I meant to send the first post as a pm, hope i don't open up a big can of worms.
Looks like that it is going to take at least 4 points to draw a muzzle loader tag. In mid September, all the crops are still in the fields and the very warm weather. They are very hard to hunt then. Can also hunt during the rifle season, but with the truck warriors and the over the counter mule deer muzzle loader tags for all residents make it very difficult to have a good hunt. scoped muzzle loaders make a rifle basically so there is a lot of pressure on the deer, big or little, it doesn't matter.
Here's what I know and may only be my opinion and it is almost 100% from an archery standpoint.
The idea of a mule deer stamp is great for out of staters wanting to hunt here, but it sure is hard to draw and i'm glad they are not letting more stamps out.
You are going to draw the whitetail tag!!!! no questions asked, making you eligible for the mule deer stamp, which more than likely you are not going to draw. you do not need any points to draw the whitetail tag.
Which in my opinion, leaves the problem. My opinion is that the best mule deer areas and locations are probably the worst whitetail and hardest to hunt in the state. Huge pastures, few trees and hard to find whitetails. There will be a few deer that travel the creeks but the good ones are few and far between. Lots of deer a moving into the vastness to get away from the pressure of the creeks make it a tough hunt.
I'm not trying to poo-poo anything, i love where i hunt and glad i'm a resident. However, if i were out of state, things would be different.
Taking a chance to draw a tag and getting a whitetail tag in a sub-par region would be risky. you can't turn them back in either. If you want to hunt good whitetails, there are much better areas to hunt in midcentral and eastern kansas. kansas is a great mule deer state and definitely under utilized, but there are reasons for it.
i sure hope that i have made some sense on this.