Albino deer

Saw a huge full albino doe cross the road in front me just south of Pleasantville. Man are they a beautiful creature.

I don't hunt anymore but if I were given the chance I'd blast one

Shawn - you are mean !
 
 
While I do believe in karma, I'm not sure what I'd do if given the opportunity to shoot an albino.  It'd have to stick around for a while because I'm sure I'd stare in awe.  I hunted a piebald (80% white) hard about a decade ago.  Had it at 45 yards on a row of corn.  Winded me and that was the last I saw it.  It was killed over a mile away on top of the mountain in rifle season.  It was a button buck.
 
Dad almost stepped on an albino some years back in the snow.  It blinked and scared the sheetz out of him.  We used to have a bunch around where I grew up but it's been years since I've seen one.

   Stalked up behind one in Muzzel season years ago here in CT. Pure white just standing there in a big laurel patch. Clear angle away body shot at bout 35 yds.
  Said to myself something bout the poor farmer across the street loosing a darned Goat. Saw the horns when it took off- felt like an idiot.
  It got wasted by a car a few weeks later from what I was told. Still mad at myself for not making a proper ID and taking it. Anything is better than roadkill.
  Have to check the book to see if they are even legal today.

Albinism is a genetic defect so they really should be harvested when a hunter has the opportunity, the inclination and it can be done legally. Other deer seem to shun albino deer, they tend to have shorter legs, hearing deficiencies and perhaps other imperfections that shouldn’t be passed on to future deer populations.
 
Like most of you though I too like to see them, but due to the their genetic imperfections I would have no reservations about harvesting one if the opportunity were there to do so.
 R.S Bodenhorn

I'd skewer it in a heartbeat!
We were after a piebald(normal deer with a white head) this year but no good.  Have seen aprox. a half dozen piebalds while afield but never an albino.  Seen two while driving and my buddy has a full body mount of one he got 2 years ago.

Ironhed

ORIGINAL: Dr. Trout

Not killing a buck for 10 years

I re-read my post and I did not say anything about if it were a buck or a doe.. I just said albino...

I know a guy that harvested an albino doe and never shot another deer for over 11 years.. that's the Karma I was referring to.. had nothiong to do with bucks ??????

as for me and the past 10 years.. I have harvestd 2 Pa bucks and 13 Pa antlerless deer in the past 10 years I hunted.

how many free roaming Pa deer have you killed in the last 10 years of hunting Pa deer????

 
Doc,
 
Every deer I have shot in my life has been a free roaming deer.  Some were mountain deer and some were farm deer.  But, none of them had been baited into an area for most of the year as seems to be your practice.  Get off the high horse you think you own, your feet are dragging.
 
You really should lighten up a bit.
 
And beleive me, you don't want to get into a weiner measuring contest with me were the number of harvested deer are concerned, before or after AR/HR.   It will make someone that lives in the woods, spends enormous amounts of time scouting and spotting, knows every type of tree there is, has info from his PGC buddies, etc. look like a very, very poor hunter compared to someone that does zero scouting, zero spotting and has been able to harvest more deer over the last 15 or more years in total hours than it took you to kill a single doe deer last year.
 
I hope that the 2 bucks and 13 does isn't meant to be impressive, because it certainly is not, especially for the amount of effort you need to put in.  You say you buy two doe tags per year, impress me by saying that in the last 10 years oty harvested 8-9 bucks and 20 does.
 
As for the albino deal, dead.  I'm not afraid of deer karma.  Heck, maybe its true.  What's the worst that could happen -- be reduced to harvesting 2 bucks and 13 does in 10 years?
 

none of them had been baited into an area

OH NO ??? you ADMITTED you just sit near a food plot, planted with food for deer year round......

Toot that horn there buddy...

at least my bait is long gone before I go looking for a deer in the area.. not waiting for one to show up at a food plot ....

I can only image that if I sat near someone's food plot I would not have to do alot of scouting or spend alot of time in the woods either....

and BTW I am not like you trying to impress others with my knowledge, education, job, or skills ... My poop stinks


I posted my totals simply because you posted something that was not true by implying I had not harvested a buck in 10 years....

What are you afraid of? Not killing a buck for 10 years?

OK question for all you experts. There are food sources that are natural for game, There are food plots planted on private property for game. There are also food plots planted on state game lands for game. What the difference in hunting any of the three either directly over them or from a distance ? Is a food plot actually different from a bait pile because its planted and grows ? I know I'm off topic here but..........

  Fully agree with both of you- unfortunately if ya hunt here where the corn truck turned when cornering a field and there is some  that missed the truck ya can get pinched for hunting over bait. But ya can hunt the field where there arent any piles visible.
  Then they let ya hunt  over bait in certain areas considered overpopulated with the deer a few miles away.  Go figure.

Empty cobs according to the local WCO is not considered baiting... anything could carry a cob several hundred yards away, etc... If they were considered bait you would not be able to hunt any where near a corn field ...

Is a food plot actually different from a bait pile because its planted and grows

As for food plots, bait piles before the season, apple orchard/trees, acorns, corn fields, crop fields, etc, etc... I have no problem with any of that and would not put any fellow hunter down for using them to his/her advantage..

I mentioned dars sitting by a food plot only because he likes to put me down (as all his replies to me do) and I managed to show he is no different because of sitting near a food plot... several hundred yards (in his mind) makes it a different situation.. but as mentioned.. most think they are the same.. no difference..

I sit about 400-500 yards away from my back yard where I feed deer from the day after Xmas until April... all summer they are on their own for food sources.. so it's not even the 30 days before the season... it's more like 5 months ...

My guess is Dars is sitting 1,000 yards away from an active food plot, in fact he has even posted about how many deer use that food plot....

Just because he does not think my deer harvests are impressive does not mean others don't... Most guys are not fortunate enough to have the blessings I have of living 24/7 where I hunt and fish.. and I try to not come off as a bragger, I usually mention my totals only in a self-defense mode....

so that I don't sound like some crackpot that is just repeating, like a puppet, what I was told because I when I subtract three cents from 25 cents on my own, I get 21 cents. The reason you don't is you don't have a background, you just have assumptions, supposition, and the word of the PGC.

YEP.. just the average joe not some self-centered egotist.... I already said my poop stinks what more do you want Mr. Higher than Mighty ????

Do you get off putting me and others down ????