Colorado Deer

BenHuntn

BenHuntn

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Well after spending $800 on 2 mule deer tags in Colorado and harvesting to big bucks I am supposed to throw the meat away at the landfill. Both bucks tested suspect (positive) for CWD. They are supposed to refund me my processing fee.
 
Sweet! You're getting $20 back?

And packing out those 2 bucks took 4 days and was the worst pack out of your life.
 
My budy had his buck test positive also out of unit 5 newr Wyo. He researched it a little more and told me 50% of bucks in Wisconsin are testing positive now. I wonder how bad this will get?

He was instructed to not eat the meat and throw it out.
 
CWD Meat has been being Eaten for Years!









I know so many people in so many places
They make allot of money but they got sad faces

It Ain't Easy being Me!:D:D:D
 
Eat it!
It's been around for decades and now all of a sudden people freak out.
I'm sure in our family we've eaten many and we're all still kickin...lol
 
>Eat it!
>It's been around for decades and
>now all of a sudden
>people freak out.
>I'm sure in our family we've
>eaten many and we're all
>still kickin...lol

I think if deer meat tasted like Halibut or Lobster it wouldn't matter to anyone if it CWD. It would all find it's way to the table :)
 
LAST EDITED ON Nov-27-18 AT 03:32PM (MST)[p]CWD has been around forever, now all the sudden it an epidemic... it's all a bunch of BS stirred up by some snot nosed biologist that was job scared. It's a proven fact even if positive if cooked properly it's no threat...
Sure If the animal is sickly looking don't eat it... if it's healthy just eat it...

I eat 3-4 a year from some of these areas mentioned and I don't test any of them cause quite honestly it's a scam..
I'm still just fine and not wandering around aimlessly..?
 
What unit did these bucks come from that tested positive?

-Hawkeye-

My Favorite Expo Tag Quotes:

"It is fair to ask how much comes in with the five dollar application fees and how much went onto the ground.? Don Peay of SFW during 3/31/2005 Wildlife Board Meeting.

"There will be a full accounting of how the applications fees are spent.? Don Peay of SFW - 9/26/2006 - Monstermuleys.com
 
Geezer almost forgot about CWD....it was the end of the world 20 year ago...wouldn't eat a sickly looking animal but eat everything else and don't bother with testing...
 
LAST EDITED ON Nov-27-18 AT 08:34PM (MST)[p]Wild, not sure where you dug up your info, but most of what you state is NOT true. I am a veterinarian, and an avid hunter, and it most certainly has NOT been around forever. It came to my state (Texas) first in West Texas from infected animals migrating from New Mexico and the only other cases were brought here in a trailer. I have tested plenty of deer from my personal ranch, including some sickly ones, and all are negative, as is ALL deer testing in Texas OTHER than in West Texas and close to deer farms that brought it in.

The biggest error you state is that cooking will kill it. NOT TRUE. The prions survive standard cooking temps, even well done


It is true that there has never been a documented case of transmission to humans, but it started in deer due to a mutation. Mutations happen all the time. Most of them are harmless, but that one wasn't. Chances are that good that no harm will come to you from eating CWD infected animals. If fact if you want to pay me to eat one, I would do it. But won't ever feed one I know to be infected to my kids or grandkids.

What we know about this disease scares me, but what we don't know scares me more. Currently we have NO idea how to eliminate the disease so it seems inevitable that it will eventually spread to all deer range. But it is NOT everywhere now, and I want its spread to be as slow as possible. I don't want it on my ranch any sooner than it has to be.

txhunter58

venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)
 
Benhuntin: They were refunding the tag prices too. Did they stop that? If so, I haven't heard of it.

txhunter58

venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)
 
LAST EDITED ON Nov-28-18 AT 03:51AM (MST)[p]50% of the deer in Wisconsin do not have Cwd, that is a lie. I'm from Wi and we only have Cwd in certain parts of the state.
 
I checked after reading this post. No refunds for tags testing positive any longer! That is going to make me stop hunting Colorado after using my points this coming year!.....Sageman
 
>LAST EDITED ON Nov-28-18
>AT 03:51?AM (MST)
>
>50% of the deer in Wisconsin
>do not have Cwd, that
>is a lie. I'm from
>Wi and we only have
>Cwd in certain parts of
>the state.

You are right I read the text fast and he said 50% of bucks in certain counties are testing positive for CWD in Wisconsin.

I was not trying to knock the great state of Wisconsin! "Relax" :)
 
I guess that means they were losing too much money due to numbers of positives!

txhunter58

venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)
 
You imply that these were nice big normal looking bucks? I have been hearing of more cases where they deer is totally normal, but has CWD.

So the "Don't eat them if they look sick" theory doesn't hold much water.

txhunter58

venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)
 
Past history here, but my son harvested the first moose in Colo to test positive for CWD back in 2006

This bull was the largest bull in the valley and had corralled a hot female and was actively courting her. Point that I am attempting to make, is that the physical shape of the animal is not indicative of them being infected or not. His bull appeared to be in the prime of his life as a 5 yr old bull but wasn't the case.
 
I'm in the medical field. Prions are real and bad news. Look up mad cow diseased brains. Or creutzfield jacob disease. As i recall from medical books must be transmitted from the brain tissues (brain, and spinal fluid) hard not to contaminate with a spine shot....or if u throw your cape with skull in with your meat. Spread knowledge not ignorance. We have to keep a close eye on this as a group. Not spread lies. But for the record eating it as we know will not transmit the disease. Yet......
 
LAST EDITED ON Nov-30-18 AT 06:09AM (MST)[p]CWD is a very real threat to North American cervids. There is no evidence that it has been around "forever". There is no evidence that it has ever been transmitted to humans. As a result of tightly controlled scientific experiments we do know it is possibly transmissible to felids and primates.

THESE ARE FACTS.


All hunters should be concerned about CWD.

THAT IS MY OPINION.
 
Well mr Texas veterinarian... I happen to know a couple of M.D?s that hunt and we have had many conversations on the topic.. their stanse on eating an infected animal has a almost non existent threat to a human.

However as the old saying goes:
you can always tell a Texan you just can't tell them much....
 
My deer was shot in Unit 12, just north of Meeker, second deer from this ranch that tested positive during third combined. DOW will refund "basic cut of meat" up to $200, they will not pay if you had sausage, jerky, etc. made. DOW is not refunding the cost of the tag ($396).
 
It's awful in Wisconsin, and truth be told, everyone eats venison. If you're not sucking the lymph nodes or drinking spinal fluid, I'd venture to say youre pretty safe. You're not getting out of here alive anyway ;)
 
Not saying that it will ever cross to humans, but the primates that became infected did so from eating infected MEAT

txhunter58

venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)
 
Currently, Wyoming will test any elk, deer or moose for CWD for no charge. There will be no refund of license or processing fees if they are positive. The Wyo G&F is not guaranteeing meat with the price of a license and I'm glad they are not.

My late season, healthy looking whitetail buck tested positive. He went to the dump to an approved animal pit.
 
I guess I am not smart enough to use a photo hosting service. I just save my pics to my computer or phone and then post them when I need to.

txhunter58

venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)
 
LAST EDITED ON Dec-05-18 AT 09:08AM (MST)[p]Let me know if you can see the pics of this years CWD Colorado deer.



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Tried on my desktop and my phone and neither one shows me the pictures. :-(

txhunter58

venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)
 
Nope

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