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Show Duck Hunters Get Longer Season, More Ammunition WASHINGTON. Aug. 9 Hunters will have a longer open season on ducks this fall and ammunition to shoot them with. Liberalized regulations for shooting migratory game birds were announced Wednesday by Interior Secy. Ickes, after which war production board sources estimated that about 65 of the normal ammunition supply will be available for civilian purposes pur-poses between now and Oct. 31. Last year the supply was about 12 of normal. Because the water fowl population pop-ulation is on the rise, the season will be 80 days instead of 70, and hunters will be allowed a bigger daily bag of mallards, pintails and widgeons than last season. This was pleasant news for both sportsmen and farmers, since those fast-multiplying varieties var-ieties not only are major game birds, but also wreak major destruction des-truction on crops, according to the fish and wild life service, which drew up the relations. There was bad news for some hunters who had campaigned for the use of live decoys. This practice will continue to be taboo, ta-boo, as well as the use of bait, such as corn. The W P B sources said an order or-der will be issued soon liberalizing liberal-izing the present limitation of civilian ammunition and specifying specify-ing how much an individual can obtain. 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, Wyoming and Nevada; Ne-vada; Oct, 11-Jan. 1 in the intermediate inter-mediate zone, and Nov. 2-Jan 20 farther south. Open seasons also were announced an-nounced for mourning or turtle cloves, woodcock and other migratory mig-ratory game birds. The daily bag limit of ducks remains at 10, except that each hunter is allowed an additional bag of five mallards, pintails and widgeons, singly or in the aggregate. If the day's bag includes in-cludes five or more from these species, the general limit is automatically increased to 15. A hunter, for example, could shoot 15 pintails in a day. But if he bagged only two pintails and no mallards or widgeons, his limit would be 12. |