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Board of Directors PRESIDENT Mr. Chris Ezell Dangerous Whitetails of Oklahoma 7134 W. 420 Rd Chelsea, OK 74016 918-697-5389 chrisezell@rocketmail.com VICE PRESIDENT Mr. Donnie Rivers Bent Pine Ranch, LLC. 1495 SE 683 Road Locust Grove , OK 74352 918-864-3525 donnie@bentpineranch.com TREASURER Mr. Tommy Gleason Deer Creek Whitetails 571 Lone Oak Rd W Hartshorne, OK 74547 918-424-5293 tomgleason6@yahoo.com SECRETARY Mr. David Van Natta 8005 S. 4260 Rd. Chelsea, OK 74016 918-695-0262 davidandtrina@att.net DIRECTOR Mr. Skip West Circle ‘W’ Whitetails 54301 South 351 Road Maramec, OK 74045 918-671-8669 skip@circlewwhitetails.com DIRECTOR Mr. Larry Armstrong Armstrong Whitetails 689 Whitetail Ridge Skiatook, OK 74070 918-639-6951 larry@armstrongwhitetails.com DIRECTOR Mr. Barry Reed 836 E 480 Pryor, OK 74361 918-798-1887 barryreed7@aol.com DIRECTOR Mr. Anthony Salyers Short Creek Whitetails 779 Blanco Rd. Mcalester, OK 74501 918-429-2382 anthonysalyers@att.net DIRECTOR Mr. Tim Condict Double T Whitetail Ranch 23455 FR A51 Hodgen, OK 75069 214-549-9963 tim@dbcdeer.com

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Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Hunting Preserves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Humic Acid Degrades CWD Prions in Soil. . . . . . . . 20-21 Membership Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Protect Your Hunting Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Treasurer’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Together Let’s Make Deer Breeding Great Again in Oklahoma - Director’s Message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 WOO Save the Date!!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

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TREASURER’’S MESSAGE TREASURER Hi All, I hope all your fawns have grown up strong and your bucks have huge antlers. I would like to take this time to talk about antler growing and consistencies in your herd. I have bounced around breeding everything under the sun trying to hit the record board. Yes, I hit a few bucks here and there and made a spot on the board. But I would also have a few bucks I would have to hold over to sell the next year. When I changed my program a few years back and went to only buying and breeding with a couple of pedigrees and not crossing everything up my herd jumped in antler average. We now average over 200” @ 2 and still hold the open frame and great look. My last breeder buck helped put us over the top where we are now growing 150” plus yearlings with big mass, open frame, and tall tines. My point is if we stick to consistency and just outcross once in a while we can start seeing what our does can produce instead of guessing what might work. With my herd now I feel I can average 230” @ 2 and still maintain the look we are after. I DNA every breeder doe and every buck I breed with. When I sell a buck for a breeder I can guarantee what his parents are and not guess and hope I know. Fawns can easily get mixed up and a guy will sell a fawn thinking they know who they are out of only to find out later when the deer gets DNA’d that they were wrong. If you are buying a breeder buck you should be getting a DNA sheet with him. Otherwise you are buying a stocker buck and breeding him. If you have DNA’d does then you have does with more value. DNA costs

a little but it’s $70 well spent if your breeding with good pedigrees. When you go to sell your deer that have DNA papers you will get your $70 back and hundreds if not thousands more. I had a guy get into the deer business several years after me tell me that I was screwing up not having my deer DNA’d and that my herd would be worth three times as much if I did DNA my deer. I went a few more years not listening to him and told him he was throwing his money away. The next thing I know I was selling does for a couple of thousand and he was selling his does for 10-15 thousand. That was the lesson I learned. Guys, I said all this to say DNA your deer if your planning on selling them as breeders. If you’re just planning on raising shooters and putting your does in the freezer of preserves then don’t spend the money on DNA. We need more deer farmers in Oklahoma. We have more demand than we have deer. Do all you can to help the new guys make it to improve the state’s high fence herd as a whole. I keep records of the highest scoring bucks ever born in Oklahoma. If you ever want to know what they are or want to see the record boards let me know. I have added four deer to it this year already and have heard of three more that might make the board that will be scored at our next convention. Well, that’s about all I have to talk about. Be sure to text or call me if there is anything I can do to help in any way. Talk to you soon! Tommy Gleason Treasurer of the Whitetails of Oklahoma

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By: Gail Veley • Sponsored by ILDFA any hunting preserve owners are expanding their audience and marketing to a wider variety of customers such as non-hunting families in our current COVID-19 world. While offering a topquality hunt may still be the main focus, many preserves have begun offering weekend lodge rentals and wedding venues as well as family vacation opportunities. Given that COVID-19 is harder to contract outside in fresh air, families who didn’t officially vacation this year may find a get-away within their own home state more attractive and safer. Car travel and amenities found within one’s home state may be the deciding factor for families vacationing later this year, where hunting need not be on the agenda. However, being outside in nature and among whitetail deer and other wildlife species could be.

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While some hunting preserve owners are hoping this year turns out as lucrative as 2019, other preserve owners, such as Jerry Stafford of Samson’s Whitetails Mountain in Vienna, Illinois have not experienced a significant decline of hunters as a result of COVID-19. Stafford feels his business this year is still on track with the amount he had last year.

However, in an effort to help all preserve Many preserves also offer the ability to owners retain or find new customers, he hunt year-round and provide animals offers the following advice: such as rams for this opportunity. Unlike whitetails, whose antlers are at their • Promote family activities offered at peak in the fall and shed in the spring, your preserve such as fishing. rams keep their horns year-round, • Highlight selling features such as home- Stafford explained. By additionally cooked meals, the appeal of the local offering year-round hunts, executives culture and periods of favorable weather. with the inability to travel for extended periods can pick and choose the most • Emphasize the ability to vacation far convenient time for them, adding to your away from crowds in private cabins or revenue base. And as with all preserves, lodges. the provided conveniences combined with the likelihood of harvesting a highADDITIONALLY, WHEN SEEKING OUT NEW HUNTERS quality animal can be a huge attractant to customers. Having been in the FOR YOUR PRESERVE: business for 36 years, Stafford knows how true that statement is. • Emphasize the selection of animals available whether native or exotic. “We know you want to be taken care • Accentuate the ease and convenience of from beginning to end,” Stafford of having everything taken care of from said. “Everyone owes it to themselves the acquisition of the hunting permit to to experience how awesome a hunting the assistance from experienced hunting preserve is.” He also offers one final guides to the processing of the animal. piece of parting advice. “Support your • Underscore the option (if available) to local deer association and get involved. hunt one-on-one or with a group. Offer If you are a deer farmer, you better the use of preserve-owned guns and be active. We owe our livelihoods to provide target practice, if necessary, the lobbyists who fight for us. They do prior to heading out. amazing things.”

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Together Let’s Make Deer Breeding Great Again in Oklahoma From the WOO Board of Director: I am enjoying being back on the Board of Directors for Whitetails of Oklahoma. Regulatory-wise deer breeders are in very good shape in Oklahoma. The weather has been more conducive this year to the overall herd health of our animals and there are several monster bucks around the state. As we continue to live in unprecedented times in 2020, I feel we need to collectively bring more deer breeders into our fold and make the deer industry in Oklahoma stronger than ever. We need animals with higher survivability, heartiness and resistance to EHD, blue tongue, e-coli and the various other diseases faced in our state, and we continue to push for more research to allow us to be able to breed that direction with certainty. It’s really cool to see what’s being done by the research that has resulted from our work with NADeFA in Washington. Several years ago, we secured the money to map the genome of the Whitetail from our visits to D. C., and the significance has been phenomenal. Soon we will be able to find out our animal’s susceptibility to many health issues. We need breeders and hunt facility owners to be able to remain profitable in the industry for the long haul and withstand the inevitable ups and downs that come with raising whitetail in Oklahoma. We want our breeders to be successful and profitable while living their dreams with their families. The more deer we can keep alive puts more money in our pocket. When your passion for raising whitetail completely consumes you, it takes a ball bat to beat you down. I believe optimism for deer breeding in Oklahoma is growing stronger and the key to maintaining the

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momentum is in gaining more information about vaccines, keeping diseases under control and keeping farms viable every year. As the executive director of the Deer Breeders Corporation in Texas, I believe that knowing all the national issues, will ultimately benefit Oklahoma. Efforts to make things better for Texas and at the national level will carry over into Oklahoma. At the national level we are pushing for live CWD testing in a variety of circumstances, and also have several different research projects currently underway from Texas to Wisconsin, and some places in between. I am going to request from the board that we dedicate a page from our Website and Facebook on information about research, solutions to disease issues and speculative approaches to solving health issues. Although there are no planned social activities on the calendar until the convention in February, we are all looking forward to the time we can get back together. Until then, let’s reach out to each other with a phone call or email and let’s make deer breeding great again in Oklahoma. Mark your calendars for Whitetails of Oklahoma, the DBC events and NADeFA!

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re-dawn sounds within a dark, cold Texas woods were both scary and exciting to then four-year-old Mark McMillan. Whether it was listening to the howls of nearby coyotes or the trepidatious steps of whitetail while waiting for daylight, he felt very secure next to his Dad during his first deer hunt. And although they didn’t find a suitable target that morning, a love for the outdoors and whitetails was born. Today McMillan, 66, is clearly zeroed in on his goal of growing big, clean typical Texas deer and offering them to ranchers and breeders from his M3 Whitetails Ranch in Franklin, Texas.

said. Therefore, as he began and then forged ahead in the industry, he infused successful northern genetics into well-known Texas lines and developed through the years a recognized herd worthy of their price tag. “If you want quality production, you need to invest in quality does and breed them to the right bucks,” he said. “Pedigrees are important but only if they come with proven family production history.”

“Like my bucks, buy my does,” McMillan begins. “I focus on selling does that don’t disappoint. Sixty percent or more of how a buck looks comes from the doe. The right mother is more likely to produce a son that a buyer desires. Yes, I sell bucks, too, but they pretty much sell themselves. However, my program centers around if you like my bucks, buy my does.”

With 870 deer currently residing within 60 acres of deer pens, one deer captures his heart and attention more than any other. McMillan’s early morning routine not only involves his quiet time, it includes visiting McNificent, his prized breeder buck who is gracing this month’s magazine cover. With coffee in hand, McMillan grabs a handful of animal crackers then opens his front door to behold McNificent, his stunning five-year-old buck, standing a mere 60 feet from his front door. Although he shares his pen with eight of his sons, only McNificent will eat his favorite treat from McMillan’s hand.

McMillan offers live bucks and does for sale in Texas and Mexico and any state that allows importing of Texas TAHC certified deer, as well as semen straws and embryos to most all states where deer farming exists. Having been in business since 2009, McMillan feels his farm genetics today combine the best production with the best pedigrees from the most recognized and respected deer in the industry. His two facilities are TC1 and TAHC CWD certified.

McNificent, with an inside spread in the mid 30’s, has flyers on each side of his main beams, giving the impression of a 53-inch inside spread. Among the 60 or so well above average yearlings that McNificent has sired, is one who appears to be a larger carbon copy of him. “Some bucks combine looks, pedigree and production,” McMillan explained. “But that is more the exception, than the rule. McNificent is one of the exceptions! Like my buck? Buy my Straws!”

“If I thought 11 years ago, I could produce bucks that look like mine do today, I would have been thrilled,” he

“I can promise all of my customers this. You will be very happy with what you buy from M3 Whitetails, or we will

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In the wake of the recent historic day on July 22nd whereby the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), hunting advocates and enthusiasts can now benefit from the single greatest commitment on record for increasing public land access and advancing conservation. In addition to providing $900 million annually to the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the bill aids in completing deferred maintenance on public lands and waterways. However, in an effort to ensure historic events such as this perhaps continue to occur and flourish, sustainable numbers of hunters must support pro-hunting organizations and actively participate in the sport. “I feel that most people take hunting for granted,” explains Daniel Thomas, President of Whitetails of Louisiana. “And there is nowhere in our constitution protecting us and saying that we have a right to hunt. The late Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia upheld our right to bear arms. But if we don’t support larger hunting groups (SCI, NADeFA, NRA) and recruit more hunters, I feel like extreme animal rights groups will have the votes to change our way of life.” Professionals within the whitetail industry and hunters alike should share a collective concern about preserving and protecting the privilege to hunt, Thomas emphasized. By standing together and supporting local chapters of Safari Club International (SCI) and other well-known influential groups, hunting advocates have a larger voice in the outcome of defeating legislation aimed at severely curtailing hunting rights as well as curtailing the accessibility of hunting habitat.

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Working to continuously protect hunters, counter false claims and misinformation about hunting while striving to educate those groups opposed to it is SCI, whose national headquarters are located in Washington, D.C. Known as the “hunter’s embassy” on capital hill, SCI employs fulltime lawyers and lobbyists that speak directly with congressmen on a regular basis in regards to advancing and protecting a hunter’s rights. “No matter where, what or how you hunt, SCI protects your freedom to do so,” said Chip Hunnicutt, Director of Marketing and Communications for SCI. “We are not region or species specific. We defend hunting in all parts of the world. We are the only (hunting advocate group) based in Washington, D.C. and in many cases have been the only representation for hunters in a courtroom for legal cases.” With the understanding that hunters are the oldest drivers of conservation, balance is restored in natural areas if both predator and prey numbers remain at manageable levels, Hunnicutt said. Hunters play a necessary role in this aspect while adhering to the guiding principles comprising The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. These guidelines state, among other things, that fish and wildlife are public property and as such must be taken by legal and ethical means, used for food or fur and never slaughtered for commercial use. Standing behind the North American Model for Wildlife Conservation are groups such as the Council to Advance Hunting and Shooting Sports, whose presence and action has prompted a national movement to aggressively recruit and retain hunters, Hunnicutt said. Supported by SCI, perhaps a

more thorough understanding of the benefits of this movement would help hunting opponents ease their stance. When animals outgrow their habitat and encroach into areas where they may not be welcome, new problems and situations can occur. By allowing hunters to manage the population of certain species in the first place, perhaps these unwelcome situations might not ever occur. And as hunters contribute to the balance of an ecosystem, any ethical participant respects and reveres any animal they harvest, always being careful not to waste any of it. At the Tensas National Wildlife Refuge located in Tallulah, Louisiana, where both the Louisiana black bear and whitetail deer exist, hunters avoid harming the black bear while playing significant seasonal roles in other areas to maintain a natural and healthy predator-prey balance. “When you ask a hunter how their hunt went, they don’t talk about the kill,” Hunnicutt said. “They are going to tell you about their experience, and what they saw, the food they ate and the people they met. They are also willing to go into areas where others would not, to facilitate conservation.” With 180 SCI chapters located throughout the world (140 of those being within the U.S.) finding and supporting a chapter in your state is easy to do by going on-line. Contributions to the SCI Political Action Committees (PAC) go directly towards efforts to help elect state and federal pro-hunting, pro-Second Amendment candidates. “As a hunter, being a member of SCI is one of the most important things you could ever do,” Thomas said. “Be involved and support these organizations that help protect our livelihood.”

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WD is a disease that seems to be increasing in prevalence throughout North America and beyond. This is especially important to deer farmers who are affected by burdensome regulations and restrictions. It can ultimately put us out of business if we have the misfortune of having a positive test. It has definitely stifled our once overwhelming enthusiasm for what we do. There is hope. Although the route of transmission is still unknown, it has been hypothesized that CWD can be transmitted indirectly through environmental contamination, most commonly believed, through contaminated soil. The CWD prion is thought to be very resilient. It has been shown to exist in soils for many years. The Centers for disease control (CDC) states that the CWD prion can remain in the soil for a very long time. It is termed PrP resistant, because of its resistance to harsh chemical treatments, as well as its inability to be degraded naturally in the body. Autoclaving, a common method of sterilization has proven ineffective on the CWD prion.

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ALONG COMES HUMIC ACID. HUMIC ACID is a naturally occurring component of soil. Through years of abusing our soils with herbicides, pesticides and pollution we have depleted the once sufficient amounts in our soils. In 2018, Judd Aiken at the University of Alberta demonstrated that humic acid at various concentrations degraded the CWD prion in infected brain tissues. Even though, humic acid degraded the prion in brain tissues, Aiken was un-able to conclude that humic acid would degrade the prion in soil, due to the complexity of soils. Many of us believed that humic acid would degrade the prion in the soil and wanted to test this theory. If confirmed we believed it would give deer farmers a major tool to fight CWD. There were many skeptics, but the United Deer Farmers of Michigan was not one of them. They stepped up and committed to funding a project, to verify if humic acid was capable of degrading prions in the soil. METHODS Wilderness Whitetails of Wisconsin, a longtime leader in the Deer Farming community agreed to allow testing at one of their facilities. Greg and Shorty Flees had already been involved with helping to find a solution to CWD, through their involvement in resistance research with Dr. Haley. Testing sites were focused on feeding and watering areas. Samples were taken with a 1 inch diameter stainless steel soil sampling probe at depth of 1 inch. Twenty Four samples were taken. These samples were packaged and sent to CWD Evolution for prion testing.

RESULTS Testing was done using RT-QuIC. The initial testing indicated that 3 of the 24 samples contained prions. The samples were retested with the same results. These positive samples were then treated with humic acid. The humic acid was dissolved in deionized water at the equivalent concentrations of those used in the Aiken study for comparison purposes. These concentrations were the equivalent values of 2.5 grams/ liter, 15 grams/liter and 25 grams per liter of humic acid. The humic acid source did vary from the Aiken study. Obtaining pure chemical grade humic acid was expensive and problematic. It would also be cost prohibitive for future practical application. The decision was made to use the New Mexico Mesa Verde Humates source, seeing this is easily available and affordably priced. The incubation period was also extended from 24 hours to 72 hours, reasoning that this increased period is not significant to practical deer farming purposes. ALL SAMPLES TREATED TESTED NEGATIVE for CWD prions. The humic acid at the highest concentration (25 g/l) interfered with positive results and therefore the negative values obtained at that concentration could not be used. However, all samples treated tested negative so we could assume that the highest concentration would also be negative at 25 g/l. These results show a 10 fold increase in the degradation of the prion at the extended incubation period used, verses the Aiken study.

INTERESTING THOUGHTS Prions may not be as hardy as previously thought. The facility tested has a 70% CWD prevalence rate and we could only find prions in 12% of the samples, using state of the art technology. Keep in mind that the samples were taken in high congregation areas around feeders and waterers. Recent studies with Scrapie, a prion disease of sheep, has shown that differing soil types can present either inhibitory results or no difference in the replication efficiencies depending on soil composition (Saunders it al. 2011). High organic matter soils showed greater reduction in detections where high sand soils showed no apparent reduction in replication efficiency (Saunders et al. 2011). This may be explained in this study, in that High organic matter soils have higher humic acid content vs sandy soils, which have very little humic acid.

GOING FORWARD I believe this study showed that if Deer Farmers want a solution to CWD, we are going to have to figure it out on our own. Currently, with the help of Scott Follett, we are setting up a study in Wisconsin at Apple Creek Whitetails. This study will look at the life expectancies of CWD positive deer on humic acid feed. It will test prion shedding on CWD positive deer fed Humic acid. It will test prion presence in semen of CWD positive deer fed humic acid. It will also continue exploring mineral levels and their effect on CWD. Finally it will also test the effects of CWD on markered deer. If you or your organization would like to participate in helping to solving CWD, please go to the website at www. solvecwd.com. You can also call Dennis Simpson at 313-218-0105. Whitetails of Wisconsin has already committed to supporting this project.

CONCLUSIONS First, I’d like to thank the Deer farmers of Michigan and Wisconsin for their forward thinking, and generosity in funding these studies. Finally, we’ve already covered this in other articles, but if you haven’t, think about using humic acid in your operation, and do your part to prevent CWD. Feel free to contact me at any time if you’d like to discuss anything. My cell is 906-282-7555, or email me at: dan@wideandhighwhitetails.com.

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2018 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

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