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    brock ratcliff replied to the thread 2025 EHD?.
    Sighting Mrex again; he told me a few are surviving. And those that do all have the patchy coat you described. It makes it appear...
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    brock ratcliff reacted to bigten05's post in the thread Joshs 2025 journal with Like Like.
    Got some good ones still showing up and a few in ky also we will be headed back down next weekend to see if we can put some velvet down...
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    We ended up going to the state shoot today It is a nice course and the weather was great
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    brock ratcliff replied to the thread 2025 EHD?.
    It is. Mrex is not a biologist. He was not speaking on behalf of anyone at the DoW, just a guy that based the numbers from previous...
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    brock ratcliff replied to the thread 2025 EHD?.
    Mrex asked me to pass along the deer found July 4th were actually tested and confirmed.
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    brock ratcliff reacted to Wiley E Coyote's post in the thread 2025 EHD? with Like Like.
    That's how the herd grew so fast in the 80s. The Western side of Ohio had no deer in the early 70s. I grew up in Greene county and our...
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    brock ratcliff replied to the thread 2025 EHD?.
    And yes, Nimrod means hunter. Wtf?
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    brock ratcliff replied to the thread 2025 EHD?.
    I thought I clarified that; it is not my intention to KILL deer, it is my intention to have hunted deer in all 88 counties. And I am...
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    If anyone has an established clover plot, now would be a great time to mow it one last time before the bow opener. Moisture and cool...
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    brock ratcliff replied to the thread 2025 EHD?.
    We also had an outbreak in 22, but our deer did not start dying until the first of September. Athens county had a full month and a...
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    brock ratcliff replied to the thread 2025 EHD?.
    That’s a fact. And before anyone claims that what I have is only anecdotal evidence, I’ll just go ahead and say that anecdotal...
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    brock ratcliff replied to the thread 2025 EHD?.
    My answer is simple; act like you give at least a little bit of a crap about the resource. In 22, Athens county had a massive...
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    brock ratcliff replied to the thread 2025 EHD?.
    Wva is having an outbreak too. An area I hunt in Kentucky got hammered a few years back and there isn’t an ag field for miles in any...
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    brock ratcliff reacted to switchhitter's post in the thread cold shot with Like Like.
    I have pickle buckets of arrows and there is always room for more 🤣
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    brock ratcliff replied to the thread Sharp heads.
    They look slick, as they should. Well done.