If forced to pick, for this part of the world, I'd take a whitetail. A young pre-rut muley buck can be darn good though. In the rut, whitetail buck hands down is better eating
I used to buy extra antlerless tags and would give the deer to non-hunters or older people who liked eating deer but could no longer hunt. I've never had any of these people say "shoot me a mule deer doe" They always requested a whitetail doe.
