12/16/2025
Our pressure on the CWD industrial complex is working! With nearly 65 million views on our CWD posts, we’ve done what agencies refused to do for decades, force real scrutiny from hunters who are tired of being talked down to. For years, questioning the “kill more deer to save deer” strategy got you labeled ignorant or anti-science. Now, suddenly, the tune is changing. That doesn’t happen unless the narrative starts cracking.
Missouri’s latest deer regulation changes look an awful lot like backpedaling. They’re eliminating the CWD-specific fi****ms portion because it didn’t meaningfully increase harvest, scrapping the confusing CWD management zone, and shifting toward targeted testing instead of blanket rules. These are not minor tweaks, they’re admissions that parts of the strategy failed. Agencies can call it “simplifying regulations,” but hunters aren’t stupid. When something isn’t working, you don’t simplify it, you replace it.
And here’s why this conversation isn’t going away: Rack Junkies doesn’t take endorsements from hunting companies, and we’ve never been paid to protect agencies from criticism. That independence is exactly why we can keep exposing a CWD response built on fear, pressure, and mass culling instead of measurable success. So here’s the question game agencies should probably answer instead of ignoring: are these changes the first step toward real accountability, or just a cosmetic reset to keep hunters quiet while the same failed mindset stays in place?
