CO Deer Hunt
03-31-2016, 01:16 PM
#1
Spike
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Denver
Posts: 8
CO Deer Hunt
I put in my application online today, finally, for this fall. I'm hoping to draw my first choice GMU 86 as I helped a friend bag out a muley from that area last year.
I noticed that CWD seems to be spreading more across our state, and that 86 was made a CWD unit this year albeit <1% of deer tested had it. How many CO hunters out there (or non-CO-hunters) still bother hunting deer now, have you switched to Elk and Pronghorn or do you still hunt deer in CWD units and just get yours tested?
I noticed that CWD seems to be spreading more across our state, and that 86 was made a CWD unit this year albeit <1% of deer tested had it. How many CO hunters out there (or non-CO-hunters) still bother hunting deer now, have you switched to Elk and Pronghorn or do you still hunt deer in CWD units and just get yours tested?
03-31-2016, 06:22 PM
#3
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 2
I hunt deer in a CWD unit and have never bothered getting a CWD test. The CDC has a lot of information on the disease. http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/6/03-1082_article I have read through the material and decided, for myself, that the risk of transmission to humans is low to non-existent. Everyone needs to make their own decision on the matter but I feel safe with it. I do avoid the brain and spine as much as possible.
By the way, elk can carry CWD as well as deer.
By the way, elk can carry CWD as well as deer.
04-01-2016, 06:42 AM
#4
Spike
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Denver
Posts: 8
Originally Posted by PeakBagger
I hunt deer in a CWD unit and have never bothered getting a CWD test. The CDC has a lot of information on the disease. http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/6/03-1082_article I have read through the material and decided, for myself, that the risk of transmission to humans is low to non-existent. Everyone needs to make their own decision on the matter but I feel safe with it. I do avoid the brain and spine as much as possible.
By the way, elk can carry CWD as well as deer.
By the way, elk can carry CWD as well as deer.
04-02-2016, 08:37 AM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Rifle, Colorado
Posts: 2,012
my self education on CWD doesn't have me worried about hunting in a gmu with it. I only cut meat from bone (not through bone), and don't eat brains. None of this because I'm afraid of CWD, I just never have anyway.
04-03-2016, 06:21 AM
#8
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 9,230
Same here. I bone them where they hit the ground and pack out nothing but edible meat. On a side note how is the deer herd on Coulter Mesa? I used to hunt a lot of mulies up there with my family. Used to be some really nice bucks up there.
04-04-2016, 06:45 AM
#9
Spike
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Denver
Posts: 8
I also bone out where they rest, I haven't gotten anything worth hanging on the wall yet. Looks like I'll be heading to Afghanistan in July though so there goes this year's hunting season. Good luck to the rest of you!
04-04-2016, 08:42 AM
#10
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 9,230
That sucks. Been there, done that, got the chest candy to prove it. Keep your head down. Put in for points. i always did that even if I couldn't get there to hunt. That's how I got most of my 21 points for elk. Retire as soon as you can and enjoy life.
