A smaller bust from early last month has implicated 22 individual deer breeders operating in 11 Texas counties. (Photo/TPW) ...

Texas game wardens have charged 22 suspects as part of a black-market deer breeding operation spanning 111 counties.

Whitetail deer, as are other Cervidae, are termed “short-day breeders.” What that means is their hormones and pheromones are influenced to a great degree by light and photoperiodism.

Both Georgia and Pope & Young allow racks to be measured with ... tree stand on the Kentucky archery whitetail opener, Chandler Barnes knew exactly what deer he was looking at.

Kansas is known for its legendary whitetail, but a 250-inch gross-score rack is still something special ... in the U.S. Birk’s and Chambers’ deer, once verified and entered in Kansas records ...