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Show '$ i I r.4.:':.r,v;-i,,K:i-;V:f:"iV; -hi," .,';,4 t SUCCESS STORY. These four hunters were , among the successful ones on the -opening weekend of the turkey Hunt: Shown with the 19-pound bird are, left to right: Keith Owens, Wil- lard Wood, Craig Matheson and Kay Davis. IVild Turkey Hunt Underway Wild turkey gdhlers take the Spotlight as Utah's first hunting season for 1972 moves toward its second weekend. The spring gobbler hunt runs three weekends through May J Areas open to sipring turkey hunting are: Beaver, Garfield, Grand, Iron, Kane, Piute, Sevier, Washington, and Wayne Way-ne Counties. Also included is part of San Juan County north and east of U. S. Highway J63, State Highway 46, and the Lisbon Valley Road. Legal weaipons for the hunt are bow and broadhead arrows muzzle loading rifles, center-fire center-fire rifles, or shotguns, no larger lar-ger than 10 gauge and no smaller than 20 gauge. Shot sizes larger than BB or smaller smal-ler than number 6 are unlawful. unlaw-ful. Bag and possession limit is two male wild turkeys. Shooting Shoot-ing hours are daylight hours only. Turkey hunters must have a 1972 small game or combination com-bination license and a Spring Wild Turkey Permit. The permits per-mits are $3 each and must be obtained from the Division of Wildlife Resources office before be-fore hunting. Research and experience have shown that a large segment seg-ment of the males in a turkey population are surplus to reproductive re-productive needs. Since gobblers gob-blers are difficult to bag in the fall, it has become a widely accepted management practice prac-tice to hunt them in the spring when they are more easily located. lo-cated. The spring hunting season begins after most mating is completed. At this time, hens are incubating eggs and their secretive behavior protects them from disturbance by hunters. !' .'!!'i,iii : - : 1 m$ BAG BIG ONE Willard Wood and son Todd bring in 18-pound turkey from Cedar Canyon area. |