I've been asked to do a bit of research by a journalist. Does anyone here hunt (or have knowledge of hunting) deer in Ohio please. I'd like to know more about the hunting practices there. I'll reveal what I am looking at later (I want to avoid skewing the answers). And being a journalist I need to know by yesterday!
Hunting in Ohio
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Bavarianbrit
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Buying a pistol in Ohio I know about but have never hunted in that state.
Ta, that's helpful
So a bit more about this. It's in response to this paper Accelerated evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in free-ranging white-tailed deer - Nature Communications giving evidence that SARS-CoV-2 evolves faster in white tailed deer than in humans. This is relatively normal in an unexposed population, but the rate is unexpected.
The reason I asked the question is how the covid got into the deer in the first place, it's not like deer snogging is a regular event (I hope). The paper describe several human to deer events so I'm speculating this is related to hunting practices of baiting so that der congregate when they shouldn't or of "canned" hunting where deer are more closely managed. There was that video of a free ranging deer being darted to treat an abscess quite recently. SO I speculate that there are a few occasions when people are in close contact with white-tail who are then released and mingle with the larger population.
Thoughts please
PS - it's not thought to be a big problem, the changes that the mutations cause are not significant.
The reason I asked the question is how the covid got into the deer in the first place, it's not like deer snogging is a regular event (I hope). The paper describe several human to deer events so I'm speculating this is related to hunting practices of baiting so that der congregate when they shouldn't or of "canned" hunting where deer are more closely managed. There was that video of a free ranging deer being darted to treat an abscess quite recently. SO I speculate that there are a few occasions when people are in close contact with white-tail who are then released and mingle with the larger population.
Thoughts please
PS - it's not thought to be a big problem, the changes that the mutations cause are not significant.
7upwestmids
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Yes and no. I didnt actually hunt there but I did hunt in Michigan north of Ohio. I remember it was one of the few states to allow hunting with crossbows, whereas in Michigan you could only use one if you had a disability.
Bavarianbrit
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My hunt was in 1994 near Holland Mich with an NEF topper 12G rifled with open sights on public lands but I never saw one, typical.
7upwestmids
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I hunted twice once at a mates hunting lodge in the UP with a semi auto 3006 and with my mate Frank at Roscommon hunting area with his Marlin lever action 30/30, opening day was like world war 3, you knew the deer were coming , you could hear the shots getting closer, snow and minus 25 wind chill kept you awake. Saw some does but no opportunity at a buck unfortunately. 100s of pickups with rifles and cases of bud and moosehead heading up the interstate and " We welcome hunters " signs at Mcdonalds and Kfc on the way up. Good memories.
HappyHunter
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Hi,
I've recently moved to Ohio and will be hunting this season if I can offer any help.
From what I understand, baiting is legal in Ohio unlike some other states and the use of 'food plots' to hold deer seems common in a lot of the US.
There are also a lot of whitetail here. They are everywhere. I've also witnessed them being fed quite regularly.
HH
dobber
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its airborne
Listened to something, likely a podcast but it was found that some people contracted the strain that some deer were carrying, had certain characteristics that could only be sourced to the tested deer. But these people were city folk who have nothing to do with hunting or the outdoors so no chance they came into contact with deer at all.
With deer being a very social animal it's not out of the realm that a lot of touching and passing on the bug has happened. Remember some of the stories about people in boats at the start of the pandemic who never came into contact with others for weeks prior and ended up catching it
Given how many deer there are in Ohio, very urbanised, I'd speculated the pick up or sniff a lot of discarded tissues.
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