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Piebald deer- To shoot or not to shoot

I got this one several years back. It had a piebald spot on its neck. It is probably from the same genetics as that buck. It was from the same general area.
 

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I've had two chances at piebald. First time a nice buck was chasing the piebald doe and so I was hoping for the chance at the buck and passed on the doe, never got a second chance at her. The next time I was meat hunting late season for a doe and when I saw the piebald I started looking for a shot. For some reason the whole group started getting nervous and thus I switched and took the bird in hand and shot a regular doe and watched the piebald run off. But the best, back when I had my farm I had a button buck show up mid season one year that was full albino. I've never shot a BB and didn't want to start. It made it through that season safe on my farm and the next season was a tiny little 4pt. I had a chance early that bow season but passed on it hoping for at least one more year. That never came to be as he disappeared shortly after that. That little buck looked like he glowed right at last light!
 
Just had this discussion with my Dad this past fall. We decided we'd both definitely shoot, at least when we thought it was a doe. Later, I saw the deer again and realized he had 4" spikes. It would have been a cool rug but not sure I would be willing to fill my buck tag on him.......maybe......

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I would have no issues or regrets shooting one. Im not superstitious and at the end of the day its a deer. i want to eat it...

Central MD has more than anywhere else ive seen in MD. cape henlopen in DE also had a pretty good number of them.

Ive had 2 shots on does but didnt take them. First one was right after my biggest buck and i was too shook up to fling another arrow. Second one was a little too dark although still legal light. Both were mostly white.

There used to be an all white buck (still piebald i think but pretty much all white) that roamed around for years in a no-hunting area. It bordered public hunting land. If he ever was shot it stayed hush hush. He was able to get a pretty impressive headset on him. I see a doe near there almost every week now and she has a cool line down her face with almost all white everywhere else. i took some pics a few weeks ago ill try to post em
 
They have extremely poor genetics and I feel should be eliminated from the herd. I have only had the opportunity to kill one and while its coat was beautiful to look at, it was in really bad physical shape due to it only having about a half length bottom jaw. That was not from injury, it was just how it formed. It's probably been about 15 years now, so I don't remember everything else that was wrong with it but if they breed they certainly aren't going to help your local genetics.
 
WISCO said:
I would definitely shoot a piebald deer. I would shoot an albino if it was legal in my state. A deer is a deer, if I get a chance to take one with a cool pattern thats a plus.
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It's illegal to shoot albino deer in some states?

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Close to town let it go. Don't want to deal with the headache.

In the country and the landowner hasn't claimed it as a "per deer",...well there's a reason all deer aren't piebald/albino.
 
sweats said:
It's illegal to shoot albino deer in some states?

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According to mossyoak website "Some states protect albino deer populations from harvest such as Minnesota, Tennessee, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa. Even piebald deer with more than 50 percent white hair are protected in Iowa and the same for Montana with more than 75 percent". Dec 2, 2021
 
The buck I shot in December had piebald feet. I killed him in the snow and didn’t realize his feet were white till the next day when I hung him up in the barn to skin him.
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My Dad always said you would have seven years of bad luck so I probably wouldn’t but if it was a bruiser I’d have a hard time not shooting.
 
woodsdog2 said:
My Dad always said you would have seven years of bad luck so I probably wouldn’t but if it was a bruiser I’d have a hard time not shooting.
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That's interesting. I've never heard any bad luck associated with killing a piebald. Bad luck for the piebald, I guess.
 
It’ssupposedly a Native American Legend. We have pure white deer in the finger lakes area on an old ammunition military installation near Seneca lake. They are protected but they are not Albino, they have normal eye and hoof pigment their hair is just pure white.
 
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