This deer season may not be one for the overall record books, but in Texas that type of prognostication isn’t dire. In fact, even in what biologists and land managers would term an “average” or even “below average” season, we’ve still got some great hunting opportunities.
The Lone Star State...
Revelations this week by Texas wildlife officials that more than 200 white-tailed deer were euthanized at a South Texas hunting ranch with a deer breeding operation highlight the threat of chronic wasting disease and the no-holds barred effort to keep it from creeping into the state.
Texas Parks and Wildlife...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved an experimental pronghorn buck season in some areas of the Panhandle, which would allow landowners to control the harvest of buck pronghorn antelope.
In addition, an extension to the existing mule deer managed lands deer permits season will be part of changes to...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is taking public comment on reauthorizing the practice of using tracking dogs to trail wounded deer, which has been prohibited in a dozen eastern counties for more than 20 years.
A series of public meetings is slated to provide details of the proposal and...
Chronic wasting disease has become a hot-button issue in the Texas white-tailed deer-hunting landscape, and the most recent positive test from a captive deer shot on a release site is only going to heat up the debate.
The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and Texas Animal Health Commission are said to...
Exotics have been a staple on the Texas landscape for roughly a century, with game ranches stocking hundreds of thousands of antelope, deer and other horned critters of all shapes and sizes.
In most cases, the exotics are welcome for the thousands of dollars per head they can bring via...
Texas deer hunting is known across the country for both quantity and quality. And while many folks typically associate the Lone Star State as being a land primarily under high fence, there are huge bucks taken each year on low-fence lands.
Many of those bucks are taken on smaller tracts...
The deer hunting forecast in Texas is always good.
Yes, there are lingering detrimental impacts across much of Southeast Texas in the months after Hurricane Harvey inundated the area with terrifying flooding.
However, even in what the whitetail prognosticators term as “down” or “average” years, we’ve still got the largest population...
Doves
North, Central Zones: Sept. 1-Oct. 23 and Dec. 20-Jan. 5
South Zone: Sept. 20-Oct. 27 and Dec. 20-Jan. 20
Teal
Sept. 14-29
Pronghorn Antelope
Sept. 28-Oct. 6
White-Tailed Deer
Archery: Sept. 28-Nov. 1
Youth Season: Oct. 26-27; Jan. 6-19
North Texas (212 Counties): Nov. 2-Jan. 5
South Texas (30 Counties): Nov. 2-Jan. 19
Mule Deer
Archery: Sept. 28-Nov. 1
Panhandle (39 Counties):...