It is more than a rare occasion where whitetails and muley both live. About 5 miles east of me is big basin.Water and brushy draws on the bottom with a lot of open country on the sides. Both live there. CPW has taken quite a few samples and confirmed the crosses as this ranch use to be in the RFW program and kills were recorded.
East of I-25 there are lot of whitetail only tags given out. The whitetail bucks are more aggressive than the muleys and more territorial. They drive the muley bucks off and will breed with any deer in estrus. CPW wants to stop them from moving further west into more muley favored country.
I have both here on my place. Mostly muleys, but come the rut, the muleys are chasing the few whitetail does around as much a the muley does. I don't see many whitetail bucks here though.
Last edited by saddlesore; 08/14/22.
