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Yes! As others have stated a melanistic deer is more rare than an Albino!. The albino is a genetic rarity of less than 1/2 % of the population. Piebalds are about 2-3 % and a melanistice is less than the albino. For some reason, most of the melanistics are in Texas! See this site for more inof:
http://www.northamericanwhitetail.co...201melanistic/

Thanks for the picture!! A great looking animal and I'd love to have one to mount, with pride in my home.

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I have never even heard of anyone even seeing a black deer like that. This site is the only place I have seen pictures. I think that I would get a full body mount.

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well said model772... i would pass this one up and take a pic... it may be a "nice mount", but this may be some of the reason they are rare, ecause when anyone sees it, the think about their living room...

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To play devil's advocate, B & C bucks are very rare too. Would you pass them up?

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Cool looking deer,haven't ever seen one in the wild myself.I have seen a pie-bald deer once before ,but all the same cool looking pic.And yes it would be a full shoulder mount.I havent ever heard of anyone around here to see a melanistic deer before:)

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I've seen some real real dark brown deer and even piebalds, but I have never seen a black one. I guess everything is getting to be equal rights.;) Bobby

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there was a buck very similar to that taken in pa. . . . i only saw a pic of it in the pa game news

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Yeah only it had a bigger rack !

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That is a nice deer. I would get that full body mounted. To me that is extremelly rare.

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That is a very cool pic. I never, or heard of, a black deer. That is really cool. Really nice rack to. To the guy who said let it walk and take a pic, well most ppl don't carry cameras in the woods, and other people could still see it, this person just has to invite the people over her house to see it.;)

Like someone else said it does look like a cross between a bull and a deer. Very nice though.