Show ENOS WITH POOR REPORTS the pheasant shooting in millard county was not up to the usual standard that the hunters haye have ell en A oyed in the past there was the argest number of hunters this year that have ever hunted here and ille he least birds shot many factors contributed to the poor hunting the fields were all oo 00 crowded tor for one thing an and edthe the rains of the summer are blamed for a poor hatch the two wo heavy rains it f the year came jast jutt at anestin nesting k time and spoiled many of the nests clows are exceptionally numerous his year and put leses the hunters seriously take up crow hunting they will do a lot pt pf damage to tha th pheas ants the crow can call eat a lot of eggs during a year as well as abeln being det to the sheep men here another factor was the rabbit shooting on the north tract dur ng the first few days of the deer eason when everyone was away dozens of punters hunters came here to shoot rabbits whether they shot any pheasants is unknown but the shoot ng near the nesting grounds of the ards drove them far out into the high brush few hunters report vary good luck ind with tl e above mentioned fac tors we must protect out pheasants better in the future or else have a closed season |