Deer

Nearly 300 tissue samples were collected from hunter harvested mule deer from the Trans Pecos ecoregion of far West Texas during the 2012-13 season for Chronic Wasting Disease testing. Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory and National Veterinary Services Laboratories confirmed CWD in four of those samples, according to a...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought unpredictability into the lives of most hunters, especially those with travel plans that called on them to pass state or international boundaries to pursue wild game. And while many hunters from the Lone Star State will continue to face uncertainty due to the ongoing...

Deer hunting in Texas is more than just a barrage of camouflage. For many folks -- hundreds of thousands of us here in the Lone Star State alone -- deer hunting is life, and from Amarillo to Brownsville north to south and Texarkana to El Paso east to west, it’s...

The Texas deer hunting forecast is always exceptional, even in years such as this when dry, hot conditions take over in the late spring and through the summer, leading to concerns about how the season will shape up as range conditions seemingly deteriorate by the day, if not the...