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Fewer buck deer permits available for hunts this fall

Last updated Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 3:38pm

Even though the overall number of deer in Utah is going up, the number of general buck deer permits available for hunts in Utah this fall is going down.

Last week, the Utah Wildlife Board approved a decrease of nearly 2,000 permits for this year compared with last year. A total of 84,600 general deer permits will be available for 2013, down from 86,500 in 2012.

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Fewer buck permits proposed for fall deer hunt

Jeff DeMoss Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 2:25pm

Wildlife biologists are recommending a modest decrease in the number of permits available to hunt buck deer in Utah this fall, but they’re still looking for public input on the matter.

After surveying the herds from the ground and the air, and analyzing data collected from hunters — data that provides important information about how big game animals are doing in Utah — the biologists are ready to share their big-game hunting permit recommendations for this fall’s hunts.

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Hunter bags deer in Walmart parking lot

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 4:37pm

BLAIRSVILLE, Pa. -- They say you can get almost anything at Walmart. But the Pennsylvania Game Commission says one deer hunter took it too far.

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Tennessee pastor’s good deed produces deer of a lifetime

Bryan Brasher Memphis Commercial Appeal, Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Friday, December 21, 2012 - 3:42pm

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Larry West went deer hunting looking to do a simple good deed.

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(Oct 12, 2012)There won't be a hunting season for Duane Klein and his son Jaxsen look at the body of a dead white tail deer on their land in rural Clinton County, Mich. on Oct. 12, 2012. Michigan's Department of Natural Resources reported that the outbreak of epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) has produced more than 8,500 confirmed deer deaths in Michigan this year. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Dale G. Young )

Disease kills thousands of deer

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 9:38am

LANSING, Mich. — Officials say an insect-spread deer disease has been found in at least 29 Michigan counties and is to blame for the deaths of more than 10,400 deer in the state.

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Mild winter improves Utah hunting odds

Jeff DeMoss Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 3:52pm

It’s time once again for the most popular hunt in Utah, and the people who keep track of deer populations in the state say there’s plenty to go around when the general deer hunt begins on Saturday.

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Cache town OKs deer hunt within city limits

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 9, 2012 - 5:25pm

HIGHLAND — A bumper crop of deer has prompted a Utah town to pass an ordinance allowing deer hunting within the city limits.

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Mild winter increases deer hunting odds in Utah

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, August 17, 2012 - 3:03pm

Utah’s general archery buck deer hunt, the first major hunt of the year in Utah, starts on Saturday — and because of this year’s weather, the deer should be plentiful and concentrated around water sources.

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A deer on Antelope Island Tuesday, November 16, 2011. A hunting party is on the Island in search of trophy dear and big horn sheep after a competitive bid process awarded a very few permits to hunt trophy deer and big horn sheep on the island. (photo by Matthew Arden Hatfield)

Board adopts rule allowing hunt limits and dates on Antelope Island

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, August 9, 2012 - 7:03am

ANTELOPE ISLAND — The Utah State Parks and Recreation Board has adopted a rule allowing it to annually set the dates and the harvest limits for the Antelope Island mule deer and bighorn sheep hunts.

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Utah Wildlife Board approves 500 less deer tags than 2011

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 2:14pm

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Wildlife Board has set a quota of 86,500 buck mule deer permits for the upcoming season, down 500 from last year.

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Officials target buck hunting permit numbers

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 6:40pm

OGDEN -- Because of a new management plan adopted late last year, wildlife officials in Utah are recommending a small reduction in the total number of permits issued to hunt buck deer in the state this fall.

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Texas' hunting season for white-tailed deer draws to a close this month. Normally Billy Powell would be counting his profits from catering to "hornographers," hunters who will pay as much as $100,000 to bag a monster buck with impressive headgear.

Smuggling scandal brings down Texas deer hunt breeders

Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, January 30, 2012 - 4:10pm

NEW SUMMERFIELD, Texas -- Texas' hunting season for white-tailed deer draws to a close this month. Normally Billy Powell would be counting his profits from catering to "hornographers," hunters who will pay as much as $100,000 to bag a monster buck with impressive headgear.

Instead, the 78-year-old deer breeder is under house arrest and wearing an ankle monitor.

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Wyoming bill would allow baiting of deer, other big game

Ben Neary The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 13, 2012 - 5:16pm

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is pushing to change state law to allow baiting of big game animals, a tactic it says could allow hunters to lure nuisance whitetail deer away from towns to spots where it would be safe to shoot them.

The Legislature's Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee is sponsoring a bill in the legislative session that starts next month at the request of the game department.

In addition to giving the state Game Commission authority to bait wildlife, the proposed bill would simplify state law in regard to what specific weapons are allowed for hunting particular game animals.

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DWR patrols Utah ranges for poachers

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 3:21pm

The arrival of winter means deer in Utah are migrating to low-elevation winter ranges, providing ample opportunity for wildlife watchers to view the stately mammals.

However, it also provides some of the best opportunities for poachers because the deer are more concentrated and less wary than in other seasons.

Wildlife officials in the state are aware of this, and are stepping up enforcement efforts in response. This winter, Division of Wildlife Resources conservation officers and members of sportsman's groups are carrying out the largest winter range patrols ever conducted in the state.

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Antlers go every which way on Clays' odd rack

Bobby Cleveland The Clarion-Ledger

Last updated Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 7:39pm

JACKSON, Miss. -- When he first saw the antlers, taxidermist Ellis Soloman called it "a pineapple rack."

And Mark Clay says trying to measure the buck his son Will Clay, 14, killed on the opening morning of the youth gun season Nov. 5 "is like trying to score a briar thicket."

The 15-point fits all those descriptions, and more. It has antlers sprouting in seemingly every direction.

Its left main beam, where most of the atypical growth is located, is difficult to discern.

It has not been scored, but, nonetheless, it is a trophy, and a story worth sharing.

Using hay bales for a make-shift blind in the middle of a five-acre pasture on family land in Madison County, father and son were hoping to see the big buck Mark Clay had spotted during scouting.

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