hunter4life Report post Posted December 17, 2009 Here is a NM whitetail that is still roaming the hills as far as I know. Pic was taken in October this year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WFGinNM Report post Posted December 17, 2009 Hunter4life, That's a real nice picture, thanks for sharing. Someday I'd like to hunt the NM bigger whitetails. --Bill Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shylopolito Report post Posted December 17, 2009 I've made the trip through Cloudcroft many times, seeing whitetail many of the times. I always wondered what kind of whitetail they could be? Saw a huge 4 by there once, but wasn't lucky enough to snap a picture. Made the trip through there this past weekend, and saw four whitetail does. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kilimanjaro Report post Posted December 17, 2009 I'll be in Cloudcroft/Ruidoso for a week right after New Years.. I'll keep my eyes peeled while there. We used to hunt the Weed area for turkeys and there were always rumors of TX WTs having moved into the country.. Guess it was true! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZn8tiv Report post Posted December 17, 2009 Hunter4life, That's a real nice picture, thanks for sharing. Someday I'd like to hunt the NM bigger whitetails. --Bill I like that, "bigger whitetails"! I'll use that..... There's Coues and Bigger Whitetail Seriously though, good thread. Got a few laughs and learned something too. Bill, sitting around a campfire with you telling stories would be a treat! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LCconvert Report post Posted December 21, 2009 Bill, I certainly appreciate the lesson. I think we need to be more educated about these things and then act the part. I have met several long time hunters who think there are two species of whitetail in Arizona, coues and whitetail!! In fact, same goes for bears, black and brown. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
soazarcher Report post Posted December 21, 2009 According to this months "Arizona Highways" we have two species of whitetail, ranging from 125-300 pounds. Guess I'm not looking hard enough.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Claw Report post Posted December 21, 2009 Those 300 lb'ers are all over unit 31........lol!!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZn8tiv Report post Posted December 22, 2009 Those 300 lb'ers are all over unit 31........lol!!!!! Lol, not anymore, Tines took care of that .... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billrquimby Report post Posted December 22, 2009 According to this months "Arizona Highways" we have two species of whitetail, ranging from 125-300 pounds. Guess I'm not looking hard enough.... I've not seen Arizona Highways this month. Did it really say "two species of whitetail?" Gosh! Not only is there just one type of whitetail in Arizona, there is only one species of white-tailed deer in the entire world. The thirty types of whitetails found across North and Central America and the nine types in South America are all subspecies of the single species, Odocoileus virginianus. Bill Quimby Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
soazarcher Report post Posted December 22, 2009 Yeah, pretty bad for AH. Author Keridwen Cornelius states " White-tailed and coues deer (a wt SUBspecies) roam the southern half of the state" About the "125 to 300 lbs" it did say "coues white-taileds are even smaller" I didn't catch that the first time around. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
.270 Report post Posted December 22, 2009 heck, i bet i read or hear someone call a javelina a rodent a dozen times a year. saw some idiot on a hunting show call em that the other day. i even heard bob hirsch say it on his radio show once. misnomer on a whitetail ain't near that bad. i know folks that insist their are 2 coues deer, the regular one and the mythical "fantail". Lark. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WFGinNM Report post Posted January 1, 2011 Just bringing this back up, I'm curious if anyone has had anymore encounters or heard rumors of the bigger whitetails in NM. I'm planning this coming years hunting wishlist and want to include this type of hunt. --Bill Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blade53 Report post Posted January 3, 2011 Heres a thought. I have used the term Eastern whitetail on many occassions, not because I didnt know there were differant sub species of whitetail but mainly to seperate them by location from the smaller western Coues whitetail deer. So I called them eastern whitetails due to their location. To us western boys the big whitetailed deer were predominantly known to live in the eastern states, and the smaller ones (coues) lived in small pockets of the west, it wasnt to many years ago that I first heard that whitetails were migrating into montana, and other places that surprized the heck outa me. guess its kinda like saying, you have eastern boys, western boys, southern boys, northern boys, big ones, small ones, fat ones skinny ones, their all of the human race but nick named to be classified by location. Now we will just have to clarify better, eastern whitetail, canadian whitetail, western whitetail? the big ones or the little ones? texas whitetail, and now New Mexico, WOW who wooda thunk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
