White Buck- to take or not to take

[hank327]

I would not shoot him. Not because of his coloration, but because he is only about 1 1/2 years old. Let him grow up a bit and see what he looks like at 4 1/2 or 5 1/2 years old. If you want venison, shoot a doe.

 

[BigFatKen]

Albino deer are protected in WI as the tourists like to watch them and there are 1.5 million others.

 

[scooterthegreat]

We just had a discussion about this in a hunter ed class with the DNR Warden here in Wisconsin.

The brown patches on the "white" deer often come during the rut as a result of the hormones.

It is only considered albino if the eyes are pink.

Do you want to take the chance...

 

[Detachment Charlie]

White Bucks

I got a pair of white bucks back in about 1959.
They well hell to keep clean, but chicks dug them and they really looked swell with my letter sweater when I'd dance with my steady to Pat Boone songs. I later switched to blue suede shoes.

OK, I sincerely apologize to all who have read this. But, the devil made me do it.

 

[SteveS]

I think they're protected in Michigan now...

Albino deer are, thanks to State Sen. Joe Mack, who got a letter from a little old lady that didn't want hunters shooting the deer that she liked to watch.

Piebald are legal to shoot.

 

[bearmgc]

If he's a true albino, then there's other anomallies that go along with the genetic mutation. The main one is blindness in time due to the absence of the eye's ability to shield out the ultraviolet rays of the sun. So he will go blind before his time. In that case, I would shoot him, before he starves or a coyote finds him. The brown patch though, suggests that he isn't albino.

 

[danurve]

gezzer; In NH you have to let him walk they are protected.

They are called piebald and may be white or prodomenintly white. They are NOT albinoes.

I believe NY State has a herd of them by Ft Drum.

Close so to say, they are located in the old Seneca Army Depo. Fenced in for now. But there is no maintenance and it's only a matter of time before that's history to.

 

[Tom Bri]

Here in crazy Illinois, white deer are protected, can't be taken by any means. Don't know why.

 

[EatBugs]

I can see why many states prohibit the taking of albino deer. It's for the same reason I would be reluctant to take one if it should cross my path. It's an abnormality in nature and neat to see. Kinda goes with the motto: take only memories and leave only footprints. or something like that.

But.... then again... That deer would look really neat above my fireplace.

 

[marksman13]

Killed a big doe with my bow a few years back that was colored just like an apoloosa horse...dark grey up front, fading out to white on the rump with dark grey spots...craziest damn thing I ever saw...have to see if I can find those pictures...

 

[force_quit]

If it were a moose and you were Norwegian, they'd say shoot it.

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1484132.ece

"It is surely entertaining to have an albino moose wandering in the woods but in purely breeding terms it is not right to let it live," Morten Brommdal, manager of the animal section at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Oslo told Moss Avis.

"That so many people want the white moose to live is an emotional issue. It is exciting to have such a rarity rustling around. But if it is spared we risk the moose's breeding qualities spreading. Soon we might two, three, four or five albino moose in these wooded areas, something which in the long run can weaken the herd," said Brommdal, who pointed out that an albino moose is really a kind of 'mistake'.