Deer Crossing Signs... Whitetail? Why?

I don't know about you all, but everytime I see a Deer Crossing Sign here in Utah, I can't help but get offended when I see a whitetail with it's tail in the air jumping on the sign.

I can't believe the MDF isn't all over this, trying to save the MuleDeer in Utah. We can't even save them from the encroaching whitetail sign. The things we'll do to save a few dollars in the Govt. I am sure we got a smoking deal from some provider back east.

Let your voices be heard!!! Let's keep MuleDeer as our state deer!!!

CS (???)
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Hiker
Cowslayer, LOL! I have often thought the same thing. :)) All of our deer xing signs here in Colorado are whitetails too.
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the need to have mule deer signs to !
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Hiker,

The mecca of muledeer hunting (Colorado) is getting snubbed by the whitetail sign. No wonder every sign I see anymore is shot up. It's probably the diehard muledeer hunter letting them know what they think of the whitetail.

CS
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No wonder sooo many deer are hit on the highways! People aren't watching out for muledeer, they are only watching for those darn whitetails.

CS
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"cowslayer" wrote:Hiker,

The mecca of muledeer hunting (Colorado) is getting snubbed by the whitetail sign. No wonder every sign I see anymore is shot up. It's probably the diehard muledeer hunter letting them know what they think of the whitetail.

CS
 LOL! I don't know if that's the reason but there's a lot of them shot up.
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Hiker
"cowslayer" wrote:No wonder sooo many deer are hit on the highways! People aren't watching out for muledeer, they are only watching for those darn whitetails.

CS
 I was wondering if all of those reports were correct on the reason behind the decline of the Mule Deer population throughout the west, now we know.......it's those WT signs. Come on MDF, time to get them switched to Forked Antlers and get rid of that tail. :))

You know Cowslayer, the last time I hunted Montana and Wyoming, I saw more whitetails then I did mulies. Whitetails everywhere!
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give me a few im making a mule deer crossing sign :thumb
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heres the mule deer crossing sign i drew!!!!

http://s165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/coloradobuck_bucket/?action=view&current=2004things.jpg :thumb
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Hiker
CB, not bad! :thumb
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thank you hiker! thinking about sending it to c-dot to see if they'ed change it! :thumb
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I've seen mule deer signs.
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where?
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bigbuck92
ya ive seen a couple to
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MuleyMadness
Good point Cowslayer, not sure I've seen a Mule Deer myself. So I couldn't help myself and created one.

Now someone just contact Tony Abott or the new PRES. of the Mule Deer Foundation and tell em to "get er done"! :thumb
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waynedevore
Hey you guys :-k Know who's making all these signs (???)

All come from China :-$

We should make our own.

We could have a velvet in the summer. In the Fall, depending on the area, a 150 class, Maybe a non-typical. In heavy hunted areas the best we could do is a fork. And never a white Tail in Muley country. :nono:
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I've seen a couple here in So. Utah and a couple in Arizona.
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Snake River Marksman
Just saw one this weekend West of Park city, on I-80 near that lake where I 84 comes in.
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if you drive from kamas to park city it rotates from mule deer signs to whitetails always wondered why also
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Have any of you all seen some of the Whitey signs going through Canada? Some of them look like cavemen drew them. One antler is going forward and the other is going backward.
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AntlersOutWest
I was just thinking that a couple days ago...

Just outside of Kamas there is a mulie and a whitetail sign within 100 yards of eachother??


Just thinking.. The state has more important things to ponder about..
(Improved padded shovel handles to lean on!)
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I'm surprised the women's liberation groups haven't jumped all over the fact that only bucks are depicted on the signs. Shouldn't we be aware of the does too? :thumb :)
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AntlersOutWest
Does are dumb.. Duh

Its all about the rack
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Hello everyone, as you can see I'm new to the site I have been reading for awhile but I had to post to this forum becaues I like everyone else here have been looking at the whitetail signs and wondering why???
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Utahbowhunter
HAha yeah... i noticed that too. i have seen a couple muledeer ones but most are whitetail.
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i have seen muley signs as well. once i remember where i will tell you know.
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ABert
"Hiker" wrote:
cowslayer wrote:Hiker,

The mecca of muledeer hunting (Colorado) is getting snubbed by the whitetail sign. No wonder every sign I see anymore is shot up. It's probably the diehard muledeer hunter letting them know what they think of the whitetail.

CS
 LOL! I don't know if that's the reason but there's a lot of them shot up.
 You mean those signs aren't for sighting in? Uh-oh... #-o
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AGCHAWK
Shaft, those signs are awesome!! I would love to see those around...they're much better lookin' than the whitetail ones.

Of course, we have Muleys, Whitetail, and Blacktail here in WA so it would have to be semi-regional.
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TheGreatwhitehunter
I have seen Moose and elk crossing signs in Colorado but not mule deer signs (???)
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bigbuck92
those signs are awesome shaft! welcome to the site.
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heres some i found on google.

http://s165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/coloradobuck_bucket/?action=view&current=thumb_deercrossing.jpg

http://s165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/coloradobuck_bucket/?action=view&current=elk.jpg

http://s165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/coloradobuck_bucket/?action=view&current=moose_crossing.jpg

http://s165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/coloradobuck_bucket/?action=view&current=buffalo-779717.jpg
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bigbuck92
hey cb did you know that on photobucket theres a way of posting the actual photo itself in stead of opening up the link. it really slows down my computer when i have to open the link
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how?
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AGCHAWK
You can also just post the pics that you're refering to on this thread instead of posting a link to photobucket.

Just thought I would throw that out there.
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TheGreatwhitehunter
I like the moose one the best
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MULEY7MM
I have thought the same thing those sighns you guys made look alot better
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Hey shaft . Iwant one of those for the garage wall.
nice job
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