Have you ever seen a melanistic deer in the wild?
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Have you ever seen a melanistic deer in the wild?
I had never heard of this prior to a few days ago when I was researching deer coloring and pigmentation. I did a quick search here with the words "melanic" and "melanistic", but nothing resulted, so I thought I would link to these articles for others as well.
http://www.northamericanwhitetail.com/n ... elanistic/
https://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/fi ... -whitetail
Has anyone here on the Beast seen a melanistic deer in the wild? The odds are better in Texas, but they haven been taken in multiple states, including Pennsylvania.
http://www.northamericanwhitetail.com/n ... elanistic/
https://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/fi ... -whitetail
Has anyone here on the Beast seen a melanistic deer in the wild? The odds are better in Texas, but they haven been taken in multiple states, including Pennsylvania.
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I had no idea that existed! So I've definitely never seen anything like that in the wild. That's pretty cool. Thanks for sharing that.
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I have seen pics of wild ones. They are more rare than an albino. I had a big piebald buck I chased for awhile that looked cool. Would have made an awesome mount, guess he died of old age cause I would have heard of him being killed.
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That's ironic...
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Wicked looking deer!
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my dad shot this buck in Adirondacks in 90s it was jet black and grayMotivated wrote:I had never heard of this prior to a few days ago when I was researching deer coloring and pigmentation. I did a quick search here with the words "melanic" and "melanistic", but nothing resulted, so I thought I would link to these articles for others as well.
http://www.northamericanwhitetail.com/n ... elanistic/
https://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/fi ... -whitetail
Has anyone here on the Beast seen a melanistic deer in the wild? The odds are better in Texas, but they haven been taken in multiple states, including Pennsylvania.
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In one of the Wensels books they were keeping tabs on one Barry named Tyrone. Believe a neighbor shot it b4 it was able to mature, but not positive.
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ghoasthunter wrote:my dad shot this buck in Adirondacks in 90s it was jet black and grayMotivated wrote:I had never heard of this prior to a few days ago when I was researching deer coloring and pigmentation. I did a quick search here with the words "melanic" and "melanistic", but nothing resulted, so I thought I would link to these articles for others as well.
http://www.northamericanwhitetail.com/n ... elanistic/
https://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/fi ... -whitetail
Has anyone here on the Beast seen a melanistic deer in the wild? The odds are better in Texas, but they haven been taken in multiple states, including Pennsylvania.
That is awesome! Did he have it mounted? That's a once in a lifetime right there...
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No I've never seen piebald, albino, or melanistic deer.
I did watch a grey squirrel mixed in with a bunch of other squirrels that had a white stripe that ran the length of its body along its back from the tip of its tail to the tip of its nose. I thought about shooting it with my .270 but decided against it.
I did watch a grey squirrel mixed in with a bunch of other squirrels that had a white stripe that ran the length of its body along its back from the tip of its tail to the tip of its nose. I thought about shooting it with my .270 but decided against it.
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There’s an area near where I live that produces the odd one. There was a real big mature buck 150+ that a good friend of mine saw for three years straight but could never close the deal on him. One year he got a shot but totally missed him. During that same time frame he also saw a melanistic fawn which would be about 4 years old now if he has survived. I’ll be keeping trail cameras in that spot this year- now that he doesn’t hunt it any more.
Personally I’ve never seen one but man o man how much fun would it be to get on a track of a big mature Canadian melanistic buck....sigh.
Personally I’ve never seen one but man o man how much fun would it be to get on a track of a big mature Canadian melanistic buck....sigh.
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Dhurtubise wrote:There’s an area near where I live that produces the odd one. There was a real big mature buck 150+ that a good friend of mine saw for three years straight but could never close the deal on him. One year he got a shot but totally missed him. During that same time frame he also saw a melanistic fawn which would be about 4 years old now if he has survived. I’ll be keeping trail cameras in that spot this year- now that he doesn’t hunt it any more.
Personally I’ve never seen one but man o man how much fun would it be to get on a track of a big mature Canadian melanistic buck....sigh.
Man that’d be unreal. I’ve never seen or heard of one in southern or eastern Ontario. Here’s hoping that fawn survived and he’s a big boy you can get a crack at!
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Motivated wrote:ghoasthunter wrote:my dad shot this buck in Adirondacks in 90s it was jet black and grayMotivated wrote:I had never heard of this prior to a few days ago when I was researching deer coloring and pigmentation. I did a quick search here with the words "melanic" and "melanistic", but nothing resulted, so I thought I would link to these articles for others as well.
http://www.northamericanwhitetail.com/n ... elanistic/
https://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/fi ... -whitetail
Has anyone here on the Beast seen a melanistic deer in the wild? The odds are better in Texas, but they haven been taken in multiple states, including Pennsylvania.
That is awesome! Did he have it mounted? That's a once in a lifetime right there...
just a shoulder mount that buck was old too his teeth were about flat. every once in a while we would see deer with that in the Adirondacks in one place we hunted. but that was in the 90s I haven't been to that area since 98. its one of the most remote areas up there so you never know that gene could still haunt those woods.
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I’ve never heard of them before. Very cool looking deer. I’ve been seeing up to 5 albino deer recently on my drive home and thought that was pretty rare!
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I’ve seen several albino deers but never melanistic ones. My dad trapped a melanistic coon once which was really cool. It was jet black with zero stripes or other markings whatsoever.
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Never seen a melanistic but have heard of them.
Back when our deer herd population was crazy high (90's and early 2000's) I saw many albino, and saw 3 together once side by side. I still see piebald a couple a year.
Back when our deer herd population was crazy high (90's and early 2000's) I saw many albino, and saw 3 together once side by side. I still see piebald a couple a year.
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