 10,000 nonresidents non-residents from nearby and far distant sister states. Pre-season predictions are that hunter success will be below normal nor-mal in most sections unless immediate im-mediate storms alleviate the serious ser-ious drouth now at hand. Continued Con-tinued warm weather and late heavy foliage are expected to make hunting more difficult than , usual. Numbers of deer on nearly all ' of the G2 herd units over the state are equal to, or in excess 1 of, a year ago following the past mild winter. Officials advise that there is actually no regular deer season as it has been known during past seasons. Under new authority authori-ty given the Board of Big Game Control by the 1953 legislature, only the annual opening day of a general deer season is set by legislative act to fall yearly upon up-on the nearest Saturday to the 20th of October. Under this authority the board scheduled many new types of hunts and lengths of season this year in an attempt to accomplish an equitable harvest of deer in all herd units. . Length of season varies from six days on the Salt Lake, Vernon, Ver-non, Heaston, Stansbury, Tintic areas near the state's centers of population, to 31 days in out-lying sections where it is hoped the longer season will attract more hunters into prime hunting country. Types of hunts lange from buck-only areas in the West Desert, Des-ert, Strawberry and Midway sections sec-tions to two deer units in several sev-eral sections of the state. Most units are open to either sex hunting hunt-ing during a 11-day season beginning be-ginning Oct. 17. Department officials note that several new regulations must be observed by deer hunters this year. They include the following: The new law under which all big game hunters must wear conspicuously con-spicuously red shirt, sweater or jacket as well as the red headgear head-gear as required in the past. Deer hunting is permitted only during daylight hours. The deer tag must be securely fastened to the animal immediately immedi-ately after the kill. It will be unlawful un-lawful to transport deer without the tag being secured to the carcass. car-cass. It is illegal for locker or processing plans to accept untagged un-tagged deer. The tagging law will be rigidly enforced. It is suggested sug-gested that the animal be tagged tag-ged in the hock joint to prevent loss in transporting or if the head is removed. |