Piebald or Albino, what do you think?

[Josh Perdue]

Ive always heard its bad luck to shoot one. That the bad luck would follow you for all your future seasons as well. I think I would pass as well I already have plenty of bad luck to go around.

[rolltidehunter]

Shag my uncle saw him during the season said he had small spikes

[Guru]

Originally posted by ChuckC:
Genetically speaking, being leucistic is likely not a great career enhancer, especially as a newborn and young deer.

Why should he get a break that others don't ?
ChuckC

x2!

[Jayrod]

Originally posted by DarkTimber:
Pretty cool deer.   I'd really have my eye on that guy on the right hand side of the screen though!!

Hahaha that's what i am talking about!!

[joe ashton]

Man I've got a special place on my wall for that deer...!

[gregg dudley]

I saw my first piebald in the woods last fall.  Beautiful spike.  I had always swore that I would shoot the first one that I saw regardless of size.  The deer was well with in range and I passed on the shot.  I took the normal colored mature doe that was with him.  I only regret the decision on Mondays and Thursdays.    

[shag08]

John...yeah he was definitely 18 months old. Come next season he will be a 2.5 year old buck. He actually looks a little poorly to me to be that age but he may be like myself...pictures just don't do him justice lol.

Everybody is absolutely correct, being stark white and sticking out like a sore thumb does nothing for his own self preservation....BUT he did make it through his youth and has made it through two hunting seasons. I'd say he is pretty damn smart to survive, looking the way he does.

Most of the bucks harvested in North America each year are 2.5 years old. Most hunters will let a little buck walk nowadays...once they get over 2.5 they get too smart to be killed...generally speaking.  I'm a logger, not a wildlife biologist, but I do ALOT of reading and observations. Most of the deer on my walls are only 2.5.

I think it would just come down to "THAT MOMENT" for me, like I said earlier. You may never see him again if you let him walk. But you will never have a chance at another one.

I'm sure glad he isn't on my place lol. I don't know what I'd do.

[Wudstix]

Shame he will probably never mature.  He would be tough to pass up.

[Duncan]

I've been seeing one here, all white but lacking the pink eyes like yours. A true albino would lack pigmentation in the hooves as well.

[Archie]

Beautiful deer.  I guess if someone wanted to harvest it, and it were legal, that would be their decision.

There is no such thing as Karma, bad luck, whatever you call it.

[Stumpkiller]

Piebald would be white and black splotches.  Skewbald is white and any other color (brown, usually).  

The deer at Seneca Army Depot in NY are white.  Truly white.
   

Cool looking deer. Like said above, I don't think it is albino. Just an awesome looking creature though!

Bisch

[Mojostick]

Other than the "isn't that cool" factor, piebald deer and albinism are genetically undesirable  traits in several ways. Instead of never shooting one, the better option is to observe the rules for any deer and make some white chili.

[Hopewell Tom]

A hunting party shot a white Moose here last Fall and lived to regret it. The local First Nations declared the animal sacred and there was quite a hullabaloo over it.
A local First Nations guy I know shot twin white Whitetail fawns and had his Elders proclaiming lots of bad luck.
I'd shoot the "pinto" type of Piebald, the ones with brown and white, but that all white guy - I don't know. A 10 point rack on him would seal his fate, though...

[Jon Stewart]

Dad shot one years ago while hunting in Pennsylvania. Had the head mounted along with the feet.  Made a beautiful wall mount.  Also had the hide tanned and when he got it back about half the hide was missing. Only the taxidermist knows where that went,LOL.

Bad luck shooting one is B.S.  No such thing as luck ,good or bad.  Dad shot at least another 50 deer after that one along with three bear and a couple of fox.

[JamesKerr]

I would certainly shoot it and have it mounted with the hide tanned and made into a rug.

[Alexander Traditional]

Originally posted by Stumpkiller:
Piebald would be white and black splotches.  Skewbald is white and any other color (brown, usually).  

The deer at Seneca Army Depot in NY are white.  Truly white.
   

I agree with the black and white comment made above,learned it in college about horses. I would have no problem shooting it,if it were legal.

[achigan]

An albino from here in western Indiana.

[VictoryHunter]

That isn't a true albino. Beautiful deer, I would love to shoot one like that!

[tracker12]

I just recently saw one very similar.  Thought it could be an Albino until it turned and I was able to see a small patch on the shoulder.  I am very superstitious when it come to white animals. No shooting them for me.  I trust the Indians on this one.