Arrest Made , shot two Albino deer and spotlighted them .

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I hunt up in Patrick County V.A. I have 20 + acres. We seen the doe for about six years. The other one is a 2 year old button buck. Some wonderful person spotlighted both of them this morning around 5:00 A.M. Game warden came out for report. The individual also cut parts off for trophies. Shooter shot toward a house . Just left them to rot with no meat taken. IMG_0849.jpg
 
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Unfortunately not with tempature and the game warden was in court and wasn't able to show up till after 12:00 . I've put it out on va whitetails Facebook hopefully they can get tip or taxidermist to mount them so if won't be total waist. I've watched the doe for years hunting. She smaller than the other deer.
 
That's such a POS thing to do. What are the chances of having 2 albinos running together? I guess they're likely to be siblings, but still.
 
Well hell, what’s the point? Seriously, what would the shooters even be thinking?

Genetically interesting if the buck is the descendant of the doe. Isn’t albinism recessive in deer? That would mean that a meaningful percentage of the local deer carry it.
 
This makes absolutely no sense. Illegally kill 2 deer only to cut off their tails as a trophy? Who the heck is impressed by a tail? That’s a pretty weak trophy. I hope they’re caught, fined heavily, and made to do 500+ hr of community service.
 
Jerzsubbie said:
This makes absolutely no sense. Illegally kill 2 deer only to cut off their tails as a trophy?
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Poacher trophy? Taking an illegal head to a taxidermist will get you caught. But you can just tack a tail up on the wall...
 
rcems2000 said:
Pretty sure the doe is the moma to the button buck. The neighbors and I have pictures on trail cameras of the button buck as a fawn with the mama
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Ah ok that makes sense, I didn't make that connection I just figured they would be related.
JimB said:
Well hell, what’s the point? Seriously, what would the shooters even be thinking?

Genetically interesting if the buck is the descendant of the doe. Isn’t albinism recessive in deer? That would mean that a meaningful percentage of the local deer carry it.
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Yup, it's recessive. Depending how old momma deer was, the baby daddy might also be grandpa. :)
 
The spotlighting SOB’s have a special place in hell. Every so often someone’s horse or cow gets a round or two from idiots like who ever did this.
 
rcems2000 said:
I hunt up in Patrick County V.A. I have 20 + acres. We seen the doe for about six years. The other one is a 2 year old button buck. Some wonderful person spotlighted both of them this morning around 5:00 A.M. Game warden came out for report. The individual also cut parts off for trophies. Shooter shot toward a house . Just left them to rot with no meat taken. View attachment 406293
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What a waste.

Im sure it will come back to them eventually...
 
@Trevillian
Yes. Yes they are. Are these not valid questions? How did the OP know they were spotlighting? How does the OP know they weren’t shot from the home owner on his property? How are these not valid questions based on the lack of information in the original post about the location of the OP when these animals were shot?
 
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@Trevillian
Yes. Yes they are. Are these not valid questions? How did the OP know they were spotlighting? How does the OP know they weren’t shot from the home owner on his property? How are these not valid questions based on the lack of information in the original post about the location of the OP when these animals were shot?
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See the post above. It is generally presumed that the OP would make statements based on the facts of their situation.

"Spotlighting" would seem to involve a light to shoot something in the dark.... Knowing that they were killed around a certain time before dawn would lead me to believe that OP may know or have spoken to the homeowners before posting and that is where timeframe, discovery, post, all come together... But sure there is reason to question the story, I suppose.

Luckily. OP is willing to spell it out for us...
 
turkeydance said:
a retired game warden told me long ago that all albinos should be culled using any legal way.
recessive genes residing in the the local population leads to a weakened disease response.
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Had a wildlife biologist come hang out a few days back in the mid 90s at our hunting club tell us something similar, essentially any albino or “calico” deer should be culled from the herd due to them being genetically inferior and generally indicative of inbreeding of the herd. He also more than doubled the amount of doe tags we received from the state and told us we needed to fill them all, our population was exceedingly doe heavy.
 
johnnyb said:
Had a wildlife biologist come hang out a few days back in the mid 90s at our hunting club tell us something similar, essentially any albino or “calico” deer should be culled from the herd due to them being genetically inferior and generally indicative of inbreeding of the herd. He also more than doubled the amount of doe tags we received from the state and told us we needed to fill them all, our population was exceedingly doe heavy.
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Excuse my hunting reg ignorance but a wildlife biologist (presumably employed by the state) can simply hand out a dozen tags?

It makes sense from a management standpoint but also seems like one of those things the law would ignorantly forbid.
 
Were they albino or piebald? Albino's lack pigment and have pink eyes. Piebald deer are recessive as well but may show phenotypical traits such as a "roman" nose, splayed hooves, and smaller size. Other deer normally avoid them.

And extra antlerless tags can be issued but the club or group of landowners must be in a formal deer management program where basic data is collected from every deer taken. Depredation tags are issued to producers that suffer crop damage.

And I despise poachers. They are the lowest of the low when it comes to thievery. And that's what they are, thieves, and there is nothing I hate more than a thief.
 
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Wow. People really, truly do think ( or not think) totally differently sometimes. The more I interact with some folks, the more I'm tempted to make
" What the F^&?" a greeting.
Here's hoping that whoever the poachers are, they keep their undies in the microwave. We don't need need 'em raising kids one day.
 
Jerzsubbie said:
Excuse my hunting reg ignorance but a wildlife biologist (presumably employed by the state) can simply hand out a dozen tags?

It makes sense from a management standpoint but also seems like one of those things the law would ignorantly forbid.
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As I recall (remembering this has been close to 20 years now) it was very early season and tags weren’t sent out yet. He was a state employee or contracted by the state, and he basically had the authority to modify the number of tags issued to a club
 
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