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Show I Sports In The Open Spaces THE DEER SEASON The state's only early rifle hunt for deer again attracted a hlost of hunters into (the Anti-mlony Anti-mlony unit area, according to game department spokesmen. . Well over 3,000 hunters were afield during this season which, began Sept. 25 and ended Oct. 10. Checking station reports show 3,089 hunters bought an exitra doe deer permit for . this deer-range problem area. The Utah Board of Big Game Control Con-trol set up isuchj permits on an unilimited (basis for this and four other hunting units in an effort to reduce deer herds to the carry capacity of the available avail-able range. The records show that 906 does were checked out on the extra tags, with 403 hunters also al-so checking, out bucks on. their regular . license and tag. .Favorable comment .concerning .concern-ing the . early Antimony hunt was expressed by many parti-patinig parti-patinig sportsmen. Some few hunters who' killed deer in poor flesh were critical of this (hunt being called. Game managers point out that suidh a condition only highlights the need to reduce this deer herd in numbers. They note the Board's action in staging the early hunt to attract sportsmen sports-men into the Antimony area in an effort ibo bring the animals to the hunter's gun rather than have continued high winter die-offs die-offs and range depletion common com-mon to the past several years. F-&-S THE ELK HUNT One late season elk hunt and two special deer seasons are all that remjain, (to be called of the fall big game units in Utah. . They are -the Ashley-Daggett elk unit; the Raft River and the Lucerne Valley special , deer hunting areas. Game officials note that weather factors and other conditions con-ditions will determine' the dates these hunts are called. All permit per-mit holders will receive written writ-ten notice five days in advance of .the hunting period. F-&-S Deer hunters afield with bow and arrow in Utah this fall reached a new high in numbers, num-bers, according to figures released re-leased by the Department of Fish and Game. Archers totaling 777 purchased pur-chased special bow permits as comipared to ibhe 623 afield during dur-ing the 1953 season. : . Figures taken from the special spe-cial bow perrnlit cards so far returned also indicate a 25 archer success compared to 15 a year ago. The higher, hunter success is attrdbuite'd . mainly to the increased in-creased number and size of the area where bow and arrow bunting was scheduled by the Utah Board of Big Game Control Con-trol this year. |