He's Back!!!! Albino Monster........w/pic

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Howa

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Some of you may remember my post from last year about the albino buck that walked directly under my stand the Sunday morning after Thanksgiving......well, he's back again....he was seen yesterday morning at 8 a.m. by a friend in a stand just a couple hundred yards from where I was last November. Here is a trailcam pic (not mine) from about 2 weeks ago. I will bump up the original thread to make it easier to find if anybody wants to see it ("I watched him walk away" is the thread.)

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oh, btw, if he were legal to shoot, he wouldn't have made it past the fawn stage and you would have never gotten to see him at all :)
 
Man that is a beautiful deer. If only we were allowed to shoot him. When he dies if somebody is able to find him I bet Bass Pro would pay a killing for him.
 
Southern Sportsman said:
It's even illegal to possess an albino deer in TN. So if someone did find him dead, they would have to leave him.
Wonder what is the rationale behind this?

I really can't imagine a competent wildlife biologist coming up with such a rule.
 
Wes Parrish said:
Southern Sportsman said:
It's even illegal to possess an albino deer in TN. So if someone did find him dead, they would have to leave him.
Wonder what is the rationale behind this?

I really can't imagine a competent wildlife biologist coming up with such a rule.
I'm probably wrong but.. didnt some high official or his wife have one as a pet and someone shot it? and they got a law passed against it?
 
I've seen a big mature albino buck but not one with that wide of a rack, very impressive deer. Too bad some lame and probably nonhunting lawmaker in TN had to unreasonably protect these white deer from being removed from the gene pool.... if it were legal and I killed a deer like that, I'd have to take out a loan to pay a taxidermist for a full body mount. And i never take out loans for anything.
 
Wes Parrish said:
Southern Sportsman said:
It's even illegal to possess an albino deer in TN. So if someone did find him dead, they would have to leave him.
Wonder what is the rationale behind this?

I really can't imagine a competent wildlife biologist coming up with such a rule.

I don't think wildlife biology had anything to do with this law at all. It was sausage-making by the Legislature - some state senator probably had some lobby group call and write letters until he proposed a law to protect their neighborhood albino deer, and somehow it passed. Making possession illegal was just a way to prevent people from circumventing the already-stupid law. (i.e. Checking the deer in in a bordering state and keeping him).
 

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