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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: buckcanyonlodge on June 30, 2011, 08:26:26 AM

Title: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: huntnnw on June 30, 2011, 10:39:26 AM: Look like whiteys to me
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: kckrawler on June 30, 2011, 11:02:02 AM: I'd say definitely a crossbreed...Whitey body with Muley gear. :twocents:
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: MtnMuley 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:
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: Goomsba 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.
:yeah:
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: yakimarcher on June 30, 2011, 12:24:21 PM: Whitetail
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: PolarBear on June 30, 2011, 12:26:30 PM: Whitey
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: iRem 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:
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: agchawk 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.
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: grundy53 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.

:yeah:
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: Austrian Hunter 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?
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: Elkrunner on June 30, 2011, 03:17:09 PM: Looks like a shooter to me..but definately a whitey
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: DBHAWTHORNE 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.
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coueswhitetail.com%2Fcoues_biology%2Fjason-montagna-hybrid.jpg&hash=e5d815487dccf16f6e9e6f124b3a4a7fd967f698)
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: KNOXY on June 30, 2011, 08:00:04 PM: Austrian Hunter: Joe Rasmussen
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: 400out 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.
:yike: Throw a goat in the mix LOL
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: carpsniperg2 on June 30, 2011, 08:30:45 PM: :chuckle: Now maybe if we were in centerville :chuckle:
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: wsucowboy 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. :twocents:
:yeah:
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: huntnnw 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.
Title: Re: Whitetail-Mule Deer Cross
Post by: shedcrazy on June 30, 2011, 09:11:08 PM: Measure the metatarsel glands