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For the past 4 or 5 weeks I've been hearing of Ohio deer dying by the herds due to some kind of sickness.
Rumor has it the unusually warm warm fall has not killed off some kind of gnat that spreads some kind of bug that kills deer in less than a week after they get sick.
This is not chronic wasting desease according to the rumor mill.
The rumor mill includes people that own guns shop.
One would think that gun store people would not spread false rumors like this as they would be shooting themselves in the foot by loosing sales of guns/ammo/license/ and accessories.
According to Mr. Rumor, Wva. has considered CLOSING the deer gun season due to the disease, that hunters should NOT eat the meat nor become contaminated with deer blood.
Mr. Rumor says that on one large Ohio farm over 500 deer were found dead this fall.
Now that sounds pretty wild don't it?
500 deer on one farm is a LOT of deer, dead or alive.
A few minutes ago I fired off an e-mail to the Ohio DNR explaing the persistant rumors and asking for information.
Wonder if I will get a reply?
I go out of a night with a million candle power spotlight and check the corn and soy fields behind the house for deer. It's not unusual see 2 to 20 deer at one time.
This fall I have seen only three about a month ago and last night just one.
That of course proves nothing but there are NO rubs where there are normally many and only ONE scrap where I usually find 5 or 6.
Anyone got info on this rumor?
Rumor has it the unusually warm warm fall has not killed off some kind of gnat that spreads some kind of bug that kills deer in less than a week after they get sick.
This is not chronic wasting desease according to the rumor mill.
The rumor mill includes people that own guns shop.
One would think that gun store people would not spread false rumors like this as they would be shooting themselves in the foot by loosing sales of guns/ammo/license/ and accessories.
According to Mr. Rumor, Wva. has considered CLOSING the deer gun season due to the disease, that hunters should NOT eat the meat nor become contaminated with deer blood.
Mr. Rumor says that on one large Ohio farm over 500 deer were found dead this fall.
Now that sounds pretty wild don't it?
500 deer on one farm is a LOT of deer, dead or alive.
A few minutes ago I fired off an e-mail to the Ohio DNR explaing the persistant rumors and asking for information.
Wonder if I will get a reply?
I go out of a night with a million candle power spotlight and check the corn and soy fields behind the house for deer. It's not unusual see 2 to 20 deer at one time.
This fall I have seen only three about a month ago and last night just one.
That of course proves nothing but there are NO rubs where there are normally many and only ONE scrap where I usually find 5 or 6.
Anyone got info on this rumor?
