I've dragged and gutted alot of deer, but Sunday I had an immediate allergic reaction from a doe killed. As soon as I loaded my daughters deer in the suv I had uncontrollable sneezing and hours later; hives all over my torso. the hives have just disappeared today. Anyways I looked it up and there seems to be alot of lifelong hunters being suddenly allergic to deer fur or dander. Iam still going to hunt, but if this continues it will change the way I harvest deer dramatically. Iam kind of depressed about it. but hoping its just the dry weather exacerbating things. be careful out there if you start sneezing Saturday.

I started having allergic reactions to deer hair several years ago. I break out, start itching, sneezing, and eyes start watering. I have to wear gloves and be extremely careful when handling a deer.

It does it to me also. For whatever reason a rutted buck does the worst to me. Mainly itchy eyes, sneezing, runny nose. A shower usually clears it up. It hasn't stopped me though. Mine started 10-15yrs ago. Who knows why

Skintback is allergic to them, maybe not that bad tho.

Skint is just a sissy, besides Billy never kilt a deer ! LOL Scrape it could be what plant the deer in your area is bedding in.

It's that damn Chuck Sykes and the new State Game Check crap.

49er told me so.

I have the same thing happen to me. It is quite annoying.

God Bless,
David B.

same here, now I have to take an allergy pill and wear gloves when I clean one. Started about 10 years ago.

Been dealing with it for 30 years. Go buy several boxes of surgical gloves and keep them EVERYWHERE!!! In the truck, in the pockets of all your hunting close, at the club house, everywhere. Put them on before you ever touch the deer. Not to mention it's much easier clean up by just removing the gloves and tossing in the trash.

If I don't do this it gets bad quick. Itchy, running, burning eyes that swell shut. Sneezing, coughing, you name it...Last time it took 2 rounds of steroids to clean it up.

now that is funny.

Yep I got it to, I never had a problem till a friend of mine caught a fawn. We had it inside petting it and letting it play. My eyes got to itching and in a few minutes my buddy said man your eyes look bad. I wear contacts and the fluid under the skin of your eye had doubled and it looked like my eyes wear about to pop. It freaked me out. I jumped in the truck and hauled arse a few miles to my mom's house. I pulled out my contacts and the look of my eyes scared the hell out of me. I told my mom to get me to the ER. Now the funny/scary part my mom is not so great at driving. So hear we go to the ER we are on a four lane road. She is in the fast lane doing about 80 or so. The road is also make a long sweeping left hand turn. Now she coming up on a car in front of her. I'm setting in the front passenger seat and she swaps lanes into the slow lane to pass the car. I can tell right away thru my blurry eyes that she has turned the wheel way to much (left hand sweeping turn) to the right to pass this car and stay on the road. I grab the wheel of the car from her and we drift slide as we come around that car. I then begin to cuss and tell mom hell I'd rather be blind than dead to slow the hell down if she can't drive that fast. Funny now but not so much that day.

I don't have issues, and honestly never thought about it. Being a new hunter, thanks for this thread.

If I ever kill one, it sounds like a perfect reason to get someone to gut, skin, and de-bone the long eared irritant for me.

thanks for the tips, I will have to expirement to see if this is also airborne or just a touching thing.

True that Perch. Its sad, he wants to kill one so bad.

I've heard some dandy excuses from folks not being able to kill deer but this one takes the cake.