Buckstopshere

Gryan. Thanks for the reply. Intrestingly enough my wife and i were visiting the wine country along Seneca Lake last week and I spotted one as we were driving home. My wife thought it was a horse. I did get a picture and i' ll email it to you as i don' t know how to post it on this board. It is a spooky looking shot as it was a little dark. I recall it having one antler,but it may have had two.

deershed

I saw a piebald doe last archery season out of range.I' m holding off shooting anything in that area this year til I see if she' s still around.If she comes around this year again and is in range,she' s going down.
Years ago I shot a 9 pointer the local farmer called patches.He had patches of white hair on both back legs.Not a true piebald in my book,but just the same it didn' t effect my deer hunting success and if I get this doe doubt if it will have any effect either.
My dad killed a piebald doe a few years ago too and he never saw any negative effects from shooting her.
Go for it if the opportunity presents itself!

jmac33

if it is brown its down........ if its white goodnight[8D] tell your son to take em

jmac33

if it is brown its down........ if its white goodnight[8D] tell your son to take em

lhook7

When I was in high school in Oklahoma I hunted a large albino for two seasons. I only saw him once about two weeks before the first season I hunted him and he looked to have at least ten points; the farmers in the area saw him pretty regularly and that kept me coming back. There were several of us trying to get him, but I guess he died of natural causes because I never heard of anyone taking him and he had become something of a local legend, so I am sure I would have known if someone had got him. By the end of the second season I decided to give up bacause I started thinking of myself as Ahab in search of the Great White Buck.

John Deer

There' s no way I' d pass one up. Tell your son to take him. Good Luck!

GBhunter

im not sure, but in some states i think it is illegal to shoot an albino deer. whats the difference between albino and piebald?

mddittman

Shoot it.

Albinos are pretty much OK genetically except for the lack of melanin, but piebalds are really screwed up genetically. You don' t want them breeding. They end up getting scoliosis, goat face, and all kinds of other ailments and can pass this on to other deer if they breed with a normal one. Since this is a buck, he can do a lot of breeding damage.

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/ddpbald.html

I shot a piebald button buck a few years ago, approx. 75% white. Glad to get him out of the gene pool before he passed it on! I got a full body mount of him, if I can find the pictures I' ll post a few...