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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Rob DiStefano on September 08, 2010, 06:53:00 PM
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... imagine this black beauty in just a few years, or more! ...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v82/rfdee/archery/a913098.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v82/rfdee/archery/a9130a8.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v82/rfdee/archery/a9130b7.jpg)
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That is cool!
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That is about the coolest looking deer i have ever seen :) .
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Thanks for posting that pic Rob, I don't believe I have ever even seen a picture of a black deer before? Seen plenty of solid white ones, but never a blackie. I'd have to save that one for a full body mount.
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I have hard of a Melanistic deer before but have never met someone who has actually seen one!
That is just too cool! Thanks for sharing Rob :campfire:
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Wow! I have seen pictures of them before, but boy, are they nice.
I think I like them better than white ones.
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I like that! All I can say is WOW.
Martin
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That's Cool-Never seen a black deer before. Thanks for the picture!
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thats a first for me.very cool.thanks for the pics.good luck this season,steve
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Hey, that is a rare find indeed, Melanism is much more uncommon than albinoism. it is a genetic goof, and extremely rare! I ahve only seen one other in central Wisconsin.
Great pic!!
Bob.
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Real nice.
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Wow !
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First one I have seen, very cool, Thanks for the pic.
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Haven't actually ever seen a decent pic of one before.
Thank you for sharing.
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I actually got those pics in an email a couple weeks ago. Very cool! The third pic is on my desktop...
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AWESOME!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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I never even heard of a black deer before that thing is awsome
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That is beautiful!!!!
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As a kid with my family we seen a black deer and not many people would belive it. It is so cool to see this picture it will make my dads day to show it to him.
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Beautiful. Those pictures are fantastic,especially the first one. :notworthy:
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Great pictures Rob, note that little Blackie still proudly maintains the white tail flag to wave bye-bye to us with. :thumbsup:
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I didn't even know there were black deer. Great pictures.
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No spots probably makes it very difficult to survive the first few weeks in an area with lots of predators. Very cool!
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That's cool. Mama's a little dark across the face, too.
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WOW really nice :)
Thanks for sharing!
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amazing....
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That's only the second picture I've ever seen of one. Here's the other. http://www.thejump.net/hunting/4-hunting-6/whitetail-pictures-11.htm
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See Rob, here I think I am special with my local friend here and you go breaking out a deer like this :) What a beauty!
(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r296/wapiti792/whitedeer015.jpg)
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Shot a buck in West Texas many years ago that was almost that dark. Cool looking deer.
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Great shots.Thanks.
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WOW
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Sooo cool!!!!
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Never seen that before. Great photo's
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Not quite as cool... and probably won't get any bigger. :)
(http://www.njsportsman.com/images/misc/blacksq.jpg)
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Can you imagine that with 10 points and double droptines strolling in for a fight!!!
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What a fantastic sight Rob. A black deer.
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The Wensels were hunting a black buck for the last 4 years. He was killed last November by another hunter.
Pics as a year and a half old:
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b351/osminski/0c5f0fa4.png)
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b351/osminski/6748d490.png)
And the same buck last fall as a four and a half year old finally matured and ready to harvest.
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b351/osminski/8ef60c3b.png)
Gene was really, really taken by this buck. He's done a lot of research and melanistic bucks are very, very rare.
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that last buck is outta this world...way to cool
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wow cool pics . ive seen piebald deer before but not these very cool
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ttt for Gene's 2 cents...
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I did in fact pass up this buck as a spikehorn when he was a year and a half old. I thought it would be cool to watch him mature. He was a 4x4 for two more seasons before he went to 5x5. You will see live footage of him on our upcoming "Essential Encounters" DVD. We have been blessed with rare footage the last few years. You will also see piebald and albino deer as well as a melanistic raccoon.
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That is a really cool color phase! Very rare indeed.
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Many times we poo poo technology because of its negative effects such as leading us to forget our roots and leaving the true experience to the forgotten.
Technology, in this case, has enabled many of us to share in viewing this splendid animal.
Thank you for sharing.
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I've seen white, piebald, but never black.
Neet!
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I saw twin fawns one year that were both piebald, but one was really dark and one was really light. They looked like opposites of each other.
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:campfire:
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Rob, that's really cool. Wondered what you've been up to.
:clapper: :clapper:
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I notice that Rob's pics display a Melanistic deer that is totally black in contrast to the other Mealnistic deer pics where the deer maintained its normal white marked areas.
Just something I have reflected on.
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Friend, that's a pretty good observation for a guy from Madisonville. As a kid I lived with my partents in Earlington and Providence. Dad worked for the (Old Reliable) L & N Railroad.
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2fletch, There TG members are getting numerous however few live close by. However, I did shoot this evening with gentleman that I infact met on TG. We had a great time.
Thank you for the comment and perhaps ,we too will be fortunate enough to meet.
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The melanistic fawn pictures have been floating around the internet since spring and were taken around an Austin TX park by a professional photographer, and from what I gather, there is a much higher whitetail melanistic rate occurring in that area than anywhere else due to genetic isolation. Kinda like the white deer of the Seneca Army Depot in upstate NY.
I’m kind of an accumulator of weird colored deer photos and animal oddities after catching a white fawn as a kid, but aside from pictures have seen only one with the melanistic trait in the wild which was a doe a couple years or so ago. She wasn’t jet black, but she was awful dark.
Gathering quite a few photos of odd colored animals through the years and have learned it’s all about genetics.
Locally, melanistic eastern grey squirrels are quite common around here which I have a ton of in my back yard. The blacks actually dominate (I’d say probably around 3 to 1) over normal colored greys in town, but the further out of town you get, the more prevalent the greys become.
Read something that was posted a while back, (I believe by George S) that stated back in the days of early settlers when squirrel tails were exchanged for tax moneys, these squirrels were predominately black.