Whitetail

[coues4x4]

I was talking to a buddy from work, and of course the topic was couesdeer. He mentioned that there were eastern whitetail or whitetail other than couesdeer here in AZ.I thought he might of seen a hybred but he said the G&F verified it.Now are these people seeing things or are there other deer in AZ besides coues and mulie?

[CRB]

not to be rude but whomever he talked to might be a good person to buy smoke from. as far as I or anyone else Ive ever talked to hmmmmmm Only domesticated fallow deer or In safford theres some pet texas whites But then again maybe you guys are right If you are I'd sure like to know.

[coues4x4]

Thats exactly what I thought,good smoke or maybe they stumbled on a secret stash somewhere.Anyway I only know of the coues and mulie inhabitating AZ according to all the habitat maps.

[coues4x4]

My buddy said that the deer he saw had a body like a mule deer but it definitely was a whitetail.

[.270]

used to be a guy in safford had some texas whiteys in his backyard. them are the only ones i know of. all we have in nature is coues and muleys. Lark.

[coues4x4]

THats what I thought. Thanks Lark.

[coueshunter84]

let me add this one to this whole thought process. There is a Barber over here in Benson, who has a rather large whitetail in his back room (140-150" range and maybe bigger). One day I asked him about it thinking it was an eastern. He told me that he killed it in the Santa Ritas. And went on to explain that at some point "way back when " that the Game and Fish had transplanted several eastern/ texas whitetails into several areas in AZ as a "restocking program". That was the first and last time I have ever heard anyone make a statement like that. I never followed up on it. But either way its significantly large, and definately a whitetail of some sort.

 

Bill Q any perspective on that statement? Or anyone else for that matter. Now I'm curious.

 

 

 

Shane

[Rembrant]

Part of a lot of folk's way of making a living is by shooting the breeze and sounding like they know what they're talking about. I think barbers fit into that catagory pretty well.

Mike

[billrquimby]

let me add this one to this whole thought process.  There is a Barber over here in Benson, who has a rather large whitetail in his back room (140-150" range and maybe bigger). One day I asked him about it thinking it was an eastern. He told me that he killed it in the Santa Ritas.  And went on to explain that at some point "way back when " that the Game and Fish had transplanted several eastern/ texas whitetails into several areas in AZ as a "restocking program". That was the first and last time I have ever heard anyone make a statement like that.  I never followed up on it. But either way its significantly large, and definately a whitetail of some sort.

 

Bill Q any perspective on that statement?  Or anyone else for that matter. Now I'm curious.

 

Shane

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I can't say that Game and Fish did or didn't stock whitetails from other states in Arizona. I personally doubt it, though.

 

A lot of dumb things were done early on, such as stocking carp (the wonder fish of the early 1900s) and setting aside dozens of 100-500 acre "game refuges" all over the place so deer and quail would have safe havens to escape hunters.

 

I do know that they did move a few mule deer from northern Arizona to the Tucson Mountains, and probably elsewhere, too.

 

Bill Q