ORIGINAL: Rebel Hog
ORIGINAL: BrianDamage
ORIGINAL: Rebel Hog
Well then, you are correct, Piebald and still envious of your trophy.Gosh that's
nice!
yep, if I was in a state that banned shooting all-white deer, I would have passed that deer up thinking that the head and legs were stained before reading this post..... now I know it's still classified as a piebald.
makes you wonder if any other hunters had passed him up before? or passed up the pics of that doe, thinking they would be classified as all white. I'll bet if they did, they are sick about it LOL
Brain, most wildlife biologist encourage you to take Albinos and Piebalds to eliminate them from the gene pool. They are more subceptableto insects and decases.
yeah I know...actually most don't consider albnoism to be a defect, they just coinsider all-white deer which are not true albinos to be a defect.. All-white deer is a mutation of the genes, and albinoism is just a lack of pigment. Albinos normally have normal offspring. (this is according to Dr. Leonard Lee Rue III, in "The Deer of North America" .
I think it's stupid to pass a law outlawing the killing of a deer because of it's color.
What I was trying to say before is, that in Michigan, where he is at, it's illegal to kill an all-white deer. BEFORE READING THIS POST AND HIS POST FROM LAST YEAR , I would have considered that to be an all-white deer, attibuting the brown on the head and legs to staining from the deer's glands, and I would have passed it up if I where in Michigan.I'm willing to bet several other hunters in Michigan would have done the same thing . But, he knew the law well enough to know it was legal, and knew DNR would back him on it, so he took it. Now that I've seen the aticles on his other post, NOW I KNOW, and if for some reason I ever found myself in a state with the same regulations, I know that it is considered a piebald.
Being that I live in Alabama, where we do not have assinine laws like that, I would have shot it with no hesitation. Heck if a purple deer walks out during season, he's down as far as I'm concerned.