Re: Blacktail deer or hybrid?
Originally Posted by
twoSevenO
Yeah but that's only as far as accepting a species as such. Just because that deer walks back and forth along the reg 2 / reg 3 boundary doesn't make him alternate between mulie or blacktail. He's one or the other.
Records not accepting him into the books when he's on one side is a different issue.
You got that right, plus deer come and go in areas through the years so if there is such thing as an accurate boundary between BT and mule deer its ever changing. Look at it this way no one would deny that its blacktail deer country in the Cascades along the Coq up to the snow shed, tried and true they're there. And if talk about say the Coldwater valley 30 or so clicks up the road its been known for years as mule deer country. Pretty short walk. Same thing happens on the transition out of the coast mountains towards the interior further north.
its gonna take a life time to hunt and fish all this