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Show Utah To Have Annual Antelope Hunting Season So successful was Utah's first regulated antelope hunt, it may become a permanent addition to the Beehive State's parade of fall hunting seasons. Practically all who participated participat-ed in the Clay Basin and Brown's Park antelope hunt last week succeeded in bagging a prong-horn prong-horn by the end of the second day, according to Director Ross 'Leonard of the Utah Fish and Game Commission. "There are enough herds in those areas to warrant a limited open season every year if these antelope continue to thrive as they have in the past", said Leonard. Among those who had reported, report-ed, 40 of the 50 permit holders accounted for 23 bucks and 17 does. In Brown's Park, Commissioner Commis-sioner Jack Clay of the Utah Fish and Game Commission dropped the buck with the biggest big-gest antler spread, 14 1-8 inches. The world's record spread is 20 5-16 inches taken in Arizona in 1899. Earl Lloyd's 107V4 pound buck was the heaviest taken in Brown's Park. One of the largest animals fell to the markmanship of 17-year-, old Monte Kelson of Magna who i neglected to take measurements, although he estimated the buck's weight at 150 pounds. I The hunters were unanimous in their conclusions that the antelope ant-elope is the most deceptive running run-ning target of any big game, because be-cause of its great speed, estimated estimat-ed variously from 40 to 60 miles per hour. |