Show What's hats Doing in inTHE inTHE in- in THE GREAT OUTDOORS By By Stan Taggart Did you rou see e the Previews of ol Walt Disney's new movie on Disneyland Dis Di- neyland a couple of weeks we ago agol The new length full-length feature Perri Perrl documents document the adventurous life of a squirrel It was filmed In Utah's high This latest nature study of Disney's required four tour top naturalists na na- and photographers three years of patient and miles of film TIle The Utah State Fifth and antS dame ame Commission slon ts to toward the formulation of a three three man man t in each of Utah's counties counties coun coun- ties des which would serve ern to improve Improve improve im Im- prove sportsman landowner department relations Each Bach committee would consist of one man representing the counE county's coun coun- i E tys ty's landowners one man mD appointed appoint appoint- t ed by its Us sportsmen and the third a member r of the Fish and Game Commission likely the local game fame warden Such a committee they feel feet could Iron out ut dIH difference cea and and make recommendations recommendation regarding regarding regard regard- ing the Individual hunting teacon tea tea- con sons IOna The Oame Game Commission has printed triangular signs which tress this thre way three ay relationship relationship relationship relation relation- ship and according to Gil The signs are available a to landowners if if they think they can use em HI help put em up tip too Conservation Officer Gil Porter advises Be Beaure ure to attach and LOCK your deer tag Therell There'll be a lot lotof lotof of cf boys watching this year year year- strange range ones one too We understand violators of the above law will pay 2 25 26 bucks this season season know that our fair state consistently year after year tops the nation with its huge deer harvest 1 Last fall tall were legally killed within Utah's boundaries know that per cent of 0 of Utah's Utah Utah's hunters brought home venison In 1956 success ratio wa a much y II h higher of course know that the finest buck buckin buckin in fu Utah's history was wait taken li right here in M organ Morgan rg County e z t Th That t his splendidly antlered h head ad h has s been reproduced onto our Fish and Game Commissions Commission's official emb emblem em 1 I Well Its It's true The The- There re record ord head now a prized possession of Gilbert Glibert Francis was asta taken en from fron froL Coat Lost C Creek fc In 1930 by a sheepherder name of John KII KM- foyr N Now w rating the worlds world's sixteenth sixteenth sixteenth six six- ranking Mule deer in an an- size tier according to the Boone and Crockett Clubs Club's Committee on Records of ot North American Big Dig Game Gilberts Gilbert's beautiful trophy bas has an antler spread of 47 inches Of the fifteen higher ranking heads beads 4 were taken In Colorado 3 in Wyoming 3 In Arizona 1 I in Montana 1 In Mexico 1 in Idaho and andl in Oregon Not one of ot these bucks lucks came within inches how how- e that Lost Creek monsters inch 47 h- h spread The worlds world's top ranking mule deer head according to Boone Joone and Crocketts Crockett's standards of at measurement meas rot measurement ure nent was shot in n Wyoming in 1885 It t had only a inch spread d. d The B. B C C C. Club makes more complex me measurements on a single game head than are involved involved in in- din In an entire Miss America Contest hence Contest hence the widest sacked may not necessarily be judged the best How did sheepherder Kilfoyle luck into the antlered massively mullet According to one of ot his old friends John watched that big buck all summer lummer He herd herdin In fer Francis Francia He found that th ol of buck wa wu spendin most mOlt of It Its time In M a h hOD o g n y time In M Mahogany a hog a n y y Coal Holler an Beaverdam ISo i So In the fall when its horns got Kot all slick sUck n puny John snuck up thara n nailed it Believe it or not that buck In poor shape shape not not a tooth In Its Hs head bead ribs a out But But Dut man what horns horn 1 I John cut off its Ita head left head left the rest of tin im right whar he laid Wanna compare your kill with the beet beat Heres Here's more statistics f rn en n big buck Number of points left 10 right 11 Length of ot outside curve curves left 30 4 right i 29 Circumference of main main beams beam left 6 5 78 8 rl right t. t 5 6 Widest antlered whitetail deer ever killed was a puny 33 inches British IMS-British Columbia Widest antlered Blacktail on record re re- record I cord cord measured a teeny 23 In In- In ches 1927 Tehama 1927 Tehama County Calif Cam ornia we may not have Idaho's Idaho fishing Wyoming Wyoming's elk and pronghorn populations population or South Dakotas Dakota pheasants BUT BUTMAN BUTMAN BUTMAN MAN WE GOT DEER I Well to-do to hunters such as Ernie Ford Howard Hill Guy Madison and Cornell Wilde Wilde- I those who have their pick of the I deer country always country always pick Utah Or Or if you happen onto a mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain Jl lion n and are still BUll thinking in 11 terms of size It may interest you to know that the largest cougar cougar cougar cou cou- gar on record was killed kilted i in Meeker Meek Meek- er Colorado In 1901 by Theodore Roosevelt Teddy's big cat measured measured measured meas meas- 9 5 16 from tip Up of nose to tip Up of taU tall The president ex-president has lias bagged seven of ot Americas America's top 62 mountain mountain moun moun- tain lions I I ISam Sam the sad station agent creaks The only thing Utah has has has' Texas I Is the Great Salt Lake Lake and and If them durn Texans eo could ld tuck auck as hard althey as al they kin BLOW they'd have that tool tool STAN |