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To: DMaA who wrote (319792)	11/16/2002 5:21:48 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Very strange deer hunt up here this year. Deer are more plentiful than pine cones but, down in Wisconsin they found a patch of them that have a wasting disease. And while there's no evidence that it can be transmitted to humans by eating the meat, everyone is spooked. Yeah, you know I now own a farm in Wisconsin (westernish). I bought it a few years ago and have never hunted on it because I'm not interested in even risking Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). I let some local guys hunt it. Hope they are okay. I used to enjoy elk hunting. Now I've just given it up. I took a moose, but that is just not nearly as much fun as elk, in my opinion. So, I'm having a ball with eastern whitetails. I'd love to take one of those monster Minnesota bucks. But it's just not worth the risk to me to take any western game, whatever the experts say about my chances of catching CWD. They have introduced elk in Kentucky and some Virginians are fearful that they may introduce CWD to the Virginia deer population. So, much to the chagrin of Kentuckians, Virginia has declared that should any elk stray into Virginia, it is open season on them. I'd love to see elk blossom in this area - but I am certainly wary of them. That CWD is some mean stuff.