Author Topic: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross (Read 14748 times)

buckcanyonlodge · « **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.

huntnnw · « **Reply #1 on:** June 30, 2011, 10:39:26 AM »

Look like whiteys to me

kckrawler · « **Reply #2 on:** June 30, 2011, 11:02:02 AM »

I'd say definitely a crossbreed...Whitey body with Muley gear.

MtnMuley · « **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.

steen · « **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.

Goomsba · « **Reply #5 on:** June 30, 2011, 11:45:04 AM »

Quote from: steen 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.

yakimarcher · « **Reply #6 on:** June 30, 2011, 12:24:21 PM »

Whitetail

PolarBear · « **Reply #7 on:** June 30, 2011, 12:26:30 PM »

Whitey

iRem · « **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?

KNOXY · « **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.

agchawk · « **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.

grundy53 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 30, 2011, 02:17:55 PM »

Quote from: steen 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.

Austrian Hunter · « **Reply #12 on:** June 30, 2011, 02:42:45 PM »

Quote from: KNOXY 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.

Who is that?

Elkrunner · « **Reply #13 on:** June 30, 2011, 03:17:09 PM »

Looks like a shooter to me..but definately a whitey

DBHAWTHORNE · « **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.

carpsniperg2 · « **Reply #15 on:** June 30, 2011, 07:22:10 PM »

I would say whitetail to me. We have had a few whitetail cross with our bench legs here! That makes for some funky deer.

KNOXY · « **Reply #16 on:** June 30, 2011, 08:00:04 PM »

Austrian Hunter: Joe Rasmussen

400out · « **Reply #17 on:** June 30, 2011, 08:07:42 PM »

Quote from: carpsniperg2 on June 30, 2011, 07:22:10 PM

I would say whitetail to me. We have had a few whitetail cross with our bench legs here! That makes for some funky deer.

Throw a goat in the mix LOL

carpsniperg2 · « **Reply #18 on:** June 30, 2011, 08:30:45 PM »

Now maybe if we were in centerville

wsucowboy · « **Reply #19 on:** June 30, 2011, 08:39:01 PM »

Quote from: kckrawler on June 30, 2011, 11:02:02 AM

I'd say definitely a crossbreed...Whitey body with Muley gear.

huntnnw · « **Reply #20 on:** June 30, 2011, 08:50:43 PM »

Head gear is the last thing u look at.. we have taken several bucks that have split tines and all Whitey. I have personally seen one Whitey/ mule deer crossbreed It was a doe...looked somewhat like a mule deer ..ears were smaller..fur coloration like a muley but had a big fluffy whitetail and was in a herd of muley does.

shedcrazy · « **Reply #21 on:** June 30, 2011, 09:11:08 PM »

Measure the metatarsel glands

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