Iron County Record | 1973-03-22 | Page 11 | Antelope and Archery Harvest Reports Released for '72 Seasons

Antelope and Archery harvest reports released for 72 seasons Harvest reports for last fall's antelope and archery hunts have been tallied by the Di-vision Di-vision of Wildlife Resources. Utah issued more antelope permits in 1972 than any other time si"0 legal hunting was initiated. Division biologists noted that the unit with the lowest hunter success, the West Desert unit, where 68 percent of the sportmen bag-ged bag-ged their quarry, was comparable com-parable with the long term statewide hunter success aver, age of 69 percent The Parker Mountain unit achieved 96 percent hunter success for the highest in the state. The 251 hunters afield took 19S bucks for a statewide success of 79 percent This is 10 percent above the long term average recorded sine 1945. when antelope hunting began in the Beehive state. The 1972 archery hunt was participated in by 20,047 hunters hun-ters who harvested 3,243 deer. Ten hunters reported killing two deer by using their regular regu-lar license tag In addition to the archery permit.