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Show 4 First Game Bird Hunt Starts In Area Saturday Utah's game bird season opens at 8 a.m. Saturday and hunters in Duchesne County will generally have only five days to try for quail, pheasant and cbuker partridge. part-ridge. In Duchesne county, the hunt is limited to two weekends, starting start-ing at 7:00 each morning after opening day and closing at 5:30. Hunting days are Saturday, Sun-dany Sun-dany and Monday, Nov. 10-11-12, and Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 17 and 18. This applies to Duchesne, Du-chesne, Daggett and Uintah counties. coun-ties. Hunts for quail, hungarian partridge part-ridge and chukar partridge will run concurrently with the pheasant pheas-ant season in each county where hunting for any of these ' three game bird species is scheduled. Pheasant Season The pheasant season is set for three days duration in Beaver, Garfield, Grand, Iron, Kane, Piute, San Juan, Sevier, Washington and Wayne counties. For 5 days in Box Elder, Cache, Carbon, Davis, Emery, Juab, Millard, Mil-lard, Morgan, Rich, Salt Lake, Sanpete, San-pete, Summit, Tooele, Utah, Wasatch Was-atch and Weber. For two weekends, week-ends, Nov. 10-11-12 and Nov. 17-18, 17-18, in Daggett, Duchesne and Uintah counties. Counties open to quail huting are Grand, Piute, San Juan, Washington, Wash-ington, Wayne, Carbon, Emery, Davis, Morgan, Salt Lake, Summit, Utah, Wasatch, Weber, Duchesne and Uintah. Hungarian partridge may be hunted in Box Elder, Cache and (Continued on Classified Page) GAME BIRDS (Continued from page one) Rich counties. Chukar partridge will be legal game in Grand, San Juan, Carbon, Emery, Daggett, Duchesne and Uintah counties. . Only cock pheasants may be legally taken, with the bag limit being three birds, the possession limit six. In the case of the quail, Hungarian Hung-arian and chukar hunts, birds of either sex may be taken. The bag limit for quail is eight birds, possession pos-session sixteen. For hungarian and chukar partridge the bag is three, possession six. Separate Limits , Limits of each species are separate sep-arate and apart. In other words, a hunter may hunt for and possess legal limits of each of the four birds provided he takes them in counties open to such hunting. Shooting ends each day at 5:30 p.m. and opens at 7:00 a.m. each day following the 8:00 a.m. opening open-ing on Saturday, Nov. 10. More than 80,000 gunners are expected to be afield for these hunts, according to the department of fish and game. Field reports show average or better than normal norm-al numbers fob birds in most of the state. Hunters were reminded that these hunts are held primarily upon private lands, most of hem being heavily cultivated as well. Future hunting on these lands depends de-pends upon how those who hunt them conduct themselves while afield. The department urged all hunters hunt-ers to respect the property and rights of the private landowner, to be careful in shooting when in the vicinity of buildings, livestock and farm equipment and to observe ob-serve all signs concerning posted lands wherever he may hunt. Sportsmen should check a copy of the 1956 pheasant proclamation for full regulations, as well as for some areas closed to upland game bird hunting in some counties. |
