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Mark your calendar with the hunting season dates for 2022-2023, including these season openers:

Dove: 9/1 in North and Central Zones, South Zone Special White-winged Dove Days opens on 9/2.Archery: 10/1White-tailed deer: 11/5

What’s new for the 2022-23 season:

  • Establish mandatory buck and antlerless white-tailed deer harvest reporting in Collin, Dallas, Grayson and Rockwall counties during white-tailed deer season.
  • Modify the definitions of “buck deer” and “antlerless deer.”
  • Modify the proof of sex requirements for harvested buck deer.
  • Create definitions for two types of commercial cold storage facilities.
  • Modify tagging and proof of sex requirements, log procedures and destination regulations for commercial cold storage facilities.
  • Expand mule deer antler restrictions to an additional 21 counties in the Panhandle.
  • Extend the general mule deer season in 15 southwestern Panhandle counties from nine to 16 days and add a special archery season.
  • Establish a mule deer antler restriction in Terrell County within the Trans-Pecos.
  • Establish a veterans and active-duty special waterfowl hunting season to occur concurrently during youth-only season in all duck zones.
  • Modify the West Zone for goose hunting to open a week earlier than current goose hunting regulations.
  • Remove the daily bag limit restriction (two) on hooded mergansers.
  • Combine the separate merganser and duck daily bag limits into a single aggregate daily bag limit of six per day.
  • Reauthorize the requirement to possess a Federal Sandhill Crane Hunting Permit while hunting that species due to an administrative error.
  • Close the turkey season east of IH-35 in Ellis County to support ongoing restocking efforts along the Trinity River.

All regulations for 2022-23 will be available in the Outdoor Annual online or on the app by Aug. 15.

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