Western WT

[TradLife406]

Any of my fellow westies almost prefer hunting whitetails over elk and mulies? For me I absolutely love spending an entire day on a river bluff watching cotton wood river bottoms in November. Kicked back with snacks, an audio book and a cigar behind the glass.
Didn't do much of this last year but I'm planning two solid weeks of it this year.

Backpack hunts are fun and challenging but this is what I grew up doing so it's always fun to do it.

 

[jimmy33]

Im not sure I prefer WT to mule deer but I like both of them the same. I definitely prefer deer to elk. I hunt North ID and NE WA and dont ever want to miss an opportunity to chase WT during late November.


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[TacoTaylor]

Something about Idaho and WA whitetails has been interesting me more and more. I think I’m finally going to commit some time and do more this year. Any tips from you guys would be appreciated. I’ve got a good ID mule deer tag this year but would like to get out in November as well for whitetails

 

[guscottie]

I can honestly say that I love hunting the white tails in many states. I've had great success in Wa, Montana and Wyoming chasing the random WT in the mule deer sage country.

 

[Coveyleader]

Without a doubt.

 

[7RemMag]

I don’t know that I necessarily like hunting whitetails more, but I definitely hunt them a lot more. I like chasing mule deer, but in a handful of years of hunting and living in the West I’ve never killed one, or even really hunted them all that hard. I drew a pretty sweet limited deer(muleytag in WY though. Hopefully this will be the year I knock down a muley. No doubt some of the allure for whitetail is that there’s an abundance of them in the Black Hills of WY, 10 minutes out my driveway. Sometimes you can’t beat convenience.

 

[HiMtnHntr]

I love it. I’ve spent most of my hunting life hiking mountains after deer and elk or hunting antelope, so I really enjoy when I get the opportunity to hunt whitetail. I don’t do but every other year or so.

 

[Coyote Commander]

My problem with mule deer is it takes a HECK of a buck to impress me anymore.

150-160 mule deer just aren't that impressive, and even those are hard to come by anymore!

Not to mention, whitetails are far more challenging of an animal. When you go mule deer hunting, you really aren't up again the animal, you're up against the terrain. They're pretty dumb animals. Nothing dumber than a 2 year old mule deer buck.

That being said, I've never shot a truly good mule deer. Its on my list. But it seems to be getting harder and harder to get these days.

Everybody comes out to shoot a mulie, they more or less leave the whitetails alone, so I go whitetail hunting, and they leave me alone too.