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• NN Senior Member Posts: 24,966 Senior Member

  August 2020 #2

  https://huntfish.mdc.mo.gov/hunting-trapping/wildlife-diseases/chronic-wasting-disease-cwd#:~:text=CWD%20Has%20Not%20Always%20Been%20In%20Missouri.%20MDC,increases%20in%20both%20prevalence%20and%20distribution%20over%20time.
  

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• JerryBobCo Senior Member Posts: 8,227 Senior Member

  August 2020 #3

  I don't know about Wisconsin, but some states mandate testing for CWD on all cervids taken.  I've read that the disease can't be spread from animal to human, but I wouldn't eat one if it tested positive.

  Jerry
  
  Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.

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• Jayhawker Moderator Posts: 17,646 Senior Member

  August 2020 #4

  The way Michigan handles it, is that all deer coming in from out of state must be boned out...you can't bring in any bones, spinal parts like neck roasts, etc...boned meat only...they will confiscate, test and destroy any deer carcasses coming in from out of state....and give you a rather large ticket for doing so

  Sharps Model 1874 - "The rifle that made the west safe for Winchester"

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• Jayhawker Moderator Posts: 17,646 Senior Member

  August 2020 #5

  Also...as I understand it...it's illegal to bone out a deer in Texas...so I guess unless it goes to a processor before you leave the state, you're going to have to bone out your deer carcass at a rest stop in Oklahoma before going home to Michigan...

  Sharps Model 1874 - "The rifle that made the west safe for Winchester"

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• Japhy Posts: 146 Member

  August 2020 #6

  One of the areas identified by Missouri Conservation is centered on my hunting location, a relative's soy bean farm.  I suspect there is a higher incidence of CWD in that area or it would not be monitored?  In the past we have typically done our own processing and wrapping.  I need to find out the legalities of driving back to AZ with a processed deer, through KS, OK TX, NM, it will be a road trip.

  I am 100% with JerryBob when it comes to consuming one that tested positive, the more I read and learn the more concerned I am.  Truly sad to know that CWD is taking a toll on the deer population, never heard of it 5 years ago.
  

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• JerryBobCo Senior Member Posts: 8,227 Senior Member

  August 2020 #7

  Jayhawker said:

  Also...as I understand it...it's illegal to bone out a deer in Texas...so I guess unless it goes to a processor before you leave the state, you're going to have to bone out your deer carcass at a rest stop in Oklahoma before going home to Michigan...

  That's news to me.
  
  I know there are a few areas in Texas that require you have any deer tested for CWD.  I've never heard of any law that makes it illegal to bone out a deer, though.  That doesn't make sense.

  Jerry
  
  Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.

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• bullsi1911 Moderator Posts: 11,647 Senior Member

  August 2020 #8

  That is a pretty obscure regulation, but one that gets people every year.  the reg says something about “deer may only be processed beyond quarters at a location that qualifies a “final location””
  
  The reason?  It would be very easy to shoot an extra deer and mix the quartered out meet in and just say “that was the biggest doe I’ve ever seen!”
  
  So yes- the quarters and backstraps have to be kept intact until you get it to a processor or get it home.

  To make something simple is a thousand times more difficult than to make something complex.
  -Mikhail Kalashnikov

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• bullsi1911 Moderator Posts: 11,647 Senior Member

  August 2020 #9

  There are a few Texas CWD areas, and one is “close” (in Texas terms.  Maybe an hours drive )to where I hunt:
  https://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoor-annual/hunting/cwd/cwd-zones
  
  Oh, and here is the regulation of keeping quarters intact:
  https://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoor-annual/hunting/general-regulations/processing-in-camp
  

  To make something simple is a thousand times more difficult than to make something complex.
  -Mikhail Kalashnikov

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• JerryBobCo Senior Member Posts: 8,227 Senior Member

  August 2020 #10

  bullsi1911 said:

  There are a few Texas CWD areas, and one is “close” (in Texas terms.  Maybe an hours drive )to where I hunt:
  https://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoor-annual/hunting/cwd/cwd-zones
  
  Oh, and here is the regulation of keeping quarters intact:
  https://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoor-annual/hunting/general-regulations/processing-in-camp
  

  I think the following may be your out.
  
  Once a deer or pronghorn has been entered in the cold storage record book it may be finally processed. Proof of sex and tagging requirements continue to apply until the deer or pronghorn has at least been quartered and entered into the record book.
  
  Just get it processed while still in Texas.  You should be able to have it deboned, and then carry it to your final destination.  We did that a few years ago when hunting in Montana.  All we brought back was antlers and boned out, frozen meat.

  Jerry
  
  Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.

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