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Post by davet on Apr 20, 2024 15:40:55 GMT -5
I see cf/flinter overlap is in Wildlife Management Units 4A, 4D and 5A with no change to rest of WMU’s. I missed this in my first read. Is the CWD really that bad there? Yes. That’s where it’s very prevalent
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Post by CoureurDeBois on Apr 20, 2024 15:55:40 GMT -5
I see cf/flinter overlap is in Wildlife Management Units 4A, 4D and 5A with no change to rest of WMU’s. I missed this in my first read. Is the CWD really that bad there? Yes. That’s where it’s very prevalent I live and hunt in northern 4D, we don’t have it yet, but I know it’s only a short matter of time. The upper boundary of the range isn’t much further than a mile over the mountain from my home as the crow flies.
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Post by davet on Apr 20, 2024 16:11:04 GMT -5
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Post by CoureurDeBois on Apr 20, 2024 18:11:34 GMT -5
Once it gets here, we’ll have to find out how to get it tested. We do up all our deer our selves. Not sure how we will handle that, depending on turn around time on the tests.
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Post by westfieldjoe on Apr 21, 2024 6:08:03 GMT -5
They picked the worst time of year for weather. Seems like the week after Christmas when kids are home from college would have been included. If they can overlap 2 weeks of FL they can overlap 3. If they can do that to FL, they can do it to all of fall archery. Future is looking up.
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Post by davet on Apr 21, 2024 6:10:22 GMT -5
Once it gets here, we’ll have to find out how to get it tested. We do up all our deer our selves. Not sure how we will handle that, depending on turn around time on the tests. It's easy. The PGC has "head dumpsters" where you take the head, bag it, put your information on a tag, and they test it. They post the results on their web site. You enter your license CID# and obtain the results.
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Post by CoureurDeBois on Apr 21, 2024 10:50:04 GMT -5
Once it gets here, we’ll have to find out how to get it tested. We do up all our deer our selves. Not sure how we will handle that, depending on turn around time on the tests. It's easy. The PGC has "head dumpsters" where you take the head, bag it, put your information on a tag, and they test it. They post the results on their web site. You enter your license CID# and obtain the results. What about buck heads that you want to keep?
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Post by davet on Apr 21, 2024 13:40:54 GMT -5
It's easy. The PGC has "head dumpsters" where you take the head, bag it, put your information on a tag, and they test it. They post the results on their web site. You enter your license CID# and obtain the results. What about buck heads that you want to keep? Well....now you are going down a different path. But it's easy still....in fact the PGC made it much easier. If you kill a deer in a DMA (Disease Management Area) and you want to have it mounted, you have a few options. Before this change (last year) you could either field butcher the deer leaving the parts there or it had to be taken to a processor within the DMA. In either case, you had to cape it or the processor within the DMA had to cape it. And you had to use a taxidermist within the DMA. Now you can take it to any "qualified processor" (the PGC has a list) and then take the head\cape to a "qualified taxidermist" who is located anywhere it the state.....as long as he's qualified by the PGC. And my understanding is the only qualification that needs made is the taxidermist must have a dumpster with a working lid so brain parts will go to a landfill. IIRC the taxidermist will bag the brains and you then dump those in the head bin with your CID# Hopefully I've explained that. Ask if I wasn't clear.
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Post by CoureurDeBois on Apr 21, 2024 14:22:13 GMT -5
What about buck heads that you want to keep? Well....now you are going down a different path. But it's easy still....in fact the PGC made it much easier. If you kill a deer in a DMA (Disease Management Area) and you want to have it mounted, you have a few options. Before this change (last year) you could either field butcher the deer leaving the parts there or it had to be taken to a processor within the DMA. In either case, you had to cape it or the processor within the DMA had to cape it. And you had to use a taxidermist within the DMA. Now you can take it to any "qualified processor" (the PGC has a list) and then take the head\cape to a "qualified taxidermist" who is located anywhere it the state.....as long as he's qualified by the PGC. And my understanding is the only qualification that needs made is the taxidermist must have a dumpster with a working lid so brain parts will go to a landfill. IIRC the taxidermist will bag the brains and you then dump those in the head bin with your CID# Hopefully I've explained that. Ask if I wasn't clear. No, it’s clear. I’m just wondering if I could do that myself, legally. We process are own deer, and do our own western/european mounts. Wouldn’t be much of a problem to remove the brains, bag and drop into a head bin for testing. Then finish the skull cleanup, bag it and place it into the home garbage that goes to a county landfill.
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