Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting Mule deer vs. Whitetail- which would you shoot?

Ok gang, let me be a bit less subtle, which of the two do you feel will be easier to find on that property...grin

Dober

Though, I'd really love a shot at a big Mulie. The biggest Mulie I can find around here lives at Cabela's! [/quote]

LOL,

We don't even have a Cabela's within a reasonable drive!!

From all I here, the whitetail, as really good Mule deer are very hard and expensive to find.

guessing, but I'd say the Mule Deer.

What I'm saying is you've found a area with both, money's not the Q here. Say a big private ranch with both on it, is the muley or the whitey gonna be easier to find and grass?

Dober

My answer would be neither, unless it's during the rut. IME/IMO a whitetail is much more patternable and predictable. For me and my gang personally, killing a 140 " whitetail is no big trick, but after 39 years I only have a handful of 170" mule deer, 2 190's, a 1 over 200". We can't hunt the rut here for mule deer, if we could I'd have probably 4 or 5 more 200" bucks. I got within 50 yards of this beast last December, during the rut, a month after the season closed...

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It is irrelevant what you think. What matters is the TRUTH.

In an area where the two coexist I would say the whitetail might be a tad easier to find.

Probably not fair for me to chime in..... BUT, being from Iowa and having 5 Whitetails on the wall over 170", its MULEY ALL THE WAY!!!! In fact, I have a Trophy Desert muley booked for this winter! I have waited long enough and I agree....trying to find and shoot a nice/big muley is one hard deal these days. Whitetails....not so much. But than again, I live in whitetail heaven so I am a lil spoiled in that aspect.

Damnation my friend! Where you going muley hunting?

Pics man pics! I am a whitey freak and whitey's that go 170 are totally incredible. Side note, is that net or gross?

Dober

Dober, trick question....grin



Is this whitetail or mule deer country?



180 degrees to the west.


10 clicks to the east.

Sorry partner but I'll take the shot on a 190 whitetail anyday over a 170 mulie buck. But then I'd prolly miss and you would bag it!

Since I wouldn't know how to score it if my life depended on it...I'd shoot the best of whatever showed up. In this neck of the woods any WT that is over 125lbs is a big deer. Mulies, Elk, etc, are a one of these days dream. I'm envious of my fellow hunters who have those opportunities to hunt something besides WT deer.

You Pecker.

Cool.... western whitetails are stupid.

I'm in the berries, out there.

Heck, for all I know, ours out east might stop to look back, too. The only problem is that there'd be a ridge, or a thicket, or another county in the way by the time they did...

Ain't that the gospel truth.

You, uhhhh, SUCK.

Either opportunity at a true trophy class buck would be a blessing, especialy the DIY way I hunt when I get the time to go out west. Good luck on Your hunt.

Gunner

OK.... i will post pics later today/this evening. I have 9 over 160", 5 of which go over 170". If you added the ones I did not shoot....but have "swamped hunts" adn guided fellas to....well.... add a couple more 170-180 bucks the last few yrs and about 8-9 more in the 160" arena. I will post some of those pics as well.

Some get there by mass--- some by points---some just have it all! None of them over OVERLY wide! I dont want to hi-jack this thread so i will start a new one with "deer hunting". All of them have been taken wiht a bow or a muzzleloader and all here in Iowa.

Oh---the net/gross question.... that is gross. I have NEVER entered one into the book, nor do i plan on it. If a deer grows it, he deserves credit for it IMO.

I absolutely love that sentiment. Good on you.
Now, PICTS MAN, PICTS!