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Post by Robster on Dec 4, 2021 20:02:03 GMT -5
Robster is that thing frozen? Nice deer. Probably, that or rigor mortis set in on it. I still have the hide, hanging over one of the beams in my cabin.
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Post by bigbore5 on Dec 17, 2021 1:41:32 GMT -5
Seen a couple of those but never have had a good shot. Congratulations
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Post by gunsbam45 on Dec 21, 2021 6:48:19 GMT -5
What area of the country did this one come from? When I used to travel around for work I did a job at Tobyhanna Army Depot in PA. First place I stayed was in Mount Pocono. I went out and ran bears away from the old ladies dumpster staying next door more than once, but the resident deer herd there is what really got my attention. Most of them were like the one in your pic. They looked like everything from Jersey milk cows to paint horses to goats you name it in between. There were more oddballs like that than normal ones. Almost all of them had a patch of white on them somewhere, but I don't remember if any of them were quite like this one or not. It looks like it's mother was bred by my first red tick coon hound Charlie, and if I'd seen it around here I'd of assumed that cus he'd of done it.
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Post by rangersedge on Jan 12, 2022 7:55:34 GMT -5
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Post by contender on Jan 12, 2022 9:09:55 GMT -5
Wonder why that hunter didn't try to take that deer?
Where my son lives,, there's a piebald doe that's been around for a few years. She also survived this past season. He saw her just a few days ago.
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Post by magnumwheelman on Jan 12, 2022 9:28:51 GMT -5
That White non albino Buck would probably walk past me... with me hoping he got the chance to breed as many does as possible... if it were albino, I'd probably shoot it, as I've heard they are sterile, & seen a few of those around...
are those Piebald deer an actuaL breed, or a cross between something like that white buck, & a normal deer... if I had seen one in the woods, I would have likely shot it as well... but maybe not, since I've never seen one around here with that type of coloration... probably my the "in the woods, quick decision making tool" would be, have I ever seen one before... No... try to take a picture... yes... pull the trigger
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Post by potatojudge on Jan 12, 2022 12:55:11 GMT -5
A primer on pigmentation loss. In common speaking, splotchy are typically called piebald, white with black eyes are leucistic, and white with red eyes are albino though as you read the article you’ll see those descriptors aren’t totally accurate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucism
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Post by magnumwheelman on Jan 12, 2022 13:38:48 GMT -5
as someone who used to be into aquariums, as much as I'm into guns now... I'm buying your definition better than WIKIs... the Oscar ( fish ) pictured on the link, is an albino ( pink eyes ) & we called them albino Oscars
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Post by kings6 on Jan 12, 2022 14:12:11 GMT -5
I saw the brown and white blacktail doe that lives around here last week for about the third time in a month or so. There are a few others that live on the other side of town and a gene pool for the same color phase near the little town or Rickreall about 4 miles to the east.
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Post by rangersedge on Jan 12, 2022 14:34:28 GMT -5
"It is illegal to hunt white deer in Illinois"
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Post by crazycarl on Jan 12, 2022 18:51:22 GMT -5
There are piebald deer in Alamance & Orange counties in NC. Haven't see any here in west-central MO so far.
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Post by parallaxbill on Jan 13, 2022 7:51:29 GMT -5
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Post by contender on Jan 13, 2022 9:27:06 GMT -5
"It is illegal to hunt white deer in Illinois"
Didn't know that.
I do know the doe on my son's place is healthy,, and has had fawns for (3) years now. She's a piebald,, not an albino. And only a couple of fawns have exhibited some of their mother's piebald features. Some have been "normal."
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