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Show Longer Season j For Duck Hunters Hunters will have a longer open j season on ducks this fall and more j ammunition to shoot them with. Liberalized regulations for shooting migratory game birds were announced Wednesday by Interior In-terior Secy. Ickes, after which war production board sources esti- mated that aoout oa - ---- normal ammunition supply will be available for civilian purposes between be-tween now and Oct. 31. Last year the supply was about 12 percent of normal. Because the water fowl population popu-lation is on the rise, the season will be 80 days instead Of 10, and hunters will be allowed a bigger dailv bag of mallards, pintails UtVLlJ WdQ JJ. ii.M and widgeons than last season. This was pleasant news for both sportsmen and farmers, since those last-multiplying varieties not only are major game birds, but also wreak major destruction on crops, according to the fish and wild life service, which drew up the regulations. There was bad news for some hunters who had campaigned for the use of live decoys. This practice prac-tice will continue to be taboo, as j well as the use of bait, such as . corn. The W P B sources said an order or-der will be issued soon liberalizing liberaliz-ing the present limitation of civilian ci-vilian ammunition and specifying how much an individual can obtain. ob-tain. tlJ inlrc Open season on wild ducks, geese, brant and coot will be Sept. 20-Dec. 8 in the northern tier of states, which includes Utah, Idaho, Ida-ho, Wyoming and Nevada; Oct. 11-Jan. 1 in the intermediate zone, end Nov. 2-Jan. 20 farther south. Open seasons also were announced an-nounced for mourning or turle doves, woodcock and other migratory migra-tory game birds. The daily bag limit of ducks remains re-mains at 10, except that each hunter is allowed an additional bag of five mallards, pintails and widgeons, singly or in the aggregate. aggre-gate. If the day's bag includes five or more from these species, the general limit is automatically 1 Increased to 15. A hunter, for example, ex-ample, could shoot 15 pintails in a day. But if he bagged only two pintails and no mallards or widgeons, widg-eons, his general limit would be 12. |