More than 5.4 million white-tail deer are roaming Texas, according to TPWD biologists, and many of the deer are right here in Central Texas. Those of us lucky enough to reside in the Hill Country have access to nearly half the deer in the state.  The region lies on the eastern edge of an ecological region called the Edwards Plateau, which is home to an estimated 2.3 million white-tailed deer, an average of 147 animals per acre.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Bowhunters have been in the field for over a month, but the vast majority of Texas hunters have had to wait for their chance to bag big bucks and does with bullets. The state has more than 1 million registered hunters who harvest hundreds of thousands of deer anually.