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April 13, 2022

Want To Enroll In TX Deer Program?

Enrollment in the Managed Lands Deer Program (MLDP) is now open for the 2022-23 hunting season. Open enrollment for the MLDP Conservation Option runs from April 2 through June 15 this year while the Harvest Option […]
February 24, 2022

TPWD Seeks Comment On Hunting Regs

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is now taking public comment on the following proposed changes to the 2022-2023 Statewide Hunting and Migratory Game Bird proclamations: Allow the take of white-tailed deer by firearm in Collin, Dallas, […]
December 15, 2021

House Passes CWD-Focused Bill

In a 393-33 vote this evening, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Chronic Wasting Disease Management and Research Act, which would expand the federal government’s role in the fight to control a fatal wildlife disease […]
October 8, 2021

How Are Bucks Scored?

Kill a good whitetail buck these days and sooner or later someone is going to pop the question: What does it score? The same could be said for mule deer, elk and pronghorn antelope and other […]
November 6, 2020

Study Gives New Insights Into Deer

Researchers made strides in whitetail research in 2020 as they jumped into a multifaceted research program aimed at population ecology, habitat use, survival, mortality, and productivity of white-tailed deer in Idaho. This research gives an interesting […]
October 9, 2020

Deer Urine Products And CWD

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a killer-no doubt. It has caused the death of thousands of whitetail, mule deer, elk and other deer in numerous states and at least two Canadian provinces. Yet there is some […]
October 9, 2020

Hunting Wrong Side Of Cold Fronts?

Whitetail movement increasing after cold fronts is a commonly held belief among hunters. But according to Ken Swenson of Swenson Whitetail Ranch, he sees something different. He raised trophy whitetails for years and had some interesting observations. […]
October 9, 2020

Whitetails Have Two Noses?

The sense of smell of deer is legendary. There are hundreds of products on the market and homegrown remedies for eliminating human scent and appealing to hunger and sexual urges through smell. Did you know however […]
September 11, 2020

Go Organic for Whitetail

Texas has a Cornucopia of Natural Alternatives to Corn and Other Artificial Deer Enticements. Let’s face it, Texas deer hunters pursue the wary whitetail in two basic ways―baiting and playing on the sexual urges of rutting whitetail bucks Deer […]
September 11, 2020

Are These 7 Days Your Best Chance for a Big Texas Buck?

If you could schedule a hunt during a 7 day cycle that produces more big bucks than any other time in most of Texas, would you? Well, there is still time. Since the advent of the […]