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Show Hunters Crowd Fields and Marshes For Opening Days Hunters found both ducks and pheasants numerous this weekend when the duck season opened Friday Fri-day and the pheasant season at noon. The hunters observed the noon opening on the ducks very well, but there were a great many who started shooting pheasants a long time before the noon opening. open-ing. Ducks were plentiful wherever the hunters went and none had any trouble getting plenty of shooting and those who wanted limits were able to get them very easily. Geese were not seen in any great numbers and be have not heard of any hunters getting one. The duck season will run well into December with one half hour before sunrise to one hour before sunset, being' the legal time in which to hunt. The greatest number of hunters ever assembled in this area Saturday Satur-day to start on the pheasant hunt. Cars from all over the state were here, as well as a large number from California. As soon as the hunt started every field was filled with hunters, including many of them that were posted against trespassing. Hotels and cabin owners own-ers report that they were booked far in advance for reservations, and turned away many who applied appli-ed later. Hunters slept in cars, tents, abandoned houses and anything any-thing they could get. Cafes were taxed to the utmost to feed the hungry crews, and license sales centers ran out of all kinds of licenses early Friday. Duck stamps were not to be obtained even early ear-ly in the week. Even with the large crowd here and every bush and weed trampled down 27 times by the hunters, in the main they all had good luck with practically everyone getting a ljmit the first day. The second day found even more hunters out but by that time the birds were pretty well under cover and the shooting was not nearly so good. The third day was good again with not so many hunters out, but those that did go out were mainly successful in getting a limit of birds. Many fields were posted this year, and the reports from the farm ers who posted were that the hunters hunt-ers observed the posting better this year than they had done in the past. In the main it was a successful season even though the hunters walked elbow to elbow through the fields. There were plenty of birds and there are still plenty of birds left for next year. |