Most people can't easily see the difference between mule deer and whitetail deer. In Manitoba it is illegal to hunt mule deer, and that is why it is so important to know the difference between those deer.

 
Mule deer and Whitetail deer don't have many differences. From a far distance you may not be able to see it. Mule deer habitat is in the western half of North America, they have very large ears which is how it gets the name mule. The most common and easiest way to determine the difference between the two is by their tails.
This picture is the tail of a mule

deer, as you can tell it has a black tip and it is
mall and the tail is much smaller. Most mule deer are large, and for

(female deer) the tail is the easiest way to spot the

difference. The next picture is a Whitetail deer. Whitetail deer have bigger tails then the mule deer and when they lift up their tail you can see it is white which is why they have the name white tail . 

 









 Another huge difference between the mule

 deer and whitetail deer are the antlers. This is

 only for male mule deer because the buck has

the antlers. It is confusing to explain, the whitetail deer have tines all coming off one main beam, while the mule deer have have 'forks' coming which then forms antlers. As you can also see in this picture mule deer have very dark and large ears. While whitetail deer have white and small ears. The face of a mule deer is much more rigid than the whitetail deer. Whitetail deer have sort of like baby faces because they are wider and softer looking.

It is November 18, I have gone hunting twice so far. Once on November 11, and also on November 12.  I took videos to record my process so far but it is not ready yet. Im planning on going to out this coming weekend.
      During my first hunt we had no luck, my dad and I didn't see anything, we did see a great grey owl but that was all we saw for four hours. The second day we went out, we got up at about 5:00 am to make our way out to our spot about 50 minutes east of the city, we got there at about 6:30 and started walking in at about 6:45 when the sun was close to being up. It took us about 15 minutes to walk to our shack, which was not a very nice walk. We stayed until about 10:30, it was freezing because the sun wasn't up yet but we did have a wind break to help keep us warmer. During the second day we saw about 5 or 6 deer, one doe and a couple small spikers.
      The full moon in November usually signals the start of the rut, the full moon this year was November 15th. That means the big bucks will really be moving, trying to find a hot doe. The deer move a lot right after a big storm, most people think they move during the storm to stay warm and that sounds very true but it is not. The deer will bed down during the storm and right when it ends they will start to move around to stay warm and find food. The last few years have been very bad for deer because of our long and cold winters. But we have been trying our best to wait it out so we can see the deer we want to kill.