Visual difference for does: Mule/Whitetail
 

In WY we have both white tail and mulie. What is the difference you look for in the does to tell one species from the other?

Thanks!

Tail, ears, and color!

I can't really put my finger on it. After watching both species for so many years, quite often at great distance where the individual details like ear size or the animal's color don't stand out, I can just tell what I'm looking at.
The way they disperse in a group, the way they walk and move, where they are in relation to the terrain and available cover. I don't know.
I'm no Jim Bridger but I pretty well always know what I'm looking at.

Wave your arms and watch them run.

That would work.
Or if you are on horseback you could chase them.

That's my point BC. I have seen WT look a lot like mulies, and vice-versa. There has to be some definitive way.

That's the point BC. I have seen Mulies looking like WTs and vice-versa. There has to be some definitive way to ID them.

Short of a spotting scope I don't know. I just use my binoculars and it works for me.

I wouldn't consider it a waste of time if I were to see deer, sneak close, and find out it's not the kind of deer I was hunting. It's all fun.

a good set of binoculars....Tails tell all...mulies are typically bigger than a whitetail.

Maybe an air horn as well.

Really though I have no experience with mullies as far as hunting but what little I have seen being out west on vacation it seems they look quite a bit different than a whitetail really......of course Ive never glassed one at 600 yards or anything like that. Ive just seen them out in fields and such from the car but I could always easily tell they weren't whitetail.