Getting tired of these.

[Jcalder]

Odds are 80% of bucks 3.5 or older are positive. For me it's been 100%.

Is this true for all cwd areas or just Tn?

 

[BigAl]

Sorry, FC. I know that sux for you. Let me know if you need some meat, I could drop a doe for you (I think). But I'm not too far from you, but the odds should be a little better.

 

[megalomaniac]

sucks... in MS we just had a county pop positive on the coast 160mi from the nearest prior positive. It will be everywhere eventually. Ignorance is bliss

 

[JJ3]

Yes, it's either move on or change your mindset about why you hunt. Sadly, I'm a horn hunter now and see killing these bucks as an extermination service. Also, I'm saving them from a slow painful death.

Yeah, you either stay as exterminator or leave and let nature runs its course. It just really hurts me to kill something just to let it go to waste. Sounds like if 80 - 100% of 3.5 yr bucks are positive nature is well on its way to running the course. I just wish there was a way to keep it from spreading. But when you see positives pop up 50 or 100 miles north or south, it's evident that there are vectors for spreading that science just fully doesn't understand, yet. And it's too bad there is no way to hold accountable whoever brought the (those) first positive deer into that Grand Junction region.

 

[Flintlocksforme]

Yes in the last 4 years. Every buck for sure is positive and most does.

Do you find a lot of dead deer around the woods or see sick and dying ones walking around? I am north of you in Benton Co. No positive case yet

 

[Ski]

It will be everywhere eventually. Ignorance is bliss

It's already everywhere I'd guess.

 

[bowtechgump]

but was it really? or just the TWRA lying?

Remember that you have to wear your mask and keep 6' from anything that has a pulse!!!

 

[bowtechgump]

Remember that you have to wear your mask and keep 6' from anything that has a pulse!!!

Oh but I should say that all food bought at your local market is very clear from any harmful substances. (Just don't get pre-cut produce, bagged vegetables, actually any produce, meat or seafood products.)

 

[Ski]

Oh but I should say that all food bought at your local market is very clear from any harmful substances. (Just don't get pre-cut produce, bagged vegetables, actually any produce, meat or seafood products.)

Or dairy, juices, preserved foods, or really anything at all for human consumption. Chinese melamine in pet foods so don't buy that either. Aside from all that you're completely safe, no worries.

 

[bowtechgump]

Or dairy, juices, preserved foods, or really anything at all for human consumption. Chinese melamine in pet foods so don't buy that either. Aside from all that you're completely safe, no worries.

I have seen many individuals tell me how "nobody" killed or caught game to feed their family. I personally learned to hunt or fish, solely because we had to ensure that we were able to eat. I hope that you all stand up before you have the same problem.

 

[SC Manimal]

Sorry, FC. I know that sux for you. Let me know if you need some meat, I could drop a doe for you (I think). But I'm not too far from you, but the odds should be a little better.

That's cool BigAl. The world needs more people like you.

 

[gatodoc]

We had 3 positives last year out of 9 tested in Rossville just east of Collierville. This year we've had 5 test negative. Mostly younger does though.

 

[Flintlocksforme]

For sure. fairchaser is hunting at/near ground zero for CWD. It definitely adds up. If he so chose, he could drive one hour in any direction in TN, hunt, kill a deer, and significantly reduce the likelihood of a future positive.

And help thin a population to slow the spread.

 

[fairchaser]

Do you find a lot of dead deer around the woods or see sick and dying ones walking around? I am north of you in Benton Co. No positive case yet

We do pickup dead heads and see a few skeletons but the majority get shot, hit by cars or get eaten by coyotes. Very few cases on deer that appear sick and unafraid. There was a big buck in a cow pond swimming in circles in December.

 

[readonly]

Do you eat the meat from the ones that tested positive?

 

[fairchaser]

Do you eat the meat from the ones that tested positive?

No sir, I do not. I donate it to HFTH but I'm sure it is disposed of after it comes back positive.