Black whitetail shot in Idaho

[gamedog]

Check this buck out

 

[jwp475]

that color deserves a full body mount....

 

[Len Backus]

Shoe polish

 

[davewilson]

never saw anything like that. the game dept. would love to see it i'm sure, if it's not "polished"

 

[FRANK21]

Thats neat.

 

[mikenc]

I agree with Dave Wilson. I would bet the wildlife biologists would love to see that deer and do some studying.

Mike Alford

 

[speedbump]

Looks like he lives in a coal mine........

 

[old_heli_logger]

The other black meat...

 

[Ridge Runner]

the term for that condition is mellanistic, a mutated gene which makes the hair on part or all of the body black, the odds of a deer carrying this gene has been stated to be as high as 4,000,000 to 1. much rarer than piebalds or albino's
here is a pic of one taken in tx several years ago

mellanism is pretty common in other animals, I've taken over a dozen mellanistic fox squirrels here in wv. on most of them the hair on them which should be white is black

But I've took 2 that were totaly black
RR

 

[Dead Beat]

i hoped they had that one mounted its a fantastic looking deer

JIM