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Post by swilk on Oct 2, 2007 8:34:09 GMT -5
Can anyone confirm .......
I was talking to my cousin Sunday night and he was updating me on the story of one buck that was found in Spencer County.
Supposedly the buck grosses 213 5/8 and has been confirmed by the IDNR as an EHD death.
It is being mounted for free and the owner is allowing it to tour the state ( I assume to events like the Deer and Turkey Expo).
Surely if it is really that big someone else know about it ......
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Post by stinkychomper on Oct 2, 2007 15:53:39 GMT -5
same story different town.....
I heard today that the buck was found at the Muskatatuck NWR
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Post by mullis56 on Oct 2, 2007 16:03:19 GMT -5
I heard the same thing today from Scott County! Funny how stories get stirred around and changed!
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Post by swilk on Oct 2, 2007 16:14:53 GMT -5
Isnt it though ......
I wonder how long before someone swoops into town (wherever it may be) and offers the guy a new truck and 4-wheeler for the rack.
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Post by johnc911 on Oct 2, 2007 17:35:23 GMT -5
It was not hancock county there are no deer that big here.
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Post by mullis56 on Oct 2, 2007 19:46:34 GMT -5
Isnt it though ...... I wonder how long before someone swoops into town (wherever it may be) and offers the guy a new truck and 4-wheeler for the rack. Yes, that'd be funny! The guy who told me heard it at a bait house, where a CO had told the bait shop owner earlier that day....but as I said that was in Scott County!
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Post by hoosiercanuck on Oct 4, 2007 13:19:36 GMT -5
I heard the same story except that it was found floating on the banks of the Ohio River....
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Post by Woody Williams on Oct 4, 2007 13:30:07 GMT -5
I heard the same story except that it was found floating on the banks of the Ohio River.... Yeah.. that's what I thought .. a Kentucky deer..
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2007 13:39:03 GMT -5
Urban legends (or in this case "rural legends") are truly fascinating. It is amazing how fast these things spread and evolve (or devolve) along the way.
It just so happens that I am in the middle of teaching a weeklong seminar to our 8th graders on the subject of folklore. We have been looking at some famous urban legends. I may have to use some of the ones that revolve around big deer that come up every year. They are perfect examples of this kind of folklore. Interesting stuff!
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Post by rmc on Oct 4, 2007 17:39:48 GMT -5
Nope No deer in Scott Co. that big. Lived here all my life. Not possible.
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Post by greenhunter5364 on Oct 9, 2007 20:46:47 GMT -5
It couldn't have come out of Switzerland County...all the big deer have been killed there long ago.
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Post by Harley on Oct 10, 2007 8:15:58 GMT -5
There was an article in the Sunday Bloomington paper about a farmer in Green county who found a monster deer dead on his land from EHD. The article made it out to be a buck with a HUGE rack.
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Post by passthru on Oct 10, 2007 8:27:22 GMT -5
A 19 pointer was found in Greene county dead, but not of EHD. There isn't any water on the property. The buck was given to the neighbor by the land owner.
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Post by Harley on Oct 10, 2007 8:54:06 GMT -5
Here is the article I read. Must be a different deer since there is a creek running through this property.
"Keith Bennett was bush hogging along a creek bank on his southwestern Greene County property when he spotted a big, dead buck straight ahead.
He stopped and loaded the carcass onto the tractor. The giant antler rack is still sitting outside a shed at his house.
Bennett and other Indiana farmers and outdoorsmen have been encountering dead deer this fall near ponds, lakes and creeks. The animals are victims of epizootic hemorrhagic disease, which often is fatal. The biting midge fly, also known as Culicoides sonorensis, transmits the virus.
Midges lurk around muddy, wet areas. The tiny vectors, as long as a nickel is thick when full-grown, cause EHD in deer and blue tongue disease in livestock.
A dry summer has resulted in concentrations of midges at wet sites. And when deer gravitate to the same sites for water, the blood-sucking insect and wild animal meet up.
“Because of the drought, EHD is much more noticeable this year,” said Chad Stewart, a deer research biologist for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. “The consensus among biologists is that a lot of the moist areas now are dried up, concentrating these midges and deer around watering holes. There’s an increase in their ability to interact.”
Deer often are found dead near sources of water, where they go to cool off after the high fever and dehydration associated with the disease set in.
EHD is nothing new. The disease first was identified in wild deer herds in 1955, Stewart said. And historical reports of deer dying from similar symptoms date back to 1890. “It’s not a new disease by any means,” he said. “We have probably had EHD in this state every year.”
But the virus has been more widespread and apparent this year because of the drought. “We have been tracking reports and we have gotten more from deer that have died from EHD and its symptoms than ever before,” Stewart noted. “It’s a pretty bad outbreak.”
Rex Watters, a DNR wildlife specialist at Lake Monroe’s Paynetown office, recently found six dead deer on the property. Other people have reported five more dead deer around Paynetown. He attributed the deaths to EHD.
Watters said a hard frost, unlikely anytime soon, will take care of the midge population and stop the virus from spreading.
So far this year, EHD has been reported in 46 of Indiana’s 92 counties. Lab analysis has confirmed cases in Henry, Wayne, Jefferson, Jackson, Clark, Daviess, Dubois, Perry, Warrick, Pike, Gibson and Posey counties. Most cases are being reported in the southeastern and southwestern parts of the state.
Monroe, Brown, Greene, Owen, Morgan and Lawrence counties have been less affected, but deer are dying from EHD in those areas as well. “There could be some residual immunity built up in the herds around here,” Stewart said, “since we had reports in those counties last year.”
He said some deer recover from the virus. “Not every deer that is infected with EHD is going to die,” he said. “There is a chance that even if they look sick, they may pull through.”
Stewart emphasized that the disease does not spread from animal to animal or from animals to humans. And people cannot contract EHD from the biting midges, even when bitten.
He recently gave a presentation about EHD to state legislators, who have been hearing concerns from their constituents about the virus. “Like everyone else, they wanted some accurate information,” he said.
Carol Kugler of The Herald-Times contributed to this story. "
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Post by trapperdave on Oct 10, 2007 12:00:51 GMT -5
It was not hancock county there are no deer that big here. you got that right!
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Post by jrbhunter on Oct 10, 2007 18:27:54 GMT -5
That article makes it sound like it'll be touring the state alright.... behind the IDNR booth at various conventions.... like all the other poached and illegally gathered monsters.
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Post by freedomhunter on Oct 11, 2007 14:08:05 GMT -5
be interesting to see if he is allowed to keep the rack or not. I would think DNR would take it.
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Post by cvillehunter on Oct 17, 2007 7:43:07 GMT -5
Is there a photo of this deer anyhere?
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Post by Woody Williams on Oct 17, 2007 12:22:06 GMT -5
Is there a photo of this deer anyhere? I don't recall seeing it anywhere.. DNR can issue a permit or keep the rack themselves as they see fit. The Missouri DNR kept one a buunch years back that is the #1 Non-typical.
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Post by Hawkeye on Oct 17, 2007 14:59:42 GMT -5
I wonder if the person who found this Deer had to use his one and only Buck tag?
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