To my knowledge there have been no documented cases of CWD in South Carolina to date. This disease can remain dormant for 10 years and then turn up again generations later. This worries me because the SCDNR has busted two local canned hunt outfits in the last 5 years for smuggling deer in under the radar from Ohio and Illinois where CWD is common. The last and closest outfit is less than 10 miles from me.
During the 2012 season I killed a deer that had all the symptoms of CWD and reported it to the DNR biology department in Columbia with the offer to deliver the carcass for study but they weren't interested at all. The response I got was that there are no known cases of the disease here and the closest state to us where it is known to exist is West Virginia so they aren't worried about an outbreak here any time soon. Typical government mentality.
Nothing new to report here. Haven't been hunting much due to work, the weather and the moon phase. The cotton farmers are all but done with the harvest now so I'll have more time to spend in the woods as soon as the full moon decreases a bit more and the deer activity gets back to ''normal''.
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