I am not going to debate genetics at all... well..just for a second or two
but in many, many years of spending a lot of time in the Stampede country I never saw a deer that "looked" like a muley... and furthermore...rarely did I see one before I'd get to Cle Elum...
You guys??
Not to throw a curve, but I did see what I beleive to be a mulie in Stampede this year. I've been hunting up there for a lot of years and I agree that most of those bucks look like blacktails to me, but I have seen some that looked like benchlegs and then the big one from this year (well '08) that I would call all mulie. Granted he was only about 2 miles from the crest trail, but he was in the stampede and was chasing 4 muley does.