MN deer harvest

Drooling, loss of hair, stumbling, and other erratic behavior would be obvious signs.

I’ve never seen a deer with it in person.

gimruis wrote:

It’s not an airborne thing. Humans can only get infected with it through direct contact with the prions or by consuming portions of the animal that has it.

Contact with infected tissue is the only known way of transmission but all science on this also states there may be other methods of transmission that are not currently understood. Both people and animals acquire prion diseases and yet have no known exposure to infected tissue, so how did they get it? Herbivores like cows and deer do not consume or come in contact with infected tissue, so there must be something more to this than we currently know.

And as I said, I’m NOT in the business of taking chances with a prion disease. It’s a terrible disease and 100% fatal.

TheFamousGrouse wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Michael Best wrote:</div>
Last year there were roughly 10,000 deer harvested during muzzleloader.
It’s looking like we will surpass last years umbers with the remaining seasons that are left.

Just looking at the harvest data today. MN is currently at 154,000 obviously with seasons still ongoing.

So despite all this “DNR mismanagement” and DNR/insurance company secret collusion to eliminate deer from all of Minnesota, we are now at a harvest rate that is greater than or very close to equal to the harvest rates in 10 of the last 12 years.

The only harvest that is significantly greater in that time period was in 2017 with 167,000 deer harvested.

Yes, there will ALWAYS be areas that for some reason have below-average numbers. But to me, as a state-wide number, I would say this looks to be an pretty average deer season as far as harvest numbers.

Just a quick correction: If we are referencing the same comparable statistic from the harvest report, there were 197,000 deer harvested in 2017.
I hunt up in the 130 zones north of Duluth. We had a pretty good season, most folks are pretty pleased with what we saw this year. The deer were really moving on opening morning. If you batch the four 130 zones together buck harvest should be ~10% up from last year.
It’s been pretty damn cold this week, but we have essentially no snow pack. Another mild to avg. winter and the trend back towards 2017 numbers should continue.
I’m also very involved in moose population monitoring and I’m very curious to see how those big critters will respond to these winters and wildlife interspecies dynamics.

that’s the last few months of the disease as they starve to death because they forget to eat/drink. There’s no outward sign for the first couple of years until that starts happening.

gimruis wrote:

Drooling, loss of hair, stumbling, and other erratic behavior would be obvious signs.

I’ve never seen a deer with it in person.

me either. Every deer that I’ve come in contact with that’s been harvested has looked perfectly healthy, cept for the bullet holes!