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dej(jed) 06-13-2012 05:42:40 141.189.251.1 Report to Moderator	Well my son and I drew a NE Platte MDCA deer tag for this year, so it looks like we will be in Nebraska in mid Nov. Guys in NE are really upset about having to the draw a mule deer tag. We were told we probably wouldn't get the cheaper tag, but we did. I guess there isn't much resident demand for a mule deer license in that area. I wonder if that means there aren't many mule deer around Ogallala. [Reply]   [No Email]
Royse 06-13-2012 19:44:34 69.36.49.151 Report to Moderator	Re: Hunting/Tractor trip in reply to mike chapman, 06-13-2012 05:42:40   I've never eaten any deer from NE, but here in MI the difference in taste is in how the deer is cleaned. Field & Stream ran an article stating the same thing. So much for "how it's cooked"! [Reply]  [No Email]
funtwohunt 06-13-2012 19:35:10 63.172.252.159 Report to Moderator	Re: Hunting/Tractor trip in reply to dej(jed), 06-13-2012 05:42:40   As far as the deer go in Nebraska, I live in the western part and there areas that hold both, some have more wt than MD, some the other way around. Ogallala area has more MD for the most part because of the range land north of there. A few years ago an uncle and friend shot a MD and a WT on the west end of Lake MacCoughnahey right in the river bottom. Wt seem to go for the farm ground. As far as the taste I have harvested several of both species for 40 years, and I can't taste the difference. As I see it they eat the same grass, corn and alfalfa as the cattle do. Only had one that we couldn't eat because it had the texas heart shot with a large bullet and pretty much ruined it all. funtwohunt [Reply]  [No Email]
Retired Farmer 06-13-2012 10:20:00 207.200.116.74 Report to Moderator	Re: Hunting/Tractor trip in reply to dej(jed), 06-13-2012 05:42:40   Why would anyone want to eat a mule deer anyway? Taste about as good as a nasty antelope does. [Reply]  [No Email]
dej(Jed) 06-13-2012 10:40:51 141.189.251.1 Report to Moderator	Re: Hunting/Tractor trip in reply to Retired Farmer, 06-13-2012 10:20:00   Quoting Removed, click Modern View to see Kind hard to answer that one, cause it sure sounds like you don't like the taste of a mule deer. I haven't eaten one from NE, but the CO ones weren't all that bad. No tellin for taste I guess. [Reply]  [No Email]
dej(Jed) 06-13-2012 09:14:04 141.189.251.1 Report to Moderator	Re: Hunting/Tractor trip in reply to dej(jed), 06-13-2012 05:42:40   Quoting Removed, click Modern View to see Hearing you guys talk makes me think there are a lot of people in NE who will not be hunting mulies in any of the MDCA areas this year. NE went to a draw in the MDCA areas. The draw is over. You can still buy a WT tag, but the muley tags are gone. [Reply]  [No Email]
LazyWP 06-13-2012 05:47:44 184.20.74.98 Report to Moderator	Re: Hunting/Tractor trip in reply to dej(jed), 06-13-2012 05:42:40   As far as I know, a person doesn't have to choose between a Whitetail, or a Mule deer, in Nebraska. Anyway, I have shot both. Residents can buy deer tags as long as they are available. I won't buy mine until late October. [Reply]  [No Email]
Arnold Layne 06-13-2012 07:23:13 66.146.251.170 Report to Moderator	Re: Hunting/Tractor trip in reply to LazyWP, 06-13-2012 05:47:44   Yeah, If you bag a mule deer on a standard tag you will be in a jam about the time you try to check in. Don't remember when it changed. Mule permit is available, here in so. central NE there are not a bunch of them around anymore. [Reply]  [No Email]
Huskers86 06-13-2012 10:59:41 64.147.33.30 Report to Moderator	Re: Hunting/Tractor trip in reply to Arnold Layne, 06-13-2012 07:23:13   In my part of south central Nebraska we have a ton of mules, they out number the whitetail by quite a bit. The state and their infinate wisdom decided to not allow mule hunting a couple years or so ago. Game and parks also doesn't admit to placing mountain lions around here either but they are around all of a sudden. [Reply]  [No Email]
Arnold Layne 06-13-2012 11:41:54 66.146.251.170 Report to Moderator	Re: Hunting/Tractor trip in reply to Huskers86, 06-13-2012 10:59:41   No kidding? I mainly range around Clay, Adams, Webster, Nuckolls and Kearney counties. I doubt that I have seen half a dozen mulies in the last ten years, but about a billion whitetail. The last mule buck I bagged was 1986 in Nuckolls county. [Reply]  [No Email]
Huskers86 06-13-2012 15:28:24 64.147.33.30 Report to Moderator	Re: Hunting/Tractor trip in reply to Arnold Layne, 06-13-2012 11:41:54   Yep, southwest phelps,furnas,gospher and a little bit of ------ counties has them. [Reply]  [No Email]