White Deer video

[Old Fart]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/video/flv/generic.html?s=inwi10s22a3q81f

Found this over on Greybeards forum.
A PBS vid of white deer.

 

[Weatherby]

I still don't understand why we can't shoot those in Oklahoma. It's just a genetic defect, but the wildlife department acts like they are a special breed. I had several chances to take one at Canton throughout the years. I'm sure he had died since, but he was a nice deer around 140-150. He would have made a nice mount.

 

[Lithiumokc]

about 4 years ago I saw a doe that was white and had light brown "cow" spots all over it.. Looked like a milk cow but was a doe. She was running with a small heard north of edmond.

 

[RidgeHunter]

I still don't understand why we can't shoot those in Oklahoma. It's just a genetic defect, but the wildlife department acts like they are a special breed. I had several chances to take one at Canton throughout the years. I'm sure he had died since, but he was a nice deer around 140-150. He would have made a nice mount.

Why?

A kid from Guthrie shot a nice piebald buck back in the 90's, before we had this law. It hit the papers, they crucified this kid.

A lady claimed the piebald buck was the reincarnated spirit of her dead father. I shi* you not.

A push for "protecting" white deer was made by her and other wackos, and we got the white deer law. NOBODY at the ODWC with half a brain wanted it. Nobody with half a brain thought it would pass.

Our legislative system is pretty screwed up. I still have the article in an old North American Whitetail magazine somewhere.
The law is poorly written, and borderline unenforceable IMO. And ignorant.

 

[Weatherby]

I wondered why we had this law. Stupid, stupid stupid.

Thanks for the info, Ridge.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Not a problem:

 

[onwmed]

Saw decent little forkhorn last season. I'll try to upload pics

 

[dennishoddy]

Why?

A kid from Guthrie shot a nice piebald buck back in the 90's, before we had this law. It hit the papers, they crucified this kid.

A lady claimed the piebald buck was the reincarnated spirit of her dead father. I shi* you not.

A push for "protecting" white deer was made by her and other wackos, and we got the white deer law. NOBODY at the ODWC with half a brain wanted it. Nobody with half a brain thought it would pass.

Our legislative system is pretty screwed up. I still have the article in an old North American Whitetail magazine somewhere.
The law is poorly written, and borderline unenforceable IMO. And ignorant.

I'll back this story up. In the current regulations, you must obtain written permission to take a white or piebald deer from the Director of the ODW.

What a stupid law.

In Virginia, Mass, etc, piebald deer are common, and hunters take them out in an attempt to keep them from spreading the piebald genes. I don't think its going to work, but it makes them feel like they are doing something.

Personally, I don't want them here anymore than I want white turkey in our flocks.