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We found this kill a few years ago. I'll ask you......whitetail or mule deer? 
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Looks like a whitetail to me but who knows
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Looks like it could go either way or maybe both. Regardless he was a nice deer.
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JG - whatever y'all decide is fine w/me   Regardless - that's a super buck IMO. Do you have a pic from a diff angle?
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I do not have another pic. He has forked #1's on both sides though.....up high.
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Maybe a crossbreed? I do believe they can interbreed? It's a hoss, either way!
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Hard to tell from that angle but I'd sure drop the hammer on him. 
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Im saying mule deer on this one
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Could be either but would say more of a chance that a mule deer
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Tough to tell from the angle put I'll put in for whitetail. Nice deer regardless.
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happiness is elbow deep in elk guts.
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It's a whitemule deer.
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Im saying mule deer on this one
Me too.
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I am thinking mule deer. I hunted Wyoming a few years back with my dad and brother in law and they killed muleys with some definite whitetail characteristics......made me think that where they overlap, there must be some cross breeding. In fact, the one my brother in law killed looked a lot like that one. Mine looked a lot more like a typical mule deer. They all came out of the same general area within 48 hours of each other.
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WT.... Either way, Id be proud to hang that buck in my house.
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Seeing a buck like that could be real interesting if it was legal to shoot a whitetail, but not a mulie, or the other way around. A guy might have to flip a coin, then get on the rifle.
Good looking set of antlers, whatever they are!
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Im saying mule deer on this one
Me too. Me three.
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Leaning whitetail on it. Nice buck.
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I took that skull to a biologist in Midland. He verified it as 100% whitetail. We gross scored the buck at 191 and change. I asked the landowner and his ranch hand if they'd ever seen that buck, and of course the answer was, of course, "no". Helluva buck, huh?
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You got me. 
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