Originally Posted by Mbrock
Acorns and pressure. There was no die off. EHD did not impact AL on a population level anywhere this summer or fall. It was very low impact here.

Deer don’t disappear (die) on the scale ppl are wondering about without notice. Even small scale impacts are noticed by landowners and hunters.

Wet spring ✅
Heavy mast crop ✅
Hunting pressure ✅
December ✅

Your deer are fine. They are there. You’ll not believe me or anyone else when we say this until season is over, and the deer magically return, but I promise you, the deer are there and doing very well. The setup this year screamed success for deer and frustration from hunters, long before season even opened. You’re not seeing deer because they’re in superb physical condition. Deer don’t move unless they need to or have to. Neither applies right now. They are moving when and where they want to go based on hunting pressure and local habitat conditions.

Common sense like this don’t go very far with these conspiracy theories. Nothing changed except deer gonna be fatter and bigger bucks next yr because folks don’t know to hunt the acorns this yr .

Brushwacker