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Show Hunters prepare for gobbler hunt in southern Utah Turkey season opens April 26 in the ponderosa covered hills of southern Utah for a small but enthusiastic group of hunters after one of the fiivest game birds in North America. Hunting pressure is generally gener-ally light for the spring turkey tur-key hunt, even though the bag limit on male gobblers was raised to two birds. Hunter success for last year's spring hunt was 11',;, a respectable figure when hunting for this elusive bird. A small game license or combination license is needed along with the $3 turkey permit. per-mit. All of Iron, Kane, Garfield, Gar-field, Sevier, Wayne and Grand counties will be open along with parts of Washington Washing-ton and San Juan counties. Legal weapons are rifle centerfire cartridges, bow and Droaonead arrows, or shotguns no larger than 10 guage or smaller than 20 gauge with shot sizes no larger than BB or smaller than No. 6. Camouflaged clothing and turkey calls are considered desirable, de-sirable, but not mandatory for turkey hunting. |