Strange looking buck - hybrid?

J.B.

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Snapped these pics at our shop the other day in Lethbridge AB where we have a good population of both muleys and whitetails. At first glance I thought it was a muley, but his butt and tail looked off. I believe hybrids are rare, and most bucks people think are hybrids are not…curious on RS thoughts?
 

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The tail does have more hair and missing the white/lightness at the top half of the tail than what I’m used to seeing.
 
I remember reading that Whitetail does will NOT let a muley mount them but a mule doe will let a Whitetail buck breed her…..either way their offspring is sterile. That buck is hard horned. My guess is if it were a true hybrid it wouldn’t have Nutz therefore it would be a Stag Buck & carry velvet all year…….I dunno
 

There is a good picture of a supposed hybrid buck in this article.
 
I remember reading that Whitetail does will NOT let a muley mount them but a mule doe will let a Whitetail buck breed her…..either way their offspring is sterile. That buck is hard horned. My guess is if it were a true hybrid it wouldn’t have Nutz therefore it would be a Stag Buck & carry velvet all year…….I dunno

I'm pretty sure that isn't really how it works.
 
Looks like a muley to me but whatever u think.
Well it is or isn’t. Not whatever I think. Lets leave that shit in the universities lol.

Like I said at first glance it looked like a muley, but it lacks the prominent white rump, though there is some of that present. The tail also is much larger than the average mule deer, and while black tipped, the rest of it looks like a whitetail tail. Maybe it is indeed a plain old muley.
 
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