Blacktail deer or hybrid?

[twoSevenO]

Don't have a tail pic of the buck's behind, but it was the same as the doe.

Pic taken in reg 3 alpine. Blacktail, or mulie-blacktail hybrid?

[butthead]

muley deer buck

[S.W.A.T.]

What is the difference between a blacktail and a mule?

Or do you mean whitetail a

[Cosmonewt]

is this the Columbian Black tail ?

[twoSevenO]

What is the difference between a blacktail and a mule?

Or do you mean whitetail a

Not I don't mean whitetail.

While mule deer and blacktail deer are hunted on the same tag they are, in fact, different. Mulie deer have skinny white tails with black tips. Blacktails generally have a little wider tail that is all black. Blacktail are generally smaller as well including smaller antlers.

[twoSevenO]

is this the Columbian Black tail ?

It's in reg 3 so it couldn't possibly be a Sitka blacktail as far as I'm aware.

[Rupert Retired]

Looks like a hybrid to me. I have seen hybrids around EE Manning Park, a white bum and a blacktail tail. This is sort of like that. For purposes of scoring, there are defined boundaries that specify where there are mule deer and blacktail, for sure Region 3 is mule deer country. However, if you get a booner, they may take DNA and decide which category to put it in, they have been doing that now for a few years, to settle these types of disputes with big bucks in Oregon and California, probably Washington as well.

This could also be a hybrid mule deer / whitetail, they do occur and in Region 3 that may be more likely.

[Salty]

Blacktail top - small patch of white on the rump outside of tail mostly black
Mule botom - large patch of white on the rump outside of tail mostly white with a black tip

[ducktoller]

Looks like a columbia bt. The whole 316/17/33 etc area has hybrids too

[TexasWalker]

That's a blacktail.