The top one from Oklahoma is a whitetail, I have to assume you don’t know what a crawdad muley is, but it’s an immature buck where the forks look like crawfish claws rather than having deep points. Look at it and you’ll see what I mean. As far as he being some sort of expert I’m in my living room with 9 mounts from three different countries and two continents. He doesn’t describe the deer at all, but they are too small to shoot in my opinion, unless you just want something to die.
I'll take this writer's claim about the deer species over yours since you weren't there to personally observe them.......sorry.