Off Topic: Deer Herd To Be Destroyed
06-19-2015, 02:10 PM
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Boone & Crockett
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Off Topic: Deer Herd To Be Destroyed
Check out the article about the World Class Whitetails preserve at the link below.
That must be a tough place to hunt with only "a herd of close to 800 deer on his three farms covering more than 200 acres". I wonder what people were paying to "hunt" a World Class deer.
http://www.the-daily-record.com/loca...20BMOhyI.email
That must be a tough place to hunt with only "a herd of close to 800 deer on his three farms covering more than 200 acres". I wonder what people were paying to "hunt" a World Class deer.
http://www.the-daily-record.com/loca...20BMOhyI.email
06-19-2015, 02:49 PM
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Dominant Buck
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800 deer on 200 acres ... that would be good odds. But it looks like they have CWD so I am sure that is why the order to destroy was made. Our DNR did a mass cleaning of the deer herds when CWD was found in our state. And they still have not completely solved it.
06-20-2015, 04:11 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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Yeah... pet a pet!
We've dealt with CWD for years also in both WV & VA. CWD is just another disease that has always been around. Its only since trophy whitetail hunting became such a big money business did anyone start caring. All of the sudden it became a "big problem".
A perfect example is this pet a pet place....people pay thousands of dollars to go shoot a "trophy" that is penned in. Man, that is hunting
I personally believe its just another one of God's ways of dealing with nature and population control. This isn't the first place that will have its herd destroyed, and likely won't be the last. Anytime you take that many wild animals and put them in that close of quarters, it don't take much for problems to arise for the whole herd.
06-20-2015, 04:15 AM
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I live in the only area where bTB is in the herd. They've been trying for decades to eradicate it and have only been able to control it. Doe tags are basically unlimited, yet the bucks are the primary carriers 
06-23-2015, 06:11 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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06-23-2015, 06:15 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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I agree that this is a disease that has been around for a long time. So what the scientific pin heads are telling us is if we have a disease, we should wipe out the entire heard? Does that go for humans also??? I think not. Why don't they work on fixing this problem with a more intelligent approach.
Sorry, I say let the disease run it's course or come up with a vaccine!! Now that's a novel approach.
Sorry, I say let the disease run it's course or come up with a vaccine!! Now that's a novel approach.
06-23-2015, 08:35 AM
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