CWD positive in the Flat Tops

[BDRam16]

If you aren’t willing to eat CWD meat, and you willingly hunt in a known CWD area and say you won’t eat the meat if it tests positive, you shouldn’t be hunting there. Would you rather have a prion in portions of a cervid body most people don’t even consume and has not one single case of human transfer or store bought meat packed full of antibiotics, hormones, and that fed on pesticide soaked grains?

Call me crazy but I’ll take my chances with the free range stuff.

 

[ColoradoV]

Wonder if the cpw will change the seasons and try to kill off every mature elk like they are doing for for Deer in places that dont even have Cwd….

Time to bring in the heli and gunners. Pry in every nw unit at this point..

Oh wait the cpw is already on that train in the flat tops…. Scorched earth kill em all!!

Carry on.

 

[GrumpyHiker]

Is it bad form to ask what unit the positive test came from? Flat tops is a pretty large area

If you look at page 37 of the hunting brochure, all Flat Tops units have been found to be CWD positive.

 

[Stalker69]

Lemme guess…. You already got your booster shot too right? Lol

Have not got any of the shots, actually.

 

[Stalker69]

If I die, it ain’t gonna be from CWD.

That’s the least of my worries

I guess you know what you will die from ? You have cancer or something ?

 

[CoStick]

I guess you know what you will die from ? You have cancer or something ?

Dementia it would seem;-)

 

[cnelk]

I guess you know what you will die from ? You have cancer or something ?

Probably a better chance of being shot by ML hunter..... than dying from CWD

 

[5MilesBack]

The Flat Tops units have been known to have CWD for years now. I don't give it a second thought.

 

[Stalker69]

I have a bunch of CWD study info. But the file is to big for me to post it here, it won’t load it.

 

[SirChooCH]

We were on the northern portion of the flat tops. Had 2 of the 3 bulls we brought out test positive for CWD. CPW/ our local Mi DNR disease specialist, and local veterinarian all say toss the meat and don't risk it. Literally if your deer tests positive for TB here they say it is safe to eat even covered in yellow spots. But they say to toss it for CWD positive tests because its too close to mad cow. Look up what they have done when mad cow was suspected on a farm...kill every animal on the farm, burn and bury the bodies, deep clean, don't allow animals back for a few years...its not pretty once the gov steps in.

I deer hunt in CWD core area and they have changed the rules here in my area of Mi to allow anything to be shot on buck tags. So even my 4+ on a side restricted buck tag I can shoot any buck or a doe. And they now allow 10 doe tags per hunter. Whack them back, its an overpopulation disease I guess. Soon to come in that area of Co for elk I bet.

 

[LostArra]

Probably a better chance of being shot by ML hunter..... than dying from CWD

Or romaine lettuce. That sh*t will kill you. No Caesar salad with my elk steaks.

 

[cgasner1]

If you aren’t willing to eat CWD meat, and you willingly hunt in a known CWD area and say you won’t eat the meat if it tests positive, you shouldn’t be hunting there. Would you rather have a prion in portions of a cervid body most people don’t even consume and has not one single case of human transfer or store bought meat packed full of antibiotics, hormones, and that fed on pesticide soaked grains?

Call me crazy but I’ll take my chances with the free range stuff.

Wouldn’t it be better to continue hunting these units like normal and risk throwing out some elk meat if it tests positive so that bull isn’t spreading the disease. If it already has cwd he is dead on his feet why make a bad situation worse


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[Voyageur]

What worries me about hunting in CWD units (which I do hunt in) is having potentially infected meat in my freezer while I await test results.

 

[WCB]

I hope there are a ton of guys that don't want to hunt CWD areas. Soon it will cover 100% of the US (probably already does) and they won't hunt any more making tags easier to get.

So my answer is NO it does not effect where I hunt. Never had a deer tested. but to each there own.

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

This isn’t news OP. Read your handbook.

 

[CoStick]

I hope there are a ton of guys that don't want to hunt CWD areas. Soon it will cover 100% of the US (probably already does) and they won't hunt any more making tags easier to get.

So my answer is NO it does not effect where I hunt. Never had a deer tested. but to each there own.

If you get an infected animal they reissue you another tag and reimburse up to $100 in processing fees. It might increase the pressure

 

[Azone]

So I have better odds of dying from the rona vs eating meat with cwd?
Will be hunting somewhere in Colorado next week, definitely don’t want to throw a whole deer away.

 

[fmyth]

So I have better odds of dying from the rona vs eating meat with cwd?
Will be hunting somewhere in Colorado next week, definitely don’t want to throw a whole deer away.

 

[7Bartman]

How many humans have been tested for CWD ? We asked for my mom to be tested after her death, and my farther in law, they had no clue what we were talking about. And were told both times, they don’t do that. Both died of “ Alzheimer’s “ which they don’t test for, they just diagnose you with that. Who’s to say humans haven’t died of it, if ifs never tested for. We had a friend that we went to high school with that passed away from mad cow disease. The same thing as CWD really. Tested because of younger age.

There are other human prion diseases (e.g., Jacob-Creutzfeldt, kuru, fatal familial insomnia) but like others have said cervid prion disease transmission to humans hasn't been recorded. Maybe forego the butchering anything around the CNS and just go boneless. TBH, despite what I just said I'd still be a little hesitant, but that's just me, sometimes knowing too much isn't a good thing.

 

[BDRam16]

Wouldn’t it be better to continue hunting these units like normal and risk throwing out some elk meat if it tests positive so that bull isn’t spreading the disease. If it already has cwd he is dead on his feet why make a bad situation worse


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EDIT: I was wrong about the reissued tag statement