Central plateau whitetail

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What is a central plateau whitetail? I came in from fence fixin' and while havin' a spam and cheese samwich for lunch I saw some hunting show and that's what they hunted. Looked like a coues. Never heard of em before. Lark

[Snapshot]

I love Spam & Cheese. I was born in Austin, MN where they make the stuff. whole town smells like nasty spam.

 

Central plateau in Mexico.

[wildwoody]

Yummy

[wish2hunt]

All you need is a little onion on that.

[Snapshot]

The info I looked up lists the Whitetail as the Central plateau highland species which Is different from the Coues?

[billrquimby]

Hey, Lark:

 

It's a term that was invented for the SCI record book. I was the SCI record book's editor in the 1980s when its record book committee decided that whitetail antlers varied in size so much from region-to-region that the book needed more categories to be fair to members who hunted in areas with smaller deer.

 

At the time, the Boone & Crockett book offered only a couple of categories for the 17 different subspecies of whitetails in the U.S. and Canada (there are 20 or more in Mexico, central America and South America). There was no support for having dozens of categories for one species, so the committee created eight new categories to cover all of North America.

 

My friend Craig Boddington drew the boundaries using state lines or major roads for boundaries.

 

More categories were added after I retired.

 

The gulf coast, Mexican texanus and central plateau categories were created later at the request of Mexican members who believe there are great differences between the various subspecies in their country.

 

One of my clients owned a bunch of live so-called central plateau deer at his ranch an hour or so from Mexico City and I spent an hour in his enclosure watching them. Darned if I could tell them from the Texas Hill Country whitetails I've shot.

 

For that matter, although I was never fortunate to have hunted them, I never could find a visual difference from our Coues deer in the dozens of photos of trophy bucks of the Carmen Mountain subspecies from Texas and Mexico that came across my desk when I edited Safari magazine and the SCI record book.

 

Bill Quimby

[naturebob]

Of all of them I like the Coues the best. I see alot of Dakota Whitetail up here and the don't excite me like a Coues.............BOB!