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this deer was shot by a friend yesterday. It was killed north of san antonio Tx. One friend says its just a black whitetail, other friend says it aint no whitetail, what do you all think it is, could it be a cross breed of some sort

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Looks like it's mixed with a goat

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another pic.

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Is there a tail on that thing?

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looks to me like a melanistic button buck.

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i would say that it is probably a crossbred with an exotic

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Just a nubby! Cross breeding is too rare. There are at least 27 variants of Whitetail though, some are just darker.

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Demon deer:D

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Who has the longer face...the deer or the friend?:D
Sure is a good looking deer though. Bow ain't bad either, looks fun.

Edit: Googled this up from JoeyG's info,

http://www.northamericanwhitetail.co...201melanistic/

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Looks alot like a Sika deer. I killed a stag on Friday. But never saw a doe so dark. One way to tell if its a sika is if it has K9's like a elk. Whitetail do not. There are different breeds of sikas. Here's a sika.

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The tail(what is visable) looks like a whitetails! Maybe just mutated color gene.If it is just mutated color it's a good one to take out of gene pool!

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Ears too big to be a sika,Sika usally smell real musky too! Noticed something else in the picture ZREX I hope it is a Sika or some exotic,or your partner is handicapped,the crossbow could be a problem hunting deer right now!I could be wrong...I am most the time!:D

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hes a disabled vet

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That is a dead deer. I've seen them before. Usually identified by the fact that they are "allowing: a human to touch them.

Hope this helps.

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The face looks like Gizmo from the gremlins. Damn those little gremlins

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Im 99% sure its a melanistic button buck. They are very rare, its too bad it couldnt grow a set of antlers before getting shot. It looks exactly like any other button buck besides the color.

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Ihave heard of melanistic deer, but no, I have never seen one and likely never will. I did some research and found that a black deer is much rarer than an albino or piebald. There seems to be a pocket of melanistic deer in central Texas, but other than that they are just freaks of nature, with one popping up here and there once in a while.

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Its melanistic its a one in a million chance and a hundred times less likely than an albino but there are a few in Texas from what I have read. Albinos are caused by a lack of pigment in their body melanistic are coused by the opposite an over abundance of it.

This is a picture from an article I read.

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It is a fallow button buck. Trust me, worked on an exotic ranch north west of San Antonio fora few months. They come in colors ranging from black to white.



(this is not me, got it of the web)

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Does look like a goat....some exotic cross breed, or something. Weird.

I agree, that guy doesn't look too happy, either.

Reminds me of that joke:

Horse walks into a bar. Bartender says, "Why the long face?"

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It is an ultra-rare melanistic whitetail button buck.

My understanding is whitetails can't cross-breed with Sika or Fallow deer. (Muleys yes, others no)

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He shot a freakin goat!!:D

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Bingo!

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thats deffinatly a melanistic whitetail

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JoeyG is right ... that is a melanistic deer , they are even more rare than a albino deer.
It was said it had to do with the pegment of there skin that produce's a darker color of hair.

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The deer also has an overbite. Probably a birth defect of some kind. I raise sheep and once in a while one will be born black with an overbite like that but they have always been dead.

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funny - reminds me of when a girl (from india) at work saw a picture of me w/ a buck. she said "how'd you get it to sit still for the picture?". she was dead serious.

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baaaa baaaaaaa

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That is what I thought..

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Looks like a chocolate fallow to me

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melanistic whitetail, just look at the tail

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Dont eat it!!!!!!!!!!lol nahh just picking...

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WOW! 4 page sof respnses and only 1 right answer. bigjim was right

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Where is Ted Nugent when you need him?

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Melanistic Whitetail !!

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Should have said, "I just talked to it real nice and he layed beside me!"

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melanistic whitetail.

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melanistic arent un common in the hill country but my bet its a fallow they are all soet of shades of colors