New Missouri Deer Regs?

[SwampCat]

I have heard some folks say hardly anything eats an ehd killed deer. I dont know about a cwd deer - but there is no shooting a deer this eve and recovering tomorrow morn unless you are cooking bone broth. Pic below is what a single trapper caught in one day in Arkansas yesterday

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

WI. My land in MN isn't in a CWD zone...yet. Only a matter of time I'm sure.

If your mn place isn’t a cwd one yet, you should have more than a decade or more of relatively normal hunting. Hopefully longer.

My home county is under 1% and my south place county is around 6%. When I bought that a couple years ago, I wasn’t concerned about cwd as I hadn’t heard of population dropping at that time. In hindsight, I wish I bought land a county or two farther north to buy more time.

 

[Brian662]

If your mn place isn’t a cwd one yet, you should have more than a decade or more of relatively normal hunting. Hopefully longer.

My home county is under 1% and my south place county is around 6%. When I bought that a couple years ago, I wasn’t concerned about cwd as I hadn’t heard of population dropping at that time. In hindsight, I wish I bought land a county or two farther north to buy more time.

I'll be perfectly honest, six months ago I wasn't very concerned with the disease. Having had two deer I harvested test positive (for the first time) and my direct neighbor's buck also be positive, it has caused me to dig a lot deeper into this. I haven't liked what I've gotten for feedback from landowners, realtors, and reading reports.

If I had to guess, I have about 5 good years left in WI before a 4 year old buck is scarce on my land, and that's a devastating thought considering my average harvest age for bucks has been between 5 and 6 year olds for the past 4 years.

 

[Bill]

I'll be perfectly honest, six months ago I wasn't very concerned with the disease. Having had two deer I harvested test positive (for the first time) and my direct neighbor's buck also be positive, it has caused me to dig a lot deeper into this. I haven't liked what I've gotten for feedback from landowners, realtors, and reading reports.

If I had to guess, I have about 5 good years left in WI before a 4 year old buck is scarce on my land, and that's a devastating thought considering my average harvest age for bucks has been between 5 and 6 year olds for the past 4 years.

Might be just what we need to return the glory days of Deer hunting and shooting a spike and cracking a beer. If so I’m glad to be a genD and blessed to see both…

Maybe they'll talk about us dummies some days.

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[Hoytvectrix]

I'll be perfectly honest, six months ago I wasn't very concerned with the disease. Having had two deer I harvested test positive (for the first time) and my direct neighbor's buck also be positive, it has caused me to dig a lot deeper into this. I haven't liked what I've gotten for feedback from landowners, realtors, and reading reports.

If I had to guess, I have about 5 good years left in WI before a 4 year old buck is scarce on my land, and that's a devastating thought considering my average harvest age for bucks has been between 5 and 6 year olds for the past 4 years.

What are realtors saying?