Bachelor Groups

[zjherna1]

Do coues bucks and muley Bucks ever run together when they're in their bachelor group phase? I have a picture I took from a ways away and there's a couple definite Muley bucks but there is one deer that looks quite a bit smaller and more like a coues. Could it be a hybrid or just a small muley?

[zjherna1]

The buck that I think is the coues is the one farthest to the left. There's a definite body size difference.

[zjherna1]

Here's the pic

[camoremi]

I've seen them together

[Zeke-BE]

I've seen couse does run with mule does. I'm sure it happens

[GreyGhost85]

Not common, but it does happen. Probably not so much that they "run together" but most likely a case being in the same spot at the same time

[ivhunter]

in my side of town I sometimes see muley bucks with donkeys, I've even put into my search notes... find the donkey = good chance a buck is near. So I'm sure it could be possible to see cues and mule deer together.

[rossiranch]

Really ivhunter?! In my neck of the desert I've yet to see deer anywhere close to donkeys. Cows on the other hand are a different story

[carpcody]

I put a stock on an average sized Muley buck with a small forked white tail with him this jan. I ended up blowing the stock but when they took off they each went complete different directions.

[creed]

in my side of town I sometimes see muley bucks with donkeys, I've even put into my search notes... find the donkey = good chance a buck is near. So I'm sure it could be possible to see cues and mule deer together.

 

I have seen the same thing. I have been hunting desert muleys for 50 years and have seen it several times. Last January I saw a 140ish 4x4 with a doe, 3 cows and 5 burros. Saw it again later in the season.

[naturebob]

I seen obamma's Mom with a donkey years ago . How do you think he came about. See ,he is at least half an butt.................BOB!

[Str8Shot]

Not all small forks and spikes hang with Doe ... A bit to hard to tell from the pic, but though I am sure paths cross at times in some ranges, I would bet on a small Muley hanging with the big boys

[ivhunter]

rossiranch.... I've seen it many times in the last 5 yrs I have been chasing bucks. but it also has a lot to do with what's around them or whats making them get together.

[Edge]

Craziest bachelor party, I was living in the S. Utah boonies. Coming back from town one afternoon I saw a large group of bucks in the alfalfa field beside me. They started moving and crossed the road in front of me.

I counted 69 bucks all 3-5 points, but stranger yet, they had a spike elk running with them too.

[MT_Sourdough]

i was twisted-up in some mountains in Montana when I dropped into a hidden valley with a small park. About 3 acres of marshy grass. In the middle of park there was about a dozen cow elk with calves. At three different points close to the perimeter of the park, there were cow moose with calves. It was like a quiet happy nursery until I showed up. Before that day, I never saw moose and elk hanging out like that.