Show UTAH TOPS NATION IN PEA PE CENT OF successful HUNTERS SALT LAKE CITY utah again t topped the nation in percentage of successful deer hunters ac according cordin to the results of a survey just completed by john mooney sports editor of the sam salt lake telegram analyzing reports submit submitted ted by 12 of the nations leading deer producing states mooney found that utah ranks no worse than third la in the percentage of deer killed and top tops s the nation in the 1 percentage of bucks lulled killed figures released by the utah fish and game commission show that utah hunters killed deer in 1944 hunters killed their buck for a kill percentage of per cent for all buyink buying licenses and in addition antler leso deer licenses were sold with hornless deer killed for a percentage of per cent the two states heading utah n kill hill percent percentages ages were wisconsin in ond minnesota both of which allow the killing of either sex on the big g same ame feenie in wisconsin hunters killed deer but of that total were hornless deer minnesotan Min hunters killed deer but again almost 50 per cent of the kill was hornless deer which utah figure in its table of kills the average percentage of bu buck kill in utah last fall was higher within doe hunting areas than outside a fact which hardly supports fears that ess deer hunting souad soon ruin buck hunting I 1 such is the chief observation aton of R L turpin big game supervisor m i n his memorandum to the utah fish ah and game commission and board of big game control concerning the 1944 deer kill summary turpin pointed out that success ratios have continued to hold ur UD through several years of doe hunting whereas several years ago lyre predictions were rife that two years of doe hunting in utah would wipe out the he herd considering that many big game authorities contend good management requires 25 deer on the range ranae for every buck harvested Tur pins following statement is significant too A review of kill bill records for the past pasit few years indicates that our present deer herds will supply about bucks for hunters and kills in addition to this figure come from deer it is also noted turpin added that as doe hunting has been decreased c during the past three years there has been a slight increase in bucke buck killed wether or not this is is an indication that most hunters want only one deer is not known but it is believed probable |