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Post by Woody Williams on Oct 8, 2014 7:32:25 GMT -5
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Post by henson59 on Oct 8, 2014 8:00:31 GMT -5
I would think regardless of your location your area would need at least 2-3 years to recover from the impact of EHD.
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Post by Woody Williams on Oct 8, 2014 8:19:07 GMT -5
I would think regardless of your location your area would need at least 2-3 years to recover from the impact of EHD. It took a couple years for my area. After that you couldn't even tell the herd had been effected at all.. |
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Oct 8, 2014 8:50:42 GMT -5
They have not recovered yet in my neck of the woods!
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Post by henson59 on Oct 8, 2014 9:24:25 GMT -5
Both my areas in IL and IN got hit the past couple years. Where I hunt in Illinois it may take a couple years to build back up but luckily for me our place in Indiana seems to have more deer then people in that county so I imagine as long as we don't get hit again next year things will be almost back to normal.
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Post by jjas on Oct 8, 2014 9:34:08 GMT -5
When Washington County go hit a few years back it took more than a couple of years to bounce back. But a big part of that was due to the local Amish family who killed anything that moved regardless of deer numbers.
It seems to have improved quite a bit over the last 2-3 years.
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Post by drs on Oct 8, 2014 10:23:34 GMT -5
There's a few EHD cases in some Central Ky counties. Nelson county around Bardstown seems to be the worse. Not found any EHD victims on my property or in the county.
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Post by windingwinds on Oct 8, 2014 13:34:07 GMT -5
It's been two years here. From camera pictures they have mostly recovered. (Might even be increased from years past. ) We never completely filled our tags so changing from a 4 doe county to 3 isn't much different except no second doe season with gun. We currently, if game camera is accurate, have some nicer 8 point bucks if they ever return during daylight hours.
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Oct 8, 2014 15:04:09 GMT -5
I forgot what a deer looks like, 5 sits and no deer. Ehd was rampant here last year and I suspect this year to. No water running in creeks and stagnant water sitting, doesn't look to be a rebound year here again. The DNR will tell me it's just pockets of ehd, and left the doe count at 8 again this year. Doesn't make sense to me.
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Post by henson59 on Oct 8, 2014 15:18:18 GMT -5
I forgot what a deer looks like, 5 sits and no deer. Ehd was rampant here last year and I suspect this year to. No water running in creeks and stagnant water sitting, doesn't look to be a rebound year here again. The DNR will tell me it's just pockets of ehd, and left the doe count at 8 again this year. Doesn't make sense to me. I am in Ohio County and I haven't had any issues. |
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Post by drs on Oct 9, 2014 4:29:01 GMT -5
I forgot what a deer looks like, 5 sits and no deer. Ehd was rampant here last year and I suspect this year to. No water running in creeks and stagnant water sitting, doesn't look to be a rebound year here again. The DNR will tell me it's just pockets of ehd, and left the doe count at 8 again this year. Doesn't make sense to me. Your area/county might have been one that was really hit hard by EHD. Back in 2007, up in Indiana; I was going to Deer hunt private property located in Pike County, Indiana, but the owner said he was finding all kinds of dead Deer on his place. So, I just hunted on my 12 acre hunting spot on my own property. It will take 3-5 years before your area recovers it's numbers, like it was before last year. |
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Post by shouldernuke on Oct 9, 2014 5:27:06 GMT -5
Well lets see since we were hit with both strains of EHD two years running its not going to happen quickly .Also in general I think it all depends on the hunting pressure/ allowed number of antlerless tags in the areas we all hunt the number of predators in that area and other factors such as hard winters and the like .I do not look for a rebound here for possibly 3 to 5 years from now .Its all relative to the herds size and other factors .
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Oct 9, 2014 10:51:07 GMT -5
Rumor has been the neighbor had dep tags this summer as well. Have not confirmed that yet. That wouldn't help the situation either.
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Post by drs on Oct 9, 2014 11:14:40 GMT -5
Rumor has been the neighbor had dep tags this summer as well. Have not confirmed that yet. That wouldn't help the situation either. NOPE! Dep. Tags would not help at all. |
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