Posted: 11/6/2013 2:55:47 AM EDT
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Gents,
This year, due to my work schedule and my daughter's 2nd birthday during opening weekend of gun season, I will likely only be able to hunt Saturday Nov. 23rd. I usually hunt with a close friend, his dad and his brother. They usually hunt in Vilas Co. (St. Germain area), but they wanted to hunt a new area this year in Jefferson Co. According to DNR, all of Jefferson Co. is a CWD Management zone. I am a little apprehensive to hunt there because, although there has been no scientific proof of CWD transmission from wild game to humans (according to DNR), they recommend against consuming meat from deer in those zones until it has been tested. Where would you even get it tested and how long would it take? Would it even be worth being out in the cold all day and then dressing and processing a carcass if you may not even be able to eat it? I'd really like to get out and try to get some meat in the freezer and I don't want to bail on my buddy, but at what cost... Thoughts, opinions, experiences hunting in CWD Zones are welcome. Thanks! |
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After you harvest a deer you will have to check it in at a registration station which will collect a sample for testing. They will give you a serialized
number on a tag you will use to check the results of the test;usually within a week from my experience. As far as being worth spending the time and resources in the off chance you get a positive test on one would be up to you. I have been harvesting from the most concentrated areas of the CWD zone since 2001 and have not had a positive test yet. Having said that, I would not consume one that did test positive. |
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Gents, This year, due to my work schedule and my daughter's 2nd birthday during opening weekend of gun season, I will likely only be able to hunt Saturday Nov. 23rd. I usually hunt with a close friend, his dad and his brother. They usually hunt in Vilas Co. (St. Germain area), but they wanted to hunt a new area this year in Jefferson Co. According to DNR, all of Jefferson Co. is a CWD Management zone. I am a little apprehensive to hunt there because, although there has been no scientific proof of CWD transmission from wild game to humans (according to DNR), they recommend against consuming meat from deer in those zones until it has been tested. Where would you even get it tested and how long would it take? Would it even be worth being out in the cold all day and then dressing and processing a carcass if you may not even be able to eat it? I'd really like to get out and try to get some meat in the freezer and I don't want to bail on my buddy, but at what cost... Thoughts, opinions, experiences hunting in CWD Zones are welcome. Thanks! Just a FYI reply. I live in Vilas (east of Eagle River), and duck hunt on the Rainbow Flowage at least 4 days a week. Every morning I'm en route to the boat landing on Hwy J just a few miles west of St. Germain, about 1.5 hrs before sunrise, I have to go slower than the posted 45mph because of all the deer. Seen lots more this year than in the past few years. Just sayin... BTW... we have 5 differant spots we hunt from on the flowage, depending on wind conditions. We named all our spots, and this year we re-named our best location the "moose blind", because the sandy beach around our blind is littered with moose tracks. We haven't seen it yet (we do see lots of deer & yotes wandering the shoreline), and there's no trees to hang a trail-cam, but it seems like every morning we go to that spot this year, there's fresh moose tracks. 
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After you harvest a deer you will have to check it in at a registration station which will collect a sample for testing. They will give you a serialized number on a tag you will use to check the results of the test;usually within a week from my experience. As far as being worth spending the time and resources in the off chance you get a positive test on one would be up to you. I have been harvesting from the most concentrated areas of the CWD zone since 2001 and have not had a positive test yet. Having said that, I would not consume one that did test positive. Thanks, leotrainer. |
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Gents, This year, due to my work schedule and my daughter's 2nd birthday during opening weekend of gun season, I will likely only be able to hunt Saturday Nov. 23rd. I usually hunt with a close friend, his dad and his brother. They usually hunt in Vilas Co. (St. Germain area), but they wanted to hunt a new area this year in Jefferson Co. According to DNR, all of Jefferson Co. is a CWD Management zone. I am a little apprehensive to hunt there because, although there has been no scientific proof of CWD transmission from wild game to humans (according to DNR), they recommend against consuming meat from deer in those zones until it has been tested. Where would you even get it tested and how long would it take? Would it even be worth being out in the cold all day and then dressing and processing a carcass if you may not even be able to eat it? I'd really like to get out and try to get some meat in the freezer and I don't want to bail on my buddy, but at what cost... Thoughts, opinions, experiences hunting in CWD Zones are welcome. Thanks! I've hunted in Dodgeville since 2002 the year all hell broke loose with CWD. We hunted in the original Irradiation area. All we have shot have turned up negative the ones that are tested. They told us that they don't even check for cwd in deer less than 16 months old because they have never found cwd in a deer are less than 2 years old.. I've eaten most deer before the test results are back. FYI there are per-cautions, You can only transport only outside one adjacent cwd unit for processing |
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I meant to share this info but I burned it..........there was a large ad up here a week or two ago asking hunters to hunt on the University owned lands in Wisconsin. It said there was a web site listing all the lands. Sounds like they are all overrun with deer and they are screwing up all their studies on local plant life because they are eating everything. Classic.
I will watch to see if it runs again. |
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CWD is horseshit. Funny how it is so prevalent along I94 and deer/car accident areas.... I have hunted in the cwd zones and have eaten at least 15 deer, my brother's family 20. We are still alive. But what about that twitch you have?? 
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There are a lot of deer eaten in WI. I would think, that if you are going to get CWD from deer we'd know about it by now. Also, I wouldn't count on a "negative" tested deer staying that way if it goes to a deer processing place. Some of them don't pay a whole lot of attention to who's meat is who's let alone keeping the equipment properly cleaned between individual deer.
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CWD is horseshit. Funny how it is so prevalent along I94 and deer/car accident areas.... I have hunted in the cwd zones and have eaten at least 15 deer, my brother's family 20. We are still alive. But what about that twitch you have?? Wa wa what? |
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Quoted: Just a FYI reply. I live in Vilas (east of Eagle River), and duck hunt on the Rainbow Flowage at least 4 days a week. Every morning I'm en route to the boat landing on Hwy J just a few miles west of St. Germain, about 1.5 hrs before sunrise, I have to go slower than the posted 45mph because of all the deer. Seen lots more this year than in the past few years. Just sayin... BTW... we have 5 differant spots we hunt from on the flowage, depending on wind conditions. We named all our spots, and this year we re-named our best location the "moose blind", because the sandy beach around our blind is littered with moose tracks. We haven't seen it yet (we do see lots of deer & yotes wandering the shoreline), and there's no trees to hang a trail-cam, but it seems like every morning we go to that spot this year, there's fresh moose tracks. Quoted: Quoted: Gents, This year, due to my work schedule and my daughter's 2nd birthday during opening weekend of gun season, I will likely only be able to hunt Saturday Nov. 23rd. I usually hunt with a close friend, his dad and his brother. They usually hunt in Vilas Co. (St. Germain area), but they wanted to hunt a new area this year in Jefferson Co. According to DNR, all of Jefferson Co. is a CWD Management zone. I am a little apprehensive to hunt there because, although there has been no scientific proof of CWD transmission from wild game to humans (according to DNR), they recommend against consuming meat from deer in those zones until it has been tested. Where would you even get it tested and how long would it take? Would it even be worth being out in the cold all day and then dressing and processing a carcass if you may not even be able to eat it? I'd really like to get out and try to get some meat in the freezer and I don't want to bail on my buddy, but at what cost... Thoughts, opinions, experiences hunting in CWD Zones are welcome. Thanks! Just a FYI reply. I live in Vilas (east of Eagle River), and duck hunt on the Rainbow Flowage at least 4 days a week. Every morning I'm en route to the boat landing on Hwy J just a few miles west of St. Germain, about 1.5 hrs before sunrise, I have to go slower than the posted 45mph because of all the deer. Seen lots more this year than in the past few years. Just sayin... BTW... we have 5 differant spots we hunt from on the flowage, depending on wind conditions. We named all our spots, and this year we re-named our best location the "moose blind", because the sandy beach around our blind is littered with moose tracks. We haven't seen it yet (we do see lots of deer & yotes wandering the shoreline), and there's no trees to hang a trail-cam, but it seems like every morning we go to that spot this year, there's fresh moose tracks.  Forgive me for being a little off topic, but rfb45colt's reply brought back some memories. I know that stretch of highway J, the flowage and Pickerel Lake like the back of my hand. Good to hear someone else from Arfcom is enjoying the area. He is correct, there are a ton of deer in that area this year...I'll have to take a look for the moose down there, that would be a first for me in WI...plenty of bears over the years near the flowage but no moose. |
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Forgive me for being a little off topic, but rfb45colt's reply brought back some memories. I know that stretch of highway J, the flowage and Pickerel Lake like the back of my hand. Good to hear someone else from Arfcom is enjoying the area. He is correct, there are a ton of deer in that area this year...
I'll have to take a look for the moose down there, that would be a first for me in WI...plenty of bears over the years near the flowage but no moose. Quoted:
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Gents, This year, due to my work schedule and my daughter's 2nd birthday during opening weekend of gun season, I will likely only be able to hunt Saturday Nov. 23rd. I usually hunt with a close friend, his dad and his brother. They usually hunt in Vilas Co. (St. Germain area), but they wanted to hunt a new area this year in Jefferson Co. According to DNR, all of Jefferson Co. is a CWD Management zone. I am a little apprehensive to hunt there because, although there has been no scientific proof of CWD transmission from wild game to humans (according to DNR), they recommend against consuming meat from deer in those zones until it has been tested. Where would you even get it tested and how long would it take? Would it even be worth being out in the cold all day and then dressing and processing a carcass if you may not even be able to eat it? I'd really like to get out and try to get some meat in the freezer and I don't want to bail on my buddy, but at what cost... Thoughts, opinions, experiences hunting in CWD Zones are welcome. Thanks! Just a FYI reply. I live in Vilas (east of Eagle River), and duck hunt on the Rainbow Flowage at least 4 days a week. Every morning I'm en route to the boat landing on Hwy J just a few miles west of St. Germain, about 1.5 hrs before sunrise, I have to go slower than the posted 45mph because of all the deer. Seen lots more this year than in the past few years. Just sayin... BTW... we have 5 differant spots we hunt from on the flowage, depending on wind conditions. We named all our spots, and this year we re-named our best location the "moose blind", because the sandy beach around our blind is littered with moose tracks. We haven't seen it yet (we do see lots of deer & yotes wandering the shoreline), and there's no trees to hang a trail-cam, but it seems like every morning we go to that spot this year, there's fresh moose tracks.
Forgive me for being a little off topic, but rfb45colt's reply brought back some memories. I know that stretch of highway J, the flowage and Pickerel Lake like the back of my hand. Good to hear someone else from Arfcom is enjoying the area. He is correct, there are a ton of deer in that area this year...
I'll have to take a look for the moose down there, that would be a first for me in WI...plenty of bears over the years near the flowage but no moose. If you know the flowage, I'll tell you exactly where the moose is roaming around (where we found the most tracks anyway). On the east shore, about 1/2 mile south of the end of Oxbow Road, and about the same distance north of Swamp Creek bay. Directly across from the big island that's just south of Rainbow Shores on the west side. It's all bog and marsh behind the line of willows on the shoreline sandbar, and Bullwinkle is hanging out in that boggy area. Only way to get there is by boat (or soon by snowmobile), and we put in by the Pickeral Lake dam landing ("Dave's Landing") and go straight across the widest east/west part of the flowage to get there. By foot, you'd have to make your way 1/2 mile through the bog down from Oxbow (or swim across Swamp Creek coming from the south), so it's very isolated from people, and the water is VERY high right now... highest I've ever seen it this time of year, and I've been hunting there since 1993. Too high for good duck hunting... all the grassy areas are under water.  When the water's down, like it's been the last few years, you could walk down from Oxbow easily by following the waterline on the sandy beach... not this year, you'd be waist deep in muck because the waterline is that far back... terrain is just like a moose would prefer. 
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There are a lot of deer eaten in WI. I would think, that if you are going to get CWD from deer we'd know about it by now. Also, I wouldn't count on a "negative" tested deer staying that way if it goes to a deer processing place. Some of them don't pay a whole lot of attention to who's meat is who's let alone keeping the equipment properly cleaned between individual deer. The incubation period for Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and vCJD can be anywhere from months to decades. It is quite likely that someone has already been exposed in WI, but hasn't gotten sick yet. Why do you think that they still won't accept blood donations from people who lived in the UK during the BSE (mad cow) outbreak, after all these years? BSE is essentially the same disease as CWD, so why would humans be able to catch it from cows but not deer? |
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What I wanna know OP is what brings you to my county to hunt? I always hunt on my dad's land in Marquette Co, as a matter of fact I'll be up there this weekend  My close friend, who I always hunt with, wants to try hunting near his brother in Waterloo. We usually go up to St. Germain (Vilas Co.). This will be a first. |