Riverbend Whitetails of Oklahoma

08/29/2026

08/17/2026

The country’s top CWD genetics researcher says CWD is “by far the most corrupt area of scientific concern” he has encountered in his career. Dr. Christopher Seabury, a tenured Texas A&M professor who has spent more than 20 years researching prion diseases and has worked with USDA on CWD genetics, recently pointed to Wisconsin as the real-world example people don’t want to discuss. After years of aggressive management, including efforts to drastically reduce deer numbers, CWD continued spreading. Meanwhile, the Wisconsin population data he cited shows the deer herd grew by more than 82% between 2008 and 2024, reaching an estimated 1.825 million deer.

Seabury’s argument is that natural selection is already be accomplishing what government management has failed to do. Favoring deer that are more tolerant or resistant to CWD, allowing infected animals to survive and reproduce. He wrote that “mother nature has already done the experiment for us, and she won in the battle against CWD,” and called the CWD field the most corrupt area of science he has encountered, warning states to follow actual evidence instead of “ideological talking points.” That is an incredible statement coming from a PhD researcher who has spent his career studying prion disease.

Funny how state game agencies talk about “follow the science” until that science shows how badly they screwed up.

— Stephen Ziegler
Outdoor Writer | Rack Junkies Podcast

08/13/2026

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WHY ARE WILDLIFE AGENCIES IMPOSING SO MANY REGULATIONS ON DEER HUNTERS AND DEER FARMERS IN THE NAME OF DISEASE MANAGEMENT?
by: TONY KALNA Jr
I used to believe the narrative that said CWD is spread primarily through the interstate and intrastate moving of live deer by deer farmers. I once sat on the Missouri Conservation Federation's CWD committee and I believed that narrative. But after carefully looking at the data it's clear that the captive deer industry has done a good job at containing CWD. However CWD in wild populations is continuing to slowly spread across the landscape.
There's so much hypocrisy surrounding the CWD Management regulations that it's hard to trust the wildlife agencies anymore. Why are they solely focused on regulating deer hunters and deer farmers? Why do they continue spending millions of dollars on studies every year and imposing more regulations on deer hunters and deer farmers without any positive results? Why isn't there an end goal for CWD Management? This has become a bottomless money pit that is wasting our tax dollars and Pittman Robertson funds. It's also imposing ridiculous and hypocritical regulations on hunters and landowners which has caused a decline in hunter numbers over the years.
What's really behind all of this? Is it government control over what we eat? Is it a science project gone bad in an effort to save our planet from climate change?
I do believe CWD is a real thing but I don't believe it's a threat that could wipe out our deer herds. But I do believe that our wildlife agencies are the real threat to our deer herds. What are your thoughts on CWD?

08/10/2026

2 year old ! Just sedated so we can work on his antlers . No steroids or hormones are fed to this deer . All natural.

08/06/2026

Monster 2 year old

07/23/2026

That’s a lot of bone!