Sgt Fury
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I didn’t realize this…in that case I have a part 2 to the question:
Why is Dustin an asshole?
EHD
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Why is Dustin an asshole?
I don't know for sure. I know some thoughts have been shared about mineral spots.
I do know that food plots and bait piles add to cotrigating deer. And this bug is a very local problem.
I personally think nature always wins. What we want as deer hunters might not be what nature wants and this is the ultimate reset.
It's both nature doing what nature does and humans enabling/exacerbating it. Hell, one of the most popular land management teachings right now is creating water sources. The experts are showing people how to create stagnant water sources where the midge can congregate and spread the disease.
I have a swamp on my property and I've found several deer skeletons in it when it dried up. I didn't know what EHD was back then.
Big_Holla
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There is a market for solar powered bubblers. Who is taking my idea? I don't need the game but a little kickback wouldn't break my heart.
On a serious note, that did cross my mind. 100% good intentioned. Helping the local herd in the hot/dry months. Or like Giles said: is it just nature balancing herself out whether we build a water hole or not?
I'm working a property around 250 acres, but really only been on about 20 acres so far focusing on an area around 2 acre pond. I've found between 8 and 11 different deer (I've honestly lost count, found so many this year different places), 4 bucks, and all but 1 appears to have died in the late summer time frame. The one today still had velvet. This is on the edge of Ross/Highland county. Id venture to say more dead deer on this property right now then live ones.
Cousins boy found this one yesterday in NW part of the state. It had been dead a long time. I would guess another victim of EHD.
Wiley E Coyote
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I'm in southern Warren county. Last September fields that are always full of deer were void. It was like every deer in the area was killed. My neighbor had a 150 class buck die in his back yard. Very depressing!! No deer around my house or on my camera's! It killed them all! Now February rolls around and those same fields are full of deer again. I mean 20 plus deer all times of the day. Six in my yard just a few days ago. I don't know what happened! I don't understand it! But very glad to see it!!
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We found one of our
Missing year and half year olds today. He disappeared first of September. Also found another doe that was likely from ehd. The entire skeleton was there, had not been disturbed. That’s a sure sign of ehd. Coyotes don’t even fool with em.
Missing year and half year olds today. He disappeared first of September. Also found another doe that was likely from ehd. The entire skeleton was there, had not been disturbed. That’s a sure sign of ehd. Coyotes don’t even fool with em.
Wiley E Coyote
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I've noticed that too. Nothing touched the buck in my neighbor's barn yard
First buck I found this year was in Warren County on a job, big double main beam. That's what made me start this thread. I expected it was going to be bad and it lived up to expectations.
Taking my last 2 stands down yesterday found 2 while on the tractor.
Wiley E Coyote
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Just talked to a good friend of mine that has a place east of Bainbridge south of US 50. He talked with some guys over the weekend that gun hunted alone Paint Creek between Jones levy Rd and Blaine highway. They found 28 dead that weekTaking my last 2 stands down yesterday found 2 while on the tractor.
Pockets along that area got hammered. ODNR is keeping the limits the same though. Also had a record harvest year
Just shows guys hunted extra hard this year to keep up with harvest. Also shows that most hunters just bitch but also really don't give a Fu** as they continue to hunt and kill. Hunter effort per deer is a very important metric that conveniently isn't kept in any serious number by DOW. Hell, they probably have more furbearer per hour information from their bowhunter furbearer questioner then they do deer per hour. I personally didn't find any EHD deer on the property i hunt (yet) but felt aweful for the the guys who got hit hard. Maybe those feelings were unwarranted if they can't police themselves. Yes, DOW should react to this but ultimately they aren't the ones making anyone pull a trigger either.
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A buddy owns and farms a big piece of that around Jones Levy. He found ten in one bean field. If your buddies discovered that many during gun season, you can only imagine how many they overlooked. The vast majority of those deer died by mid September. By October there was nothing but a black smear remaining along with a few bones.
Found bones from 2 more today..yotes scattered em pretty good but I assume from EHD they been there a long time.
