Rare albino deer bagged by 11-year-old

Eagle Eye · Oct 23, 2014

DeeJay said:
"Albino deer and leucistic deer (not a true albino) possess genetic defects that cause the white pigmentation."
It is not a special deer, it is a genetic defect. Granted it may have some special significance to certain cultures, but aside from that it should be removed from the breeding population. Congrats to the kid.
People are also breeding "rare" white German shepherds and selling them for high dollar amounts. These are also genetic defects and cannot be registered with the AKC. They should never be bred but stupid is as stupid does.

careful with your words there... cause you would also be a genetic defect from someone else's point of view. I suppose these are not your words since you quoted some source, a "genetic mutation" would be more appropriate.

Edit
I think the kid deserves props for keeping calm and executing like a champ.
I made my comment for two reasons.
1. Out of respect for genetic variation
2. I don't think anyone wouldn't support the use of those words if directed at a human albino

Mr.Glock · Oct 23, 2014

Congrats on the kids hunt! I say take them and weed them out of the population, get rid of the genetic issue. Hope the kid doesn't get beat up over this.

dennishoddy · Oct 23, 2014

Great trophy.

I'm glad the kid got a chance to kill it.

If nobody remembers, a young kid killed an albino deer around Guthrie many years ago. The uproar was so bad that a regulation was put in place that you had to have permission from the head of the ODW to take a white deer.

That reg was recinded two years ago if I remember right.

Piebald deer are very common back east, and there are a couple on the Mcalister Army Ammunition Depot.

Game managers back east say to kill all the piebald's so one can to prevent that mutation from taking over the herd.

I don't do facebook but my son sent me this question a couple of days ago. The tree huggers are ready to kill anybody that shoots a white deer.

Imagine that.......a human life is secondary to a deer.

DEER 24/7 · Oct 23, 2014

HuntersWorld said:
careful with your words there... cause you would also be a genetic defect from someone else's point of view. I suppose these are not your words since you quoted some source, a "genetic mutation" would be more appropriate.

Edit
I think the kid deserves props for keeping calm and executing like a champ.
I made my comment for two reasons.
1. Out of respect for genetic variation
2. I don't think anyone wouldn't support the use of those words if directed at a human albino

I am pretty sure we are talking about deer not humans

cobra1 · Oct 23, 2014

The reg was changed AFTER an Oklahoman lawmaker shot one, funny.

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs...onferences-celebrating-deer-you-shot-illegall

dennishoddy said:
Great trophy.

I'm glad the kid got a chance to kill it.

If nobody remembers, a young kid killed an albino deer around Guthrie many years ago. The uproar was so bad that a regulation was put in place that you had to have permission from the head of the ODW to take a white deer.

That reg was recinded two years ago if I remember right.

Piebald deer are very common back east, and there are a couple on the Mcalister Army Ammunition Depot.

Game managers back east say to kill all the piebald's so one can to prevent that mutation from taking over the herd.

I don't do facebook but my son sent me this question a couple of days ago. The tree huggers are ready to kill anybody that shoots a white deer.

Imagine that.......a human life is secondary to a deer.

dennishoddy · Oct 23, 2014

cobra1 said:
The reg was changed AFTER an Oklahoman lawmaker shot one, funny.

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs...onferences-celebrating-deer-you-shot-illegall

Your post is a piebald deer, not the albino I was referring to.

J.T. · Oct 23, 2014

Is it a whitetail deer? Yes. Was it archery season and were cross bows legal? Yes.

I'm glad the kid got a chance at a decent buck and pulled it off. The tree huggers can pound sand. It's not a unicorn, having typed that, I'd like to eat a unicorn some day.

jwg77 · Oct 24, 2014

Congrats to the kid!
Unicorns taste like chicken. Easy to find in Oklahoma as they hang in the same areas as the black mountain lions.

cobra1 · Oct 24, 2014

I was posting about the law being changed, piebald or albino, the law were you talking about that got rescinded. unless my ODWC history is fuzzy.

dennishoddy said:
Your post is a piebald deer, not the albino I was referring to.

In 2012, Oklahoma repealed a law in effect since 1998 that required a person to get permission from the State Wildlife Director before shooting a white or piebald deer. (The bill was apparently a “compromise” to totally protecting the white deer.) Since permission was always given, the law was not exactly useful, although it did prevent impulsive kills, which is what many white deer shootings are. The law was overturned when a former legislator, unaware of the regulation, shot a white deer (oops) and was fined by a warden (double oops).

FamousAJ · Oct 24, 2014

I heard the kid was getting death threats. Too bad.

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