The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has approved some changes to the Mule deer regulations for the upcoming season. The new regulations were founded in conclusion with a successful experiment that started in 2018 and 2019 in some Panhandle Counties. Prior to the experiment, TPWD received many requests from landowners, managers, and hunters to improve the buck age structure within the southeast Panhandle. TPWD data for 14 years preceding the experiment indicated annual, intensive mule deer buck harvest that created a skewed sex ratio and an age structure inordinately weighted towards young deer in the buck segment of the population.
