Discussion of CWD

[AJMD429]

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This seemed informative.

https://youtu.be/18-sVWUIwLE

Anyone on here seen much CWD...?

[Mark in MO]

Here in Missouri we are beginning to see more cases. Actually 2 years ago I had the privilege, so to speak, of taking the first confirmed case of CWD in Barton County MO. This was the first year they'd begun testing in our county. Since then they've had more cases. Not sure about other's experiences but my buck looked and acted normal. He was making a scrape when I shot him and appeared perfectly healthy.
After confirming CWD the Conservation department collected my deer from the processor and took it to Columbia MO to be incinerated. Interestingly, upon mentioning the processor had planned to incinerate any infected deer the MDC agent explained, "They can't get it hot enough to kill the prions. Columbia is the nearest incinerator that can get hot enough."

[AJMD429]

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Prions are strange.

You can't kill them - because they aren't alive...!!!

But they are deadly.

All they are is "misfolded proteins"....but they cause OTHER proteins to mis-fold. Kina creepy.

[Malamute]

It has affected my interest in hunting to a significant degree, CWD has been found all over the state.

[JBowen]

It has affected my interest in hunting to a significant degree, CWD has been found all over the state.

The same for me. We have it here in Northwestern Arkansas and every year for the last 4 or 5 years the CWD Zones has increased.
I still hunt but I when I kill one I make sure to send the head in to get tested and I don't eat any of the meat until I get the results back. Still makes me wonder if it's safe to eat.

JBowen

[Mark in MO]

Same here. The last year or so I have lost a lot of my desire to deer hunt. And I too won't eat any deer that hasn't been tested.

[Griff]

I spent the 1st 45 minutes of the video searching the internet for definition of terms and such. Sounds a lot like Mad Cow Disease for deer. but, still more to learn... Kinda disheartening when the experts are baffled. It sounds also like we're decades behind in the research.

[ollogger]

I can relate to quit hunting deer or Elk, SE Wyoming is the wost place for it in Wyo. ive shot 8 deer that looked healthy & wiley but tested for cwd, that was 8 out of 10 that was tested, dont have a clue how the other 10
might have tested as i didnt have them tested & the game & fish draged their the feet on testing stations





ollogger

[Paladin]

An ongoing battle in TX.

https://www.publicdomain.media/p/ted-nu ... years-long

[Lastmohecken]

I live in NW Arkansas, on the edge of the CWD zone, far western Madison Co. I have had several deer tested over the past few years and so far, none have come back positive. But I don't trust taking a deer to the butcher shop, because they don't worry about CWD, and if you order summer sausage, they always mix your meat and everyone else's meat together to make a batch, so you don't get you own meat back. I do all of my own butchering of deer and I pretty much always have, but now days, for me, it's not an option. And like this year, and all previous years, I write down on each package of deer meat, which deer it was and the year. That way, if one should come back positive for CWD, I can remove that deer from the freezer and not have it mixed up with other deer meat.

I did see one scrawny looking doe, the other day, and I probably should have killed it but let it run off before I made up my mind. I didn't want to burn a deer tag on it, but I should have killed it and had it tested.