Hunting/Tractor trip

dej(Jed) · Jun 13, 2012

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.

LazyWP · Jun 13, 2012

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.

Arnold Layne · Jun 13, 2012

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.

dej(Jed) · Jun 13, 2012

(quoted from post at 05:42:40 06/13/12) 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.

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.

retired farmer · Jun 13, 2012

Why would anyone want to eat a mule deer anyway? Taste about as good as a nasty antelope does.

dej(Jed) · Jun 13, 2012

(quoted from post at 10:20:00 06/13/12) Why would anyone want to eat a mule deer anyway? Taste about as good as a nasty antelope does.

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.

Huskers86 · Jun 13, 2012

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.

Arnold Layne · Jun 13, 2012

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.

Huskers86 · Jun 13, 2012

Yep, southwest phelps,furnas,gospher and a little bit of ------ counties has them.

Funtwohunt · Jun 13, 2012

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

Royse · Jun 13, 2012

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"!

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