What species is this critter?

[Duffy]

The pics do not posatively show it is a white-tail as the tail is not shown in enough detail. Check out these Black-tail views.

It could be a black tail. The distance from where blacktails are "normally" found is not proof that it isn't.

Robin down under

 

[BigUglyMan]

A Yak of some description.

 

[ILoveBigRacks]

Looks like a whitetail/mulie hybrid to me. We've shot a couple of those over the last 6 or 7 years up near Swan Hills, AB. Rack and ears of a mulie - tail of a whitetail, colouring can be either or.

Then again, I've never really seen a blacktail so if that's what they look like, so be it.


BTW, all of our deer get hung upside down from the meat poles. The also get skinned out that way - just like the pic - down to the neck and then off with the head, hide and all. Unless of course we're taking a cape.

 

[stubblejumper]

Duffy-Great pictures.They show the branched antlers and a tail with a white underside just like a whitetail.They even run with the tail up like a whitetail.I am sure that most people that chose whitetail on this poll would think that the deer in your pictures is a whitetail.

 

[Calum]

A Yak of some description.

You would have to mention Yaks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xji9Z-vMkKE

 

[the_big_mike]

the tails look too small on those pictures there duffy for the deer to be a blacktail.

 

[grouseman]

without a doubt its is a whitetail........look at how long the flag is and look at the face.....mule deer have a shorty almost rounded tip on their tail.....those guys put a muley tag on a whitetail buck

 

[horshur]

Did you guys look at the picture I posted???? It is the same deer.

 

[ILoveBigRacks]

Did you guys look at the picture I posted???? It is the same deer.

Exactly. In the pic you posted, that face, ears and rack look a hell of a lot like a mulie buck to me. The tail on the other hand and the brownish colour (don't see much grey tones in there) looks like whitetail.

Hybrid!! Hybrid!!! Hybrid!!!!

 

[stubblejumper]

Hybrid!! Hybrid!!! Hybrid!!!!

Or simply a blacktail which has a white underside to it's tail and often has mule deer like antlers. If you look up the blacktail online,you will see that many people confuse it for a whitetail/mule cross.

 

[bisonhd]

Whitetail? No wonder so many 3 pt mulies get inadvertantly shot during Whitetail season.

In BC we have Whitetail tags and Mule/Blacktail deer tags because Mule deer and Blacktail commonly interbreed in overlapping area's, such as the area wher this particular deer was taken.

 

[Silverado]

Having never seen a Blacktail, but after looking at those pics, I could believe that's a Blacktail.

If a Mulie tag is valid on a Blacktail, fair enough.

I still say that's no Mule deer though.