Mule Deer Antler Restriction Expansion

After a four-year experiment in seven counties in the Panhandle, the Texas Parks & Wildife Department has expanded the mule deer antler restrictions into 21 new counties, totaling 28 counties in the Panhandle. These include the original seven counties in the experimental area, and the 15 counties in the southwest Panhandle where the season was expanded from 9 to 16 days.

A legal buck deer is defined as a buck with an outside spread 20 inches or greater.

Any buck with at least one unbranched antler (e.g., spike) is NOT legal to harvest, unless the outside spread of the main beams is at least 20 inches.

Visit tpwd.texas.gov for more information on county restrictions.