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[blacktail luv]

I saw the rack and assumed it was a blacktail but once i read the posts and saw the tail mentioned I went back and looked closer, that thing definately has a mulie tail.  Still a bomber buck.

[180-GRAIN]

The book has a category just for these dear taken in the portion between I-5 and the pct just for all the reasons covered on this post. Mule deer, blacktail and crossbreeds all fall into the same category in the book. They are scored as a cascade blacktail just for inbreeding situations. The other side of I-5 is considered columbian blacktail so looks like you got yourself a monster B&C cascade blacktail Track-er congrats again.

[ruttnbuck]

 :dunno:never have seen a blacktail with a yellow butt looks like a muley to me ,nice buck anyway.

[blacktailer]

A few things to add.  Correct me if I am wrong but 180 grain's statement is true regarding the state record book.  Boone & Crockett does not have a classification for cascade blacktails.  There are simply columbian blacktails and sitka blacktails.  I also believe that there are no field photos REQUIRED to enter an animal in the book.  If he had submitted a photo and cropped out the ass, we would not be having this conversation.  As bow4elk, stated all the measurers would see the tail/rump and call this deer a muley.   I think we all need to keep in mind that there are a lot of official B & C scorers that have neither seen nor scored a blacktail and would simply use B & C boundary descriptions to clarify if or not is is indeed a blacktail.  I know a couple of scorers that have never hunted a day in their lives.  They are antler collectors and that is why they become official scorers.  My point is that just because someone is an official B & C scorer, it doesn't make him an expert in mule deer/blacktail classification.  Bow4elk would definately be an exception.  I would be willing to be that a lot of folks on here know as much or more than the average scorer.  That being said, it is a hell of a buck.  I would call it a blacktail, get is scored in 60 days and let B & C decide what they want to do.  The rest is history,

[huntnphool]

I would call it a blacktail, get is scored in 60 days and let B & C decide what they want to do.

 

[mule deer]

Nice deer.
Question. Are you calling this a blacktail because of the location it was shot?

[Galpster]

I would call it a blacktail, get is scored in 60 days and let B & C decide what they want to do.

 

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[huntnphool]

Welcome to the site mule deer, cant believe that name wasnt taken till now.

[mule deer]

Apparently this question had already been addressed. Sorry about that, I had only read through the first 2 pages of posts before I fired off my question. Tail and ears are huge indicators

[Track-er]

No, because it is a Blacktail and that is what it is.


                          Mike

[Alan K]

If that's not a mule deer I don't know what is.  I don't know how you can refute the rump and tail. . . Regardless, it's one hell of a buck and it doesn't matter what kind of deer it is!

[Red Dawg]

Thanks for sharing your marvelous trophy with us. To bad there are so many deer biologists creeping around your thread. Congrats on a great buck. I will look for it in the B&C book next year. Again congrats on a masher trophy.

[Track-er]

Look at my buck and then look at the poached deer in oregon.They look the same.


                                    Mike

[bullcanyon]

WOW!! Nice buck.  I'd be proud to have shot it no matter where it was.  Sorry Tracker.  That deer is not a blacktail.  That deer is bench at best, but mostly mulie.  Don't matter what someone else called a blacktail south of us.  That deer in the bioligist book is mulie.  We can't change science.

None the less.  Congratulations.  That's gonna be a tough deer to best in this state.  There are bigger, but most of us junkies won't shoot a bigger one.  But than again we gotta try.

[EastWaViking]

Great buck!!!!