We have both whitetail and mule deer here so of course I hunt both.
Pre-rut it would be a toss up for me, both are great. Whitetails on the corn and alfalfa diet are a little bland, mule deer have a little more flavor.
Rutting whitetail are okay, last rutting mule deer I shot was pretty foul.
I have about the same opinion. Mule deer shot in Colorado on the slopes covered with scrub oak that had plenty of acorns to eat tastes the same as whitetails that have been eating acorns from oak trees in east Texas. I have only had one bad tasting deer,a mulie killed about 30 miles north of Yellowstone park. It was killed during the week of Thanksgiving and was really bad. I wish I knew what he had been eating but they were also rutting.
