Pure white fallow hind

[nun_hunter]

If a safe shot and in season i personally shoot them before any other colour. Having shot plenty I've as yet not found it to be bad luck

Being surrounded by very dark melanistic fallow I actively target those before any lighter coloured ones. They're so well camouflaged, especially at last light they can be out of the trees and still impossible to see (without thermal) so I try to make life easier for me in future by reducing the number of them

 

[Firefly]

I reckon I'm living on borrowed time then! I've shot 11 white fallow so far!

Me too and I’m still here, leave them where possible as indicators but if there’s nothing else presenting they go.

 

[kenbro]

‘Shoot a white deer, dead in a year’

Place your shot better next time.
Ken.

 

[Donkey Basher]

Looks to be a true albino with the pink nose also.

Been looking at it a bit more and more i do more I am convinced it actually an Albino - rarer than a rare thing!

 

[Donkey Basher]

not been lucky enough to see one and dont believe in superstitions so would not worry
about taking one

Used to see quite a few white fallow on my previous ground - had the schitt scared out of me one morning while I was making my way into an ambush on the downs when a white buck appeared in front of me out of nowhere and just stood and looked at me before simply vanishing into the darkness again

Where I am now I've yet to see a 'proper' white one, there are some light coloured ones about but these are more very very pale brown - they look white from a distance but once you get close enough to them to see detail through the binos it becomes clear they still have the lighter belly and very light tan to the main coat.

 

[gaza916]

The white ones are very common in mid-Dorset. We shoot plenty each year and don’t differentiate due to the cull requirement numbers. The biggest buck I’ve ever shot was white. An ancient old boy, looked to have been going back for a number of years but still went 80kg larder weight. He was a long, emotional drag by hand out of the wood

 

[starr shot]

Been looking at it a bit more and more i do more I am convinced it actually an Albino - rarer than a rare thing!

Be even rarer when that one gets shot.

 

[Sol]

First wild buck I seen was a white one was pretty unusual to learn there was fallow in my area hidden on a tiny little syndicate like 30 minutes from the last documented herd.

They used to be in the hundreds as they were escapees from a deer park but poachers hut them hard, now only a few get left as markers since there really tucked up away from the main road now.

 

[75]

There's a white fallow doe running with a herd of red stags around here. Not many fallow around and she's been with them for a couple of years at least. Local photographer often snaps her and makes some emotive but incorrect comment about being a "baby albino red deer" or similar

 

[Klenchblaize]

Just what you need:
swarovski binoculars that id birds - Google Search
They also ID mammals.

K

 

[Ratel]

I reckon I'm living on borrowed time then! I've shot 11 white fallow so far!

You and me both Tim, must be 45 years since I shot my first white one, Judas deer my Grandad called them.
I wonder if they have to get a new deer man every year at Houghton Hall, their fallow herd is all white or was last time I looked. The first time I drove past there I remarked to my wife what a shame it was to fill a lovely park with sheep. Her caustic comments about my stalking eyes made me reverse, somebody had turned the sheep into white fallow.

 

[VSS]

You and me both Tim, must be 45 years since I shot my first white one, Judas deer my Grandad called them.
I wonder if they have to get a new deer man every year at Houghton Hall, their fallow herd is all white or was last time I looked. The first time I drove past there I remarked to my wife what a shame it was to fill a lovely park with sheep. Her caustic comments about my stalking eyes made me reverse, somebody had turned the sheep into white fallow.

The deer at Houghton are looking pretty good these days. All white, as you say.

 

[25 Sharps]

Looks to be a true albino with the pink nose also.

Not with pigmentation to the eyes ?

 

[JockStalk]

Shoot a white fallow and smile as you swallow……

 

[Acm]

I reckon I'm living on borrowed time then! I've shot 11 white fallow so far!

Maybe that means you’ve got 11 years

 

[Acm]

Guilty of a little white targeting myself too.
Undesirable in this park apparently.

 

[SimpleSimon]

There used to be a white one around here, I'd see it a lot when out with my dogs. Often stuck out like a sore thumb and when you stopped to look more carefully you'd see all its common-coated buddies hiding in plain sight.

 

[Klenchblaize]

Guilty of a little white targeting myself too.
Undesirable in this park apparently.

Impressive rack

K

 

[Donkey Basher]

Pity you weren't

Guilty of a little white targeting myself too.
Undesirable in this park apparently.

Pity you weren't able to wait till it was in hard antler, OK it's a park deer but it's a cracking head!

 

[stalkerboydy]

Pity you weren't

Pity you weren't able to wait till it was in hard antler, OK it's a park deer but it's a cracking head!

, i can only assume shot early so it did not spread it gene's during the Rut. When i was park culling along with the Wild Red and Fallow i would shoot everything deemed to sub standard. Having said that just because they are pure white Male or Female doesn't mean they will produce white. All white Wild female fallow I've seen have had a sandy colour youngster which when in season and large they was shot on sight.