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Did that area get hit last year too?
hillrunner
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I found a few last year, not as concentrated as this was.
what general area?
Daver
PMA Member
Extreme NE Davis County, just mere yards from the NW corner of Van Buren. I have directly heard from about 5 or 6 neighbors in the area and have had second hand reports from another 8-10 people in the surrounding area...probably a 5 square mile area.
Also, last week I spoke with Aaron at Iowa-Missouri Seeds in Keosauqua and he was getting lots of reports from guys coming in to buy seed. So it sounds like Van Buren in general was getting hit hard.
Hardwood11
It is going to be a good fall!
Huge bummer. As I border you . I’ll check more this weekend. Hopefully isolated case ?
Crawford was hit terribly hard in 2021 and Shelby took a hit too
Matthewfox_45
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That year was rough!!! I found 12 dead on the 130 acre farm that I hunt.
Hardwood11
It is going to be a good fall!
Iowa is great state for deer hunting, but if EHD wipes out deer and some of the top end bucks, it can really frustrate a landowner.
The worth the premium.. doesn’t really add up if the big buck wastes away in creek from EHD!
The worth the premium.. doesn’t really add up if the big buck wastes away in creek from EHD!
smithhunter1975
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Had a doe laying dead in my lawn at the farm in Des Moines county. A friend of mine about 10 miles away found a dead doe on saturday and saw a doe that was on her last leg before collapsing
Hardwood11
It is going to be a good fall!
This hot stretch is not helping. Heard 6 more in my area of Iowa .
Hardwood11
It is going to be a good fall!
When the term “this sucks” doesn’t go far enough!
deerdown
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Shame...nice deer. Was that the only one on your farm?
Hardwood11
It is going to be a good fall!
Only buck so far, I’ll check more this weekend.
Copenhagen Tob
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What a shame, hopefully an isolated case, dirty frigging midges
Bassattackr
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Nice 3.5 (?) year old. Washington County, MO.
Found at my bosses place, only a few hours old, body wasn't even stiff yet. 10 feet from his lake.
Found at my bosses place, only a few hours old, body wasn't even stiff yet. 10 feet from his lake.
CottonwoodCanyon
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Found one in Appanoose county, right off the bank of the creek. A very solid, maybe 145" buck. He was hard horned but had been there a few weeks judging by decomp. CO came out and made a report. Praying for a hard frost...
madplotter
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Yes, our area got hit hard. We have found 2 does on our place and hearing of at least another half dozen in a mile radius. SE Mahaska and northern Monroe.
Daver
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Corresponding today with neighbors from around our farm...it isn't sounding good for us this season. Very few deer, does and bucks, are showing on cameras. If you would have asked any of us in, say June, we would have all told you that we needed to really ramp up the doe shooting this year. Now...not so much...we may not target any. We'll just have to see what is still living as we begin hunting ourselves...but it looks like a very lean year in our area.
FWIW, we have never really seen, or smelled as the case may be, big numbers of dead ones in the years past where EHD hit other southern Iowa areas so hard. I guess this year is "our turn"...harrumph.
FWIW, we have never really seen, or smelled as the case may be, big numbers of dead ones in the years past where EHD hit other southern Iowa areas so hard. I guess this year is "our turn"...harrumph.