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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: conwaydave on May 18, 2015, 10:26:21 AM

Title: I saw an albino deer this morning!
Post by: conwaydave on May 18, 2015, 10:26:21 AM: On my way to work this morning SB I-5 @ Skagit/Snohomish county line approx 5:15 am. Looked to my right and and stepping out onto old 99 was an albino doe. It was pretty cool, last time I saw one I was a little kid and saw one on Orcas Island.
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Post by: jackelope on May 18, 2015, 10:28:29 AM: Albino or piebald?
Completey white or broken color with white like a paint horse?
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Post by: Tbob on May 18, 2015, 05:05:58 PM: I remember when I was a kid there were 2 albino bucks up near index ( white with pink eyes and noses) both were poached my dad later told me..
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Post by: conwaydave on May 19, 2015, 02:15:49 AM: I did not see it broken up, looked all white to me, it was not dark out, fairly light out now at 5:15am.
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on May 19, 2015, 05:25:21 AM: It was a white moose chances are :chuckle:
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Post by: Okanagan on May 19, 2015, 06:32:06 AM: There were two along that stretch of I-5 about five years ago. One was totally white and the other a pinto patched mix of white and almond colored off-white, very pretty. Once I saw them I looked for them each time past, and saw the pinto one several times. It was the color of bleached grass in late summer and Fall and hard to spot in tall dead grass, but it was almost always with a normally colored deer. I'd see the dark one and then pick up the light tan one near it. It had a healthy coat, nothing to do with shedding or hair slip, etc.

Look for your white one each morning as you drive past that area.
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Post by: 50CalJim on May 19, 2015, 11:42:56 AM: About 10 or 12 yrs ago there was a white doe that hung out right in the same area.
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Post by: police women of America on May 19, 2015, 07:26:15 PM: awesome! nice to know there are some out there.
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Post by: cryder on May 19, 2015, 09:50:18 PM: Unicorn ?? Ya ! that's it a Unicorn , that's what it was,I saw A huge buck across the highway from loon lake yesterday whith a unbelievable rack this has to be lasy years of course but wow huge ,and still on his head wow !!
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Post by: bowtechian on May 20, 2015, 05:18:30 PM: Last 10 yrs always see a white doe not quite albino her eyes & nose are brown & her offspring end up being all brown or have white patches
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Post by: Martinhunter on May 27, 2015, 06:04:53 PM: I saw a albino family a couple years ago just outside of Rochester. A doe and two fawns all three were albino, it was pretty cool to see.
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Post by: cryder on May 28, 2015, 09:58:27 PM: I saw a flying saucer and a alian out by west medical a few times,, true story go look for yourself hes just standing there waveing 1
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Post by: fishnfur on May 28, 2015, 10:28:49 PM: Hmmmm......
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Post by: cryder on May 29, 2015, 05:55:47 AM: WOW NOW THATS A COOL SHOT !!!
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Post by: trophyhunt on May 29, 2015, 06:03:06 AM: I used to know the answer to this but now I'm just not sure, is it legal to shoot any albino big game animal? Of course during season with tags!
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Post by: KenPCPilot on May 29, 2015, 06:18:47 AM: Had a piebald doe living behind me that always had piebald fawns.
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Post by: heronblu on May 29, 2015, 08:37:00 AM: It is illegal to kill albino animals.
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Post by: RadSav on May 29, 2015, 08:51:06 AM: I found nothing on WDFW website. But it was my understanding that Washington did allow shooting of albino deer. Only reference I found was this. Not sure how reliable it is. :dunno:

http://www.southeasternoutdoors.com/outdoors/hunting/hunting-albino-deer-illegal.html

Just don't post pictures of your albino deer all over Faceplant unless you like receiving death threats.
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Post by: bobcat on May 29, 2015, 08:59:21 AM: A deer is a deer. If it's legal to kill it doesn't matter if it's white or brown.
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Post by: bigmacc on May 29, 2015, 07:23:26 PM: Quote from: bobcat on May 29, 2015, 08:59:21 AM
A deer is a deer. If it's legal to kill it doesn't matter if it's white or brown.

Well that could be true depending on the era of hunting?....when I was a kid back in the 60,s (about 9 years old) there was a small herd of albinos that a lot of hunters would see every year,a few nice bucks in the bunch also. all the hunters hunting the area these deer held up in never pulled a trigger on one. Well someone shot one in the 70,s I believe, and you would have thaught the poor guy who did pull the trigger was a lepper :chuckle: Different times I guess?
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Post by: jay.sharkbait on May 29, 2015, 07:26:53 PM: Quote from: bigmacc on May 29, 2015, 07:23:26 PM
Quote from: bobcat on May 29, 2015, 08:59:21 AM
A deer is a deer. If it's legal to kill it doesn't matter if it's white or brown.

Well that could be true depending on the era of hunting?....when I was a kid back in the 60,s (about 9 years old) there was a small herd of albinos that a lot of hunters would see every year,a few nice bucks in the bunch also. all the hunters hunting the area these deer held up in never pulled a trigger on one. Well someone shot one in the 70,s I believe, and you would have thaught the poor guy who did pull the trigger was a lepper :chuckle: Different times I guess?

I couldn't shoot one.....
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Post by: bobcat on May 29, 2015, 07:40:27 PM: I sure could! It would make a cool mount. I see no reason to protect them.
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Post by: browney5er on May 29, 2015, 08:51:19 PM: Quote from: fishnfur on May 28, 2015, 10:28:49 PM
Hmmmm......

What would cabelas pony up for that mount?
Title: Re: I saw an albino deer this morning!
Post by: bigmacc on May 29, 2015, 09:05:24 PM: Quote from: bobcat on May 29, 2015, 07:40:27 PM
I sure could! It would make a cool mount. I see no reason to protect them.

Like I said, a different era. Not to many were thinking of a "cool mount" back then....they were just neat to see. They wernt protected, but looked at as something special.....there were other deer to shoot :twocents:
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Post by: bobcat on May 29, 2015, 09:15:19 PM: I've never even seen an albino deer.
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Post by: fishnfur on May 30, 2015, 12:11:10 AM: They are legal to shoot last I read. There's a couple states left that still outlaw killing albinos. WA isn't one of them.
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Post by: heronblu on May 30, 2015, 06:23:27 AM: I take my original comment back. Apparently it is not illegal. It used to be but it looks like they repealed that law.
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on May 30, 2015, 06:30:48 AM: I used to see a few around my place in past years but none lately ...
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Post by: cryder on May 30, 2015, 07:44:49 AM: Im not shooting just to cool and rare. :tup:
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Post by: adamR on May 30, 2015, 07:50:21 AM: Quote from: fishnfur on May 30, 2015, 12:11:10 AM
They are legal to shoot last I read. There's a couple states left that still outlaw killing albinos. WA isn't one of them.

Any idea where you read this? This is something I've always wanted black and white proof of.
Title: Re: I saw an albino deer this morning!
Post by: RadSav on May 30, 2015, 08:11:10 AM: Quote from: adamR on May 30, 2015, 07:50:21 AM
Quote from: fishnfur on May 30, 2015, 12:11:10 AM
They are legal to shoot last I read. There's a couple states left that still outlaw killing albinos. WA isn't one of them.

Any idea where you read this? This is something I've always wanted black and white proof of.

How about hearing it from BigTex. Would that be black and white enough?

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,59487.msg735965.html#msg735965
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Post by: bobcat on May 30, 2015, 08:21:26 AM: Just look in the reg's. Does it specify anywhere in there that white deer cannot be killed?
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Post by: bobcat on May 30, 2015, 08:21:33 AM: Just look in the reg's. Does it specify anywhere in there that white deer cannot be killed?
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Post by: KB88 on May 31, 2015, 07:02:53 PM: I worked on one of the cell towers on MT. Constitution on Orcas Island for about a month... that island is littered with piebald deer.