Congrats on the nice bucks.

Breechplug,

I've hunted and eaten both Muleys and Whitetails for the past 30 years. I can't tell the difference once prepared.

What's surprising is that the prairie deer, eating good pasture grass out West are much fatter and healthier than crop land deer. The old " corn fed " deer is not the best. They like good grass. You should see the layers of fat on them as you skin them out. I've seen 2" of fat on the back above the spine. It's amazing.

Preparation is where it's at, but yes, there's a difference. Whitetail has always been better, every time I ate it. Here, they are always around good green grass and farm ground. The best deer I ever ate was a whitetail I shot in a cornfield. The worst was probably a young muley buck I shot in the hills with no farmground around for miles. It's the nature of the deer that decides where they'll be, and where they are denotes diet, and diet DOES affect taste.

They aren't too bad of 4pts with brow tines, eh? :D