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Offline jdbbowhunter

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« Reply #45 on: September 23, 2020, 06:41:10 PM »
I believe this is a lot worse than anybody knows. Hopefully the frost has helped. Mother nature can be cruel!!

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« Reply #46 on: September 23, 2020, 07:56:37 PM »
Is it just me, or is DEC way behind on this? There was an article in the Pok Journal today about it. It was somewhat informative, but I'd like to see them get a DEC official on record about this.

The fact it may be in Hyde Park is troubling

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« Reply #47 on: September 23, 2020, 07:57:39 PM »
I believe this is a lot worse than anybody knows. Hopefully the frost has helped. Mother nature can be cruel!!

Yes, thousands are dead in the Hudson Valley. I’ve been tripping over dead deer in the woods for couple weeks now. It’s really, really bad.  Hopefully, hunters in our area show some restraint on the harvesting of does.

I’ve been e-mailing The DEC and so far they’ve tallied 450 likely EHD mortalities.

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« Reply #48 on: September 24, 2020, 07:29:08 AM »
I believe this is a lot worse than anybody knows. Hopefully the frost has helped. Mother nature can be cruel!!

Yes, thousands are dead in the Hudson Valley. I’ve been tripping over dead deer in the woods for couple weeks now. It’s really, really bad.  Hopefully, hunters in our area show some restraint on the harvesting of does.

I’ve been e-mailing The DEC and so far they’ve tallied 450 likely EHD mortalities.
wow, this is crazy, thanks for keeping us posted Yotehunter.

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« Reply #49 on: September 24, 2020, 07:57:26 AM »
at this point sounds like they should stop giving out 3m tags

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« Reply #50 on: September 24, 2020, 08:03:15 AM »
Agreed they should stop giving out more doe tags 3m. But id be willing to bet you can get more on Nov1st, with leftover tags.

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« Reply #51 on: September 26, 2020, 10:57:45 AM »
I was more hopeful a few weeks ago as I did not see it in the spots I hunt. Now one of my areas Is being hit bad. I personally have found 5 deer dead so far all in a small area. It’s very sad smelling death everywhere. I think of of my spots is safe for now, but I don’t really know. Another I haven’t found any dead deer, but it sets up right and is in the band that seems to be effected. Just keeping my fingers crossed for a good season where it doesn’t hit hard and definitely will refrain from using my 3m for tags.

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« Reply #52 on: September 26, 2020, 02:29:59 PM »
Unfortunately I get to add to this bad news channel ….. Today I found 3 dead deer within 300 feet of each other in one of my spots in Cornwall. The last few weeks I've been walking around 3p and 3m over and over again covering the same terrain and up until today have not found anything. I was last in this spot a week ago Wednesday so these have died in the last ten days since I covered the same terrain last time out. After finding the first one I felt like I was in a horror movie afraid to look around and all that was missing was the scary music. Its hard for me to say that this wont affect my bow season but probably will put all my 3m doe tags away since I always plan on donating any does but don't see how local butchers in our area can donate anything until there's a hard frost @ least …. its too bad was looking forward to donating more so this year since I figured there were more families in need of meat …. ill just focus on mature bucks that survive and hopefully there will be a real hard frost by the rut …. Ill be out opening day but probably to just get a first hand look @ whats what and doubt the bow will come off the hook …. sorry for the bad news
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« Reply #53 on: September 26, 2020, 02:33:35 PM »
Mother Nature at her finest moment what a shame

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« Reply #54 on: September 26, 2020, 02:37:45 PM »
if I ever cross paths with her she better be faster than my BEMAN
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« Reply #55 on: September 26, 2020, 05:19:46 PM »
Tough break..Reading about it, is one thing, seeing it is another. In some ways it’s awesome, to see The mechanics Of Nature at work, systematically attacking. Thoroughly ruthless.

We should be glad, us humans are not on the receiving end of that disease. Although Corona is bad, it can’t light a candle to EHD, when it comes to doing what viruses do.

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« Reply #56 on: September 26, 2020, 08:33:13 PM »
Saw this on another forum.

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« Reply #57 on: September 26, 2020, 09:09:41 PM »
something I wish none of us had to experience
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« Reply #58 on: September 26, 2020, 09:12:57 PM »
This whole thing is terrible...... frost can’t come soon enough.....
Oh Yeah !

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« Reply #59 on: September 26, 2020, 09:29:40 PM »
What would you like the DEC to do about it? 

 

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