busybeaver
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sockeye
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Which one is the hardest trophy to get? My vote goes to the Blacktail. They may not be the biggest, but if you bag anything larger that a 3 point you have a monster.
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Osprey
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I've taken several 4 point Blacktails,a couple nice Mulies......but those Whitetail bucks will make you crazy.....I would rate then as follows....Whitetail
Blacktail
Mulies
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steelie
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Having lived on both sides of the state, I think its more a matter of avallibility and access than it is anything. Black tail hunting you have access to all the land you want witch increases your odds of a succsessfull trophy hunt. Mule deer numbers and the amount of people that hunt them, not to mention the extreamly short seasons, make getting a trophy difficult and most the quality white tail habitat is on private property and getting access to these lands can be difficult. This may not be true in other states but it is a major facter in hunting trophey deer in Wa.
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greg
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I have to agree with Osprey on this one. I cut my hunting teeth on whitetails back east in Kentucky and Tennessee. I truly believe that a TROPHY whitetail taken under fair chase conditions (not on a game ranch  ) is one of the continent's toughest critters. In comparison, blacktail and mulies seem rather dumb. Now before I get flamed about that comment, and someone asks the obvious question "why doesn't everyone kill huge blacktails if they're easy?", I think it's because of two main factors...one is just sheer numbers. Most states in the mid-south annual whitetail harvest is more than the entire DEER (whitetail, mule, and blacktail) population in Washington. When you have 1.5-2.5 MILLION deer in the state, odds are that more of them are going to survive hunting season and grow older. And second,is the jungle-like terrain that the blackies seem to prefer. Lots different hunting the hardwood forests I grew up in.
Young deer (1.5-2.5 year olds) of all three species are the easiest for most hunters, and make up a huge percentage of the bag in most areas. Older (trophy class deer) of all three species get pretty durn sneaky (some go as far as turning completely nocturnal). Anyway, not that anyone asked, just my 25 cents worth. 
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