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Originally posted by myway View PostNow will agree to disagree there😊. There areas and range of where they travel hang out are totally separate and I believe it can sustain both with the limited#s there are. Kill all sheep as well?
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Mule Deer population is way down in general across the west though. It's not just local to Texas. There are other things killing them off, some of it whitetails moving into Mule Deer territory, along with whitetails breeding with MD does (That's why so many 3x3's). We watched a couple of whitetails run off MD bucks in New Mexico and breed the MD doe. Crazy scene.
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I agree with this 100%. We have more Mule Deer on our lease that we do whitetail. But most of the numbers of Mule deer are made up of does. It's not uncommon for me to see 15-20 Mule deer does in one sit. Some of the Mule deer does we have are very old and very poor body condition. I have often thought they should keep the Mule deer buck season the same 2 week length ( to help control the number of harvests) and then have an extended for season where there would be able to be at least something that resembled management for Mule deer.
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Originally posted by WItoTX View PostMule Deer population is way down in general across the west though. It's not just local to Texas. There are other things killing them off, some of it whitetails moving into Mule Deer territory, along with whitetails breeding with MD does (That's why so many 3x3's). We watched a couple of whitetails run off MD bucks in New Mexico and breed the MD doe. Crazy scene.
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Originally posted by TexasTealHunter View PostI am in Armstrong county so this wont affect me, however there is zero mule deer doe season in this county and at times you can count 30-40 doe per 1-2 bucks... Why can we not shoot doe here is ask?
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Originally posted by myway View PostI hunt Briscoe and just spent a week there. I would bet most of the commune in same places are feed station areas or wheatfield no?
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Originally posted by panhandlehunter View PostI agree with this. It's was also pretty easy to get mule deer doe tags. I think we were getting around 8 doe tags for 4K acres. But it was nothing to see 100+ does in our wheat field.
We get the max for our acreage, which I think is 15 for 22k.
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Originally posted by txarcher View PostNo sir. Here, they travel together and bed down together. I watch them throughout the year when checking cows. I see far more mule deer than I do whitetails simply because we have more mule deer. I have never seen a whitetail though that wasn't with mule deer in this part of the world.
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