With white-tail deer hunting season set to open Saturday morning, the biggest change that hunters in the western part of the Panhandle will face are required check-ins at two testing locations to ensure their prize isn’t carrying chronic wasting disease. The stations, set up by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, are in Vega and Dalhart, and any whitetail deer, mule deer or elk must be taken to one of the stations within 24 hours of being killed. read more