Blacktail / Whitetail hybrid? Pics added!

[washelkhunter]

   You are 100% correct. WT+BT = MD.

[Ripper]

The Black tail I just shot had the same type of antlers as a whitetail. It's not that uncommon for blackies to have this configuration.

[PolarBear]

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.

Yep, I say so.  I grew up in Shelton, hunted the whole coast most of my life and have personally seen them as far North as the Humptulips area, although it has been 20 years or more.

[hillbillyhunting]

My buck from 2007 has antlers a lot like a whitetail.  I think people mostly get confused when they see the blacktails flag like a whitetail.  Blacktails still have white under the tail! 

[DUCKDUDE]

Yeah my mulie this year had whitetail like antlers also.

[jackelope]

Blacktail...

[hillbillyhunting]

Blacktail...

   a really nice one too! 

[Chappyk16]

I say you shoot it forst, then get it test and find out! Just need to put it on the ground

[Rbob]

The story around the area I hunt is that 100+ years ago, some rich guy owned his own private game reserve only 5 miles from where this bucks home is. The guy had blackies, white tail, and muleys along with alot of other exotic animals and birds. They all died off except for the deer which interbred and now there are a few animals out here with some white tail in them. If you look at his left side main beam, he has 3 vertical tines like a white tail. The smaller buck pics look similar but if they would have made it another year, their rear point would have branched into a true forked 4pt. I don't think they would have grown another vertical tine like white tails do. I still believe in the dream of the hybrid. All nice bucks by the way!

[sirmissalot]

The stories I have read about hybrids was that they were sterile. That was whitetails/muleys though, maybe the genetic make up of whiteys and blacktail is close enough... I don't know. Polar bear is the first person I've heard of that has seen whitetails halfway up the coast, but if that's the case and if hybrids aren't sterile then you'd think we would have a lot more running around... Learn something new every day!

Still looks like 100% blacktail to me. And a giant. Does this happen to be around port orchard? Looks a lot like the buck I saw a kid kill a couple years ago from there.

[Rbob]

Not around port orchard, its near one of the points in south puget sound ( that's as specific that i can get without giving my honey hole away). Besides this buck, I took a long shot at a non-typical 3pt, got a video of a big box framed 4pt at 20 yrds, 3- 2pts and countless does but that was last year. All within a half mile by half mile area.

[sirmissalot]

Well I hope you whack him!

[DUCKDUDE]

Blacktail...

   a really nice one too! 

Nope shot on the east side

[hillbillyhunting]

Blacktail...

   a really nice one too! 

Nope shot on the east side

I think he was talking about the trail cam pics of the buck in question... at least I was

[DUCKDUDE]

I WAS WONDERING.  MY BAD