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Our state g&f agency offered a 75% cost share on hog traps for one year. We also have USDA trappers that come to your land and trap. I cant remember if you live on your land - but night time thermal hunting can keep them at bay - and provide a lot of sporting activity - but as said above -...

What has Iowa done to in response to cwd besides restrict transport. Any cwd related hunting restrictions?

The one deer I had here ten years ago that had ehd was really poor end of August. We saw him several times - he was not nearly As alert as other deer and we could approach within forty feet of him. Even my wife commented the yotes were going to get him. How they didnt, I have no idea. I almost...

I do remember several folks on this forum saying not much eats ehd killed deer

I can throw a deer carcass out in the afternoon and by noon the next day, the only thing left is a flat spot in the grass. I wouldnt doubt by the time a deer gets visibly sick, the coyotes have already caught and killed it. I have got a picture of one sick deer since game cams became a thing...

Most states were sampling at least some before they knew they had cwd. Arkansas was for sure. Pretty sure I read where GA was. Obviously, once they find cwd, he sampling rate picks up. In AR, the first cwd I beleve was found in an elk. Ground zero for cwd in AR - coincidently - just happens to...

It is a combination of both. The larger landowners I know around me average harvest is a deer per 500 acres. The larger landowners see the biggest benefit n passing deer and they pass the most. If your deer density drops from a deer per five acres to a deer per six acres you just lost 20% of...

I know someone who hunts there - on public land - and he said it is tough to see a deer now. That is probably more due to the relaxed hunting regs than deer cwd deaths. Private land owners with sunstantial holdings still have a lot of deer - but it is not an area where there are many 1000 acre...

When it all comes out, this study is going to be very interesting - and yes - maybe very disturbing. The G&F thought process - keep allowing baiting during season to aid in hunter success, to help reduce deer density. As far as the mineral sites. Cattle ranchers on both sides of me freely use...

AR has a so call early season or “velvet season”. Mature bucks are known to carry a higher prevalence of cwd and they also tend to move around a lot. A “velvet season”, with APR - gives hunters the feeling they are hunting something special - when really they are hunting the bigger bucks with...

This is the first year it has hit. It happens quick. I would guess a third is dead no leaves, a third has lost most leaves, and a third still looks ok - it just doesnt know it yet. There is still tons of young from a foot tall to twenty feet tall.

I was told fifteen years ago eab was 30 miles from my place. I should have had someone cut my 70 acres of ash the next day. I would have been 15 years ahead of this mess that is quickly developing - and no logger will touch it

Last year - both antler tips bent down. I hunted him pretty hard last year up into mid winter In the same area this year, I am getting pictures of this buck. If you cut those drop antler tips off from last year, I think he would be an exact match. Our deer tend to lose points as they pass...

Me and grand daughter number four had some success. Not only did she shoot it, she did a heck of a job on a very difficult tracking job - along with her mother - and then after running out of blood - spotted it in a brush pile. I think her momma has picked up some tracking skills from spending a...