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Thread: EHD is now widespread and bonus tags have been decreased.

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    yeah if Insurance/Farmers have their way we wouldn't have any deer left. Our deer population where I live Parke county(my area) is way down.. used to in winter could drive my 2 mile square on roads where I live and count 150-200 deer out in the fields.. I could hunt every day and see 10-15 deer every sit now luck to see 2-3 for the most part a lot of times zero.. this year I'm probably going to fish till the middle of bow season and just bow hunt the 1st part of the rut, knee is messed up right now and cant hardly walk anyway..
    The bonus deer permits being so high hurt deer around here, there were guys killing/filling all their tags for no other reason then they just like to kill deer.
    While they didn't waste the deer(gave away)I just dont agree with killing them for pleasure of doing it, kill them to eat and leave rest alone.. jmho though.
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    its unfortunate that hunters cant joint together and limit the deer they take for a more bountiful future. never work around my area though. the farmer around me said he would eliminate all deer and the turkey if he could. my cutting back will only benefit the people he lets hunt.


    ill fault who sets the rules. whatever their reason they still make the choice.

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    I personally think your going to see a decrease in the harvest totals and if the harvest totals are close to last year it will mean tons of little deer (yearlings and bambies) killed affecting numbers for next year. I just check my deer trail cams today for the past three weeks and only 50 pics are same 6 deer, all small bambies except small 8 and med doe and this time last year, 40 or more diff. Deer on the trail cams with 6 diff large racked bucks and 3 times as many more pics with more movement out of them. I am considering not even hunting and normally I hunt the last 2 weekends of bow, all of gun and muzzloading and late season all the way tur first weekend when it’s out. This is ugly to say the least here.

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    I have seen some some big does with fawns but a lot more fawns with no big doe with them. I did see a really nice buck walking edge of a hay field just down road from my house the other day. My neighbor has at least 10 or more people hunting less then 100 acres of woods.. 6 of those are hunting 50 acres behind my house. Sometimes they are all back there at one time during gun season which is scary as heck.


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    Is EHD the same thing as CWD? We have that now in Tennessee


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    Quote Originally Posted by tcounty;[URL="tel:3900404"
    3900404[/URL]]Is EHD the same thing as CWD? We have that now in Tennessee


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    2 entirely different diseases. Quick read.
    EHD and CWD: What’s the Difference? | QDMA

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    [QUOTE=dbowling;[URL="tel:3900403"]3900403[/URL]]I have seen some some big does with fawns but a lot more fawns with no big doe with them. I did see a really nice buck walking edge of a hay field just down road from my house the other day. My neighbor has at least 10 or more people hunting less then 100 acres of woods.. 6 of those are hunting 50 acres behind my house. Sometimes they are all back there at one time during gun season which is scary as heck.


    I never complain as I have a more than a couple of thousand acres of rugged hilly, rocky, steep, cut over woods with elevations of 900 plus ft. I seldom see another hunter, but a real pain to get a downed deer out of.
    Sometime 1.5 to 2 miles from nearest road also.

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    If your signed up at DNR’s website like I am and a ton of other hunters we get emails from DNR and information about hunting and fishing. One email I received from DNR was if you harvested a deer and it was thought to be diseased, call them and they would direct the hunter to the nearest station as DNR would like to test them by taking samples from the harvested deer. A friend of mine bow hunting today south of Patoka Lake in Dubois Co. shot a doe and when he got out of the stand, found it to thin and sick looking, called DNR and they directed him to the nearest biological check station at Patoka Lake. He gutted the doe, dragged it and loaded it into his truck. When he got to the check station, they wanted to charge him 62.00 to have it tested. Needless to say, he told them where to stick the deer. Just a warning if you want to accommodate Our DNR’s request on having deer to check for diseases.

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    that's low wow! I wonder how many people tell them the same thing. like feed the hungry if you pay the butcher. I don't even pay a butcher for my own deer.

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    He burnt a tag to accommodate DNR on the phone, argued with the I will call it the biological disease check station after they wanted to charge the 62 bucks. Told them he would never bring them another sample. Told them he was trashing the sick punny deer and not eating it, then they wanted and took a sample anyhow when finding out he wasn’t paying. And so he asked them just out of curosity how long it would be before they got the test results back and they would email them to him also. It would be after first of Jan. Now I am saying, would I want to store wild game in my freezer 4 to 5 months to get test results back before deciding to eat??? This is our DNR.

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