Has anyone ever seen an albino deer while hunting? Would you shoot it? I personally would not shoot it. I watched one of my new hunting videos the other day and it showed this albino fawn growing up on this farmers land. He taped about 4 sightings of it for about 4 different years until it was a doe. The third and fourth year it had fawns with it each year and the fawns were brown. The fourth year, he found the buck that was responsible for giving the albino fawns and recorded the buck mating with the albino doe. After he found out the size of the buck that was mating the albino, he harvested the buck which was a big 12 pionter. Pretty neat video.

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Ron Starr

I took some video of an all white mule deer on a hunt in NW Kansas. Dont know if it was a true albino or not because it was about 200 yards away.

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I have only seen pictures, I believe the white ones are called pebos or something like that. I dont think they are of very good genetics, and tend to be sickly.

The video you watched must have had a true albinos on it. I dont think I would shoot one, just for the fact it is some thing different and would like to see it stick around my land so I could watch it.

I have not seen a complete albino where I hunt...but I know they are there. I have seen two 'pi-bald' does with alot of white on their bodies, but not completely white. It is amazing that complete albinos are able to survive without their natural camoflauge.

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I had the oportunity to get one with a bow several years ago. I let her go because she was apparently a fawn. I had hoped to see her the next season but haven't seen her since. Can only guess the adjacent club got her.

Johnnie

If I saw an albino and it was legal, (buck or doe were I'm from) it's down. I wouldn't think twice. it may not survive the winter anyway, and it is a very rare trophy. I've never heard of even piebalds from around here. Once in a lifetime oppurtunity...definitly.
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Last year during muzzleloader season I saw a white yearling. I say &quot;white&quot; because I didn't see any brown spots at all, but I was too far to tell if it was a true albino. It had a full grown brown doe with it. I watched it for about 15 minutes as it fed off. Never offered me a shot, but I wouldn't shoot a yearling albino deer anyway. A mature doe or buck would have been shot by me though. Definately a trophy to me.
I never saw it again last year, and I figured it didn't survive because if it color.
This past weekend I let my brother in law sit in a stand about 150 yards from where I was last year and he seen a white doe (I think it was the same one.) This one had a brown patch on its right rear ham. I think it was the same one.
I was glad to hear that it made it through last season.

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