Blacktail / Whitetail hybrid? Pics added!

[Rbob]

Anybody ever seen or heard of a hybrid like this? I have and have pics to prove it. I've been tracking this monster for the third season now. It is on the west side in the Puget sound area 15 min from my home so I have lots of pics of him and he definitely has a blacktail's tail on him and white tail left antler, the right side is just awesome! I'll let you all drool about that for a bit, I'll post pics later. So, who's seen any hybrids other than blacktail / muley's near the eastern western border?

[sirmissalot]

The puget sound is a long ways from any whitetails I've ever heard of, so that would be pretty interesting.

I've heard people say they think they saw or killed one, because its not uncommon for a blacktail to split off the main beam like a whitetail, especially for a 3 point. I saw a buck a kid killed near port orchard that was a 4 point that split off the main beam just like a whitetail but it was not a whitetail, or a hybrid, just cool genetics. Blacktails also wave the white flag like a whitetail so people often times get crazy ideas.

Would love to see pics of him.

[JPhelps]

 

Most likely just a different horn configuration than normal

[PolarBear]

It is actually more common than you might think in blacktails.  There are a few whitetails in SW WA but the interbreeding is extremely rare.

[Kola16]

It is actually more common than you might think in blacktails.  There are a few whitetails in SW WA but the interbreeding is extremely rare.

 

[Huntbear]

It is actually more common than you might think in blacktails.  There are a few whitetails in SW WA but the interbreeding is extremely rare.

 

[sirmissalot]

It is actually more common than you might think in blacktails.  There are a few whitetails in SW WA but the interbreeding is extremely rare.

That was my thought at first too but the columbia whitetails in the sw are a long ways from the puget sound area.

[PolarBear]

There have been Columbian Blacktails as far North as Grays Harbor, not that far from Puget Sound.

[Rbob]

I couldn't wait to post these

[Boss .300 winmag]

He is a cross dressing whitetail  , nice blackie definatly has a wierd rack. Shoootem.

[RB]

There is a Whitetail doe around the Arlington area I did not take a picture, but if you go to the Kangaroo farm off of highway 530 she hangs around there to eat. I thought I was hallucinating but I have seen and killed all three species that can be hunted and know the difference. The owner stated she comes and goes as she pleases and lives in the area.

[headshot5]

That's a dandy

But strange ones happen example see this thread that is up today.  Look at both sides of his antlers.  One splits more typical blacktails and one more blacktail/whitetail.  Not a great example but it shows you the idea.
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,108324.0.html 

Or for a better example look at Bow4elk's (member here) 3X4 with an interesting extra off the main beam like a whitetail. http://www.outdoorblog.net/pnwbowhunting/2010/07/14/my-2009-columbian-blacktail-mount/

[sirmissalot]

There have been Columbia Blacktails as far North as Grays Harbor, not that far from Puget Sound.

If you say so.

That's a stud of a blacktail, that's for sure.

[Boss .300 winmag]

There have been Columbia Blacktails as far North as Grays Harbor, not that far from Puget Sound.

If you say so.

That's a stud of a blacktail, that's for sure.

I think you mean Columbian Whitetails.

[Jonathan_S]

Blacktail/Whitetail hybrid = mule deer right?  I know it's not a voila equation but dont genetic studies show that the mule deer was created by WT and BT intermingling?  Am I  ?