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Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
« on: June 30, 2011, 08:26:26 AM »
Check out this buck. We think it was a cross. It had a whitetail tail but it was only about 3 inches long. This buck was with three mule deer does during the late whitetail hunt in the Huckleberry Unit. We took another buck---2nd photo-- in the same area the last day of the late season that was running with two mule deer does and a whitetail doe. It had a normal whitetail tail but the antlers were forked.
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Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2011, 10:39:26 AM »
Look like whiteys to me

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Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2011, 11:02:02 AM »
I'd say definitely a crossbreed...Whitey body with Muley gear.  :twocents:
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Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2011, 11:06:59 AM »
100% whiteys to me.  I have many sheds from whiteys that split on one or several of the tines.  Doesn't mean it's a cross. :twocents:

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Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2011, 11:08:44 AM »
Lots of whitetails can have forks.  The face is all whitetail to me and the body color.  If the tail is whitetail I see no muley in there but those does might being carrying crosses.

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Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2011, 11:45:04 AM »
Lots of whitetails can have forks.  The face is all whitetail to me and the body color.  If the tail is whitetail I see no muley in there but those does might being carrying crosses.
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Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2011, 12:24:21 PM »
Whitetail

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Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2011, 12:26:30 PM »
Whitey

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Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2011, 12:34:11 PM »
Sounds like it could be a cross. You have to think that it may be a cross and the genes have passed through several times and over time the dominante gene wins. So with a crossbreed you will have traits that will out way others over time?  :dunno:

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Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
« Reply #9 on: June 30, 2011, 12:35:57 PM »
I know an outfitter up there he's being guiding for over 25 yrs and in the last 4yrs he has had a few of his clients get "Mule-tails",  units he takes his clients are Huckleberry, 49 Degrees, and Mt. Spokane.


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Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
« Reply #10 on: June 30, 2011, 12:38:17 PM »
Sure looks like a whitetail to me, at least from the one pic you posted for us. From that one pic I do not see anything that would suggest mule deer or mule/whitetail cross.

Here's a pic of the whitetail I took in Idaho this last fall. He is most certainly 100% whitetail but also has one forked tine.

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Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
« Reply #11 on: June 30, 2011, 02:17:55 PM »
Lots of whitetails can have forks.  The face is all whitetail to me and the body color.  If the tail is whitetail I see no muley in there but those does might being carrying crosses.

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Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
« Reply #12 on: June 30, 2011, 02:42:45 PM »
I know an outfitter up there he's being guiding for over 25 yrs and in the last 4yrs he has had a few of his clients get "Mule-tails",  units he takes his clients are Huckleberry, 49 Degrees, and Mt. Spokane.

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Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
« Reply #13 on: June 30, 2011, 03:17:09 PM »
Looks like a shooter to me..but definately a whitey

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Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
« Reply #14 on: June 30, 2011, 06:54:22 PM »
I think it is 100% whitetail but sometimes it is hard to tell. Here is a confirmed mule/whitey cross.
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