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The only crosses I have seen in person are Mule/Coues, so no experience here. But, I do agree with Barry's assessment.

that definitely could be a cross. Looks like a whitetail cape with a mulie'ish rack. Splits and no brows.

The OP is dreaming though, straight up young mulie.

Id say 100% Whitetail.
Look at those ears and cape.

That be a mule deer.

I don't disagree, but that's a weird rack for a whitetail.

OP needs to look at more deer. Muley all the way.

Prolly gets FM.




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Same here. I've seen a couple verifiable crosses, and he doesnt look like one of them.

. Some don’t seem to be racist as for pussy. Never saw offspring

Hybrid threads are freaking hilarious...

I shot this one last fall where whitetails and muleys run.He was running with some muley does. I didn't pay much attention to his tails, but his antlers, what there was, sure looked like a cross. The off side was smaller yet.

CPW claims the off spring of crossed whitetail/muley will look pretty close to the one that bred it it , That is if a crossed doe is bred to a whitetail buck the offspring will look like whitetail .If to a muley buck, it will look like a muley.

Yep, they're right up there with the infamous black cougar threads.

Not doubting some cross-breeding can occur on a rare occasion, but every time somebody kills or sees a whitetail with forked G-2 it becomes a cross. Every 1.5 to 2.5 yo muley buck seen or killed without a forked G-2 is a whitetail/muley cross.

This 👆 x 100!!!!

Some years back, Montana did a study on mule, whitetail crosses. They were noting the expansion of whitetail. Maybe the article could be found, in Montana fish and wildlife files. It will answer lots of questions. Where I live the mule deer, blacktail crosses are common. The trophy books don't allow blacktail from my county. Step across the line the mulie becomes a blacktail, for tagging purposes!

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.