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Post by flounder on Jun 15, 2018 21:16:57 GMT -5
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Post by cspot on Jun 16, 2018 8:26:23 GMT -5
Didn’t they do a lot more testing this year? I think they allowed anyone in the dma to get their deer tested for free. More testing would result in more cases especially if you are testing where the disease is known to be. |
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Post by davet on Jun 16, 2018 10:39:07 GMT -5
Just "thinking out loud"....but the article stated (and I know the article didn't quote the law chapter\verse) that: "While hunters are prohibited from removing high-risk deer parts from DMAs, the meat, hide and antlers attached to a clean skull plate may be removed from a DMA." So, if you take a DMA area deer, you can't bring it back to your "outside the DMA area located home" and have a local processor butcher.....or even do this yourself?
Also, is it counter productive to have these designated DMA areas and not provide "mandatory" testing of every deer taken? I mean, if I'm going to hunt in a DMA area, I want to know for sure that I didn't kill an infected deer. If I can't get that testing done, then I would not hunt the area......thus increasing the number of deer in the DMA area......which would be counterproductive. Ya know?
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Post by 3212 on Jul 7, 2018 15:33:32 GMT -5
Just "thinking out loud"....but the article stated (and I know the article didn't quote the law chapter\verse) that: "While hunters are prohibited from removing high-risk deer parts from DMAs, the meat, hide and antlers attached to a clean skull plate may be removed from a DMA." So, if you take a DMA area deer, you can't bring it back to your "outside the DMA area located home" and have a local processor butcher.....or even do this yourself? Also, is it counter productive to have these designated DMA areas and not provide "mandatory" testing of every deer taken? I mean, if I'm going to hunt in a DMA area, I want to know for sure that I didn't kill an infected deer. If I can't get that testing done, then I would not hunt the area......thus increasing the number of deer in the DMA area......which would be counterproductive. Ya know? This is my problem.They have created DMAP areas within DMA's to encourage more deer removal.A hunter like me who drives 2 hrs to hunt can't drop a deer off closer to home.I would have to find an approved butcher within the DMA.Also, I would want my deer tested so I have to find the head collection bin.Now the butcher doesn't have the tagged head.This needs to evolve further to all the deer processors in the state with head testing.A big hurdle I know. |
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Post by 3212 on Jul 7, 2018 17:48:45 GMT -5
Also,the list of approved processors is not available until September.The invitation to hunt in Georgia is looking better all the time.
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