Mule-whitetail hybrid - what tag?

[KootenayKiller]

Yesterday I saw what were clearly muley-WT hybrids in an area where they overlap. Got me wondering, what tag would you cut? Is there even a season for them?

[high horse Hal]

lol
what parts are required to keep for transport, to prove species and sex? thats your answer

[Walking Buffalo]

Hybrids? Plural? As in more than one?

You "Clearly" saw evidence of these were hybrids?

Tell us how you determined these deer were hybrids?

What tag?
I probably wouldn't use a moose tag...

[KootenayKiller]

They were hopping like mule deer when they ran, big bodied and had those greyish muley tones to their coloration. Big bushy WT tails, but extra long and with black in the backside of them. Just like in the photo in this article.


https://www.themeateater.com/conserv...deer-hybridize

One of them was a big buck with a sizeable rack. Didn't have a chance to get a proper look at it. The does stopped within sight in the woods, and I got a good long look at their tails. There was a fawn too, that had the same type of tail. Would be pretty difficult to know which tag to cut if the buck had a muley antler configuration with a WT tail lol. Exactly like the buck in the linked article.

[Downwindtracker2]

We saw one while road hunting, so we had the regs with us. . By the time we figured what it was and read the regs, it had wandered off. A white tail tag was required.

[elker]

We saw one while road hunting, so we had the regs with us. . By the time we figured what it was and read the regs, it had wandered off. A white tail tag was required.

If you had both tags, just shoot then. I always have two mules and two whities

[Walking Buffalo]

Use your WT tag, because they were whitetails.


Understand the physiological effects of second generation hybridization and general fertility rates of these hybrids, and you'll understand what you witnessed was not a group of hybrids.

[BearSupreme]

Ahhh I love when people tell other people what they saw or didnt see ��

[Downwindtracker2]

At the time, whitetails weren't thought to be in that area. A few years later,we were in a general store and a guy came in asking to buy a whitetail tag.

[digger dogger]

12+ yrs ago or so, a young man that worked at Fred’s in Chwk, killed a blk tail/mulie.
It had the smaller ears and chunky antlers, and a white ass and tail with a black tip.

I’ve seen quite a few pics of white tails in the Chwk valley, and have seen one myself, all have been does.