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Thanks for posting them, Mary!

Some of you probably recall that Chris also did my Texas whitetails in a similar pose. It's meant to be the bookend to the Coues deer above. Now all I need to do is build the pesestals for both of them.



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Excuse my ignorance Tony. Isn't a coues deer a whitetail from Texas anyway?


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The Arizona whitetail is the subspecies Odocoileus virginianus couesi. The Texas subspecies is Odocoileus virginianus texanus.

Defined habitat for native Coues deer is Arizona, western NM and northern Mexico, mostly west of the Sierra Madre.

In AZ, it's mostly the central and southern parts of the state; farther north is mule deer counrty.

Sonora is the main state where most Mexico Coues deer hunting takes place in that country. In fact, the one on the left in the dual mount above came from western Sonora within sight of the Sea of Cortez. The other is from a southern AZ unit along the Mexican border.

In NM, they live in the Gila NF, Burro Mts. and a couple isolated small mountain ranges in the extreme southwestern corner of the state. I have maps showing the U.S. distribution in the book.

If you look at the wall in the last photo, the deer high up on the right is another Coues deer. The one high up on the left is another TX whitetail.

Here's a good reference for the whitetail subspecies and distribution.

http://www.whitetailsunlimited.../bk_distribution.pdf


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Thought I would put them side by side for you, Tony. Smiler



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Thanks. I no longer had that one of the TX bucks, and you had deleted it from Photobucket.


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Great looking mounts


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Mary, great work you guys. Congrats Tony on some fine looking deer. Mary, all I need now to have you duplicate the scene are two Coues deer of that calibur!!

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