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VAspeedgoat
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Are there any regulations on them where you live? I think some states prohibit shooting them. We had a piebald doe here.on the farm for a few years. I couldn't bring myself to think about pulling the trigger.
Gerald Martin
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Cool deer. There were a couple piebald does around my Dad's place for a few years. The first piebald doe had four fawns that I know of. One of those was piebald. The first doe was 3 years old when she was hit on the road. The second piebald made it 5 years before a car was her demise. She used to bed within a hundred yards of my parent's house. We could have shot her many times but it just never felt right. On a visit back east during late muzzleloader season, my son killed her button buck fawn for his first deer. I didn't tell him he couldn't shoot the doe but he understood that my parents thought it was pretty cool to have her around so he never hesitated to shoot the fawn instead of the doe. Never thought I'd be sentimental like that, but it felt right at the time. She was hit by a car the following spring.
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VAspeedgoat
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Awesome stort Gerald. The piebald on our farm almost didn't make it past june of her first year. I was mowing hay with my oldest son and she came up out of the grass right in front of the mower. She could barely jump high enough to even move. I would see her every month or so until she got older. The neighbor would always call me to see if I had seen her before after and during season. She made it three years but I never knew what happened. She never got very big was the strange thing abouy her.
Elkhunter24
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great picture. thanks for sharing!
devon deer
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2 new words on me that i had to Google!
We get these in the UK, there are 2 schools of thought, they give away the position of normal coloured deer, so making it easier for us when we are hunting, the other is as above, but the poachers make use of them for that reason, for me, i always leave them alone, they are cool to see.
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Richard
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This is her 3rd year in the UP. She was born the spring of 2015. Got to see her with her mother. We are buck only in the eastern UP. Not sure about the regs on harvesting an albino. She has pink eyes and is completely white.
VAspeedgoat
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Is it Wisconsin that they are protected? I'm not sure but I know at least one state protects them and their are some cool looking bucks.
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Gerald Martin
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I always thought I would be that way and I would still like to have one. I just realized with the one by my parent's place that it brought more satisfaction to see her around than to shoot her. I think it was because she was so visible.
I get that completely. I'd listen to Mom as well! I don't have that problem where I hunt.
dcopas78
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My dad's friend let him hunt a small 5 point piebold buck on his farm one year. It cost dad a free deer mount for the privelge to hunt it. He hunted that deer harder than any other deer he ever hunted. He passed up several really nice deer to get it. Finally got it the last week of bow season and he did a beautiful life size mount of it. Beautiful deer up north farmer. Thanks for sharing.
Northwoods Labs
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Yes, all albino and "white" deer are protected in Wisconsin. Vilas County in the Northeast part of the state has a fair amount of them running around
archer wapiti
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There were a few around Marquette when I was growing up there. I don't think it was legal to shoot them.
recon6036
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Many many years ago, there was an Albino 4point (eastern terminology) hanging out on some land I own in Menominee County. My buddy from downstate Michigan came up for rifle season and opening morning I set him up in a stand near the area where the Albino was frequenting. I hadn't told him the Albino was around. After the morning hunt, I met up with him; he was excited and he said, you'll never guess what was bedded down near me most of the morning.....an Albino buck. I played it off like he was a full of chit city boy for about a day, then I finally told him I had seen it several times. Since the, I've seen one other Albino on the property....a doe. It is legal to kill Albino's in Michigan.....since about 2008-2009, I believe.
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VAspeedgoat, this is in the eastern upper peninsula of Michigan.
archer wapiti
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neat!
I left 20 years ago, so that would explain my dated information on shooting albinos
