if u could only choose one for the rest of your life?

[Huntbear]

I believe you can hunt all three in Oregon as well.

I would choose Mule Deer. I like tall, wide racks.

Yes, you can hunt the Columbia Whitetails I believe..

However, Oregon does not have any Native Big bodied whitetails like we have in Washington state...

They have some in the NE corner you can hunt (not the columbian variety)

Damn Washington deer crossing that imaginary line... they need to be shot on sight.   

[buckfvr]

Ive taken all three as well......but I live with the whitetail, and they intrigue me the most. 

Multi deer tag this year, so september will be all about mule deer( or a high country whitetail stud buck ), have to be a very good buck, october will be mule to start, whitetail last week of general season, and of course late modern will be whitetail....I have spots I will still use a bow during modern, but I also have a couple open spots that will require lobbin lead.  Late archery will be whities near home again......I will as usual, eat my tag rather than shoot a young buck.  Too many mature deer around to cash in your tag on a youngster.

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Benchlegs...

[Bigshooter]

I've hunted blacktails every year for the last 22 years with a lot of success.  But I voted for mule deer without even thinking about it.  I absolutely love to hunt mule deer more than everthing else you can hunt combined.

[dvolmer]

Desert Mule deer are the best.  whitetails can be a blast.  But hunting in the rain for scrawny little deer with small racks is not for me, so You can have all of the west side Black tails as far as I am concerned.  I have shot over 30 mule and whitetail deer.  When I go over to the Oregon coast to go crabbing once a year I see those little malnutritioned deer and wonder why anybody would chase them around.  Now I do have to admit that I am very biased and have never hunted a day for Blacktail and I am opening myself up for all kind of abuse by all you west side fellas but I am used to being abused.  Ha ha.

Actually I probably would like to hunt them if I had grown up chasing them but I just have never hunted them and the few I have seen seemed a little bit scrawny.  Wheat fed deer i am sure taste much better than they do and the best deer you will ever eat is a young wheat fed Whitetail doe.

[Button Nubbs]

i hate bt's, never hunted wt's, md are my second favorite big game animal next to elk. i guess you know where my vote went.

[bankwalker]

Chuck Norris would hunt blacktails.....so the choice is obvious 

[Button Nubbs]

Chuck Norris would hunt blacktails.....so the choice is obvious 

chuck norris would not hunt blacktails, he would make them extinct....

[bankwalker]

Chuck Norris would hunt blacktails.....so the choice is obvious 

chuck norris would not hunt blacktails, he would make them extinct....

In that case the choice would be obvious....I'd be hunting muledeer or whitetail

[3nails]

Desert Mule deer are the best.  whitetails can be a blast.  But hunting in the rain for scrawny little deer with small racks is not for me, so You can have all of the west side Black tails as far as I am concerned.  I have shot over 30 mule and whitetail deer.  When I go over to the Oregon coast to go crabbing once a year I see those little malnutritioned deer and wonder why anybody would chase them around.  Now I do have to admit that I am very biased and have never hunted a day for Blacktail and I am opening myself up for all kind of abuse by all you west side fellas but I am used to being abused.  Ha ha.

Actually I probably would like to hunt them if I had grown up chasing them but I just have never hunted them and the few I have seen seemed a little bit scrawny.  Wheat fed deer i am sure taste much better than they do and the best deer you will ever eat is a young wheat fed Whitetail doe.

I've taken 50+ deer (wt, bt & md) and the two biggest bodied deer I have killed have been blacktails. One was 300 +/- and the other 280 +/- . So much for scrawny! And I've got pics to prove it.

[JimmyHoffa]

If forced to choose, I guess jungle blacktails.  I think most of the people talking about scrawny deer are referring to yearling and maybe slighty older.  The biggest whitetails I've seen/killed were just over the 200 # mark, and the biggest blacktail was around 250#.

[huntandjeep]

Mule deer.

[Hunterman]

I'm with the group that has killed all 3 species of deer. I'm not even going to go into the count to date ( some would call BS, and then it would get real ugly     )  Mule deer are fun, right mighty pretty country, whitetails are a joke, easiest deer to pattern, now a blacktail will make you look like a fool more time than not.. He IS the hardest of the deer to hunt..Thick brush, nasty weather, ruff roads, everything you need for deer

Hunterman(Tony)

[DBHAWTHORNE]

I'm with the group that has killed all 3 species of deer. I'm not even going to go into the count to date ( some would call BS, and then it would get real ugly     )  Mule deer are fun, right mighty pretty country, whitetails are a joke, easiest deer to pattern, now a blacktail will make you look like a fool more time than not.. He IS the hardest of the deer to hunt..Thick brush, nasty weather, ruff roads, everything you need for deer

Hunterman(Tony)

  Tell you what. I will show you where a 170+ whitetail lives. Tell you everything I know about him and then you can get after it. Commit to killing only him and at the end of the season tell me how easy he was to pattern when you are left with nothing but your tag. 

[buckfvr]

I can back DB on that one.......here all summer gone til after the season closes....not one, but many. 

That being said....yes, blacktail can be very difficult, and the weather is often miserable.  Ive been the wetest hunting blacktail, and by far the coldest, hunting whitetail.  Any mature buck has his survival skills honed to a fine edge....very, very difficult to win.