^^^^^^all the research I have done agrees with this....whitetail and blacktails made muleys
It's a mule blacktail hybrid. Fact of the matter is that the regs treat the two as the same species so it's only academic. I know areas where the majority of the deer have tails like this. Also seen in the same area would the traditional muley and blacktail tails.
Yup it's been discussed many times on this site over the years ...
Blacktails on the island where there's no mule deer at all and so hybridization to consider don't always have pure black tails top to bottom some have some brown up top much like the OP. The OP looks like a plain old Columbia blacktail to me.
island BT-
Last edited by Salty; 10-11-2017 at 03:48 PM.
its gonna take a life time to hunt and fish all this
So does anyone have a pic of what would be considered an ACTUAL hybrid?
I'd now like to see a hybrid one. Everyone talks about them around the reg2 / reg3 boundaries but I've yet to see on that a majority would agree was an actual hybrid.
Or is it simply such a grey area wed never collectively agree on whether any individual deer is a blacktail or hybrid?