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Show Utah Tops Nation In Percentage of Successful Hunters Salt Lake City Utah again topped the nation in percentage of successful deer hunters, according ac-cording to the results of a survey just completed by John Mooney, sports editor of the Salt Lake Telegram. Analyzing reports submitted by 12 of the nation's leading deer-producing states, Mooney found that Utah ranks no worse than third in the percentage of deer killed and tops the nation in the percentage of bucks killed. Figures released by the Utah fish and game commission show that 64,672 Utah hunters killed 51,777 deer in 1944. 40,743 hunters hunt-ers killed their buck, for a kill percentage of 62.99 for all buying licenses, and in addition, 16,320 antlerless deer licenses were sold, with 11,034 hornless deer killed for percentage of 67.61. The two states heading Utah in kill percentages were Wisconsin Wiscon-sin and Minnesota, both of which allow the killing of eith sex on the big game license. In Wisconsin. Wiscon-sin. 150,805 hunters killed 128,-296 128,-296 deer, but of that total 62,044 were hornless deer. Minnesota's 104,801 hunters killed 67,182 deer, but again, almost 50 of the kill was hornless deer, which Utah doesn't figure in its table of kills. In addition, Minnesota employs em-ploys a system of closing the season sea-son on deer every few years to build up the herds for the slaughter. slaugh-ter. Since 1935, there have been three years when no hunting, of either sex was allowed. Pennsylvania, commonly believed be-lieved to lead the nation as a deer state, trailed far behind Utah, both in kill percentages and in number of deer killed. The 1943 table shows 582,242 Pennsylvania hunters killed 23,-961 23,-961 bucks (Utahns killed 40,743 bucks) and 14,921 hornless deer (Ujtahns killed 11,034 does) for a total of 38,882 deer, as against Utah's total kill of 51,777. Utahs success percentage (and this counts only buck kills) was 62.-99 62.-99 against a 6.6 7o in Pennsylvania. |