Piebald buck

[Swamp_bucks]

Finally got him on camera.  Not the best quality but I have him. 

[squirrelwhisperer]

I have never seen any PB on cam, never mind on the hoof. I hope you get a crack at him....then maybe I can see one on the ground! GL

[Robhuntandfish]

Wow that is an awesome animal.  How cool would it be to see that walking to you. Hope you get to see him.

[Swamp_bucks]

Yea I really hope I see him in person.  However there's a lot of Amish in the area so he won't last long.  It was there last year but never had a picture.   It's been a good year already this guy on camera and saw a bear on a hike.  I've been told he only hangs out on about 100acres never really leaves.

[moog5050]

Lots of white on the piebald.  Very cool.  Hope you see him. 

[ny hunter]

Very cool I hope you get a shot at him....Goodluck.........................

[eaglemountainman]

Used to be a pretty good population of them around Port Jervis about 30-40 years ago. Used to see them quite often right on the side of the highway.

 

Edited September 19, 2020 by eaglemountainman

[Cabin Fever]

Cool looking for sure!


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[G-Man]

Nice hope you get it.  Have had a few around here over they years twin does all white with top of head brown were poached heads cut off and.left in ditch.late 90s,  Pic of a speckled buck in late 90s, got my piebald buck 7pt in 2007,  and have a doe that looked like it was dipped in paint half way up its body currently.. 

[doebuck1234]

Very cool!!!was a doe and small 4 or 6pt i had on cam last year but havent seen em yet.deff not that much white either!

[BizCT]

I’d love a piebald anything - doe fawn buck


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[Hock3y24]

Let him grow if you can! Would make an amazing mount.

[wolc123]

5 hours ago, Hock3y24 said:

Let him grow if you can! Would make an amazing mount.

I agree.  He has a cool looking coat, but a small 1.4 year old rack and body.  He will be a shooter next season. You are looking at about 40 pounds of useable meat this year, but around 80 if you can hold off another year.

Edited September 20, 2020 by wolc123

[G-Man]

6 hours ago, Hock3y24 said:

Let him grow if you can! Would make an amazing mount.

Piebald are usually stunted ,and deformed ,internal organ issues many times , it may not grow much or even be alive due to its conditions, The Leucistic  white deer of seneca depot are. Different they are just a color phase. Like  black or.melinistic deer and albino ( pink nose and hooves) 

Take one when you can , bird in the hand as the saying goes...

[wolc123]

G's looks like a 2.5 and a shooter for sure. i would still hold off on the 1.5 for the first half of the season's anyhow.  I need to make the most out of my buck tags. Meat quantity is more important to me than a color oddity and they all taste the same.

A local legend of a hunter, who passed away a few years ago, killed a slightly larger 1.5 year old piebald buck about 15 years ago.  He took some flack about that from a neighbor who had been watching it that year in his hay fields.  I dont know that the dispute that resulted was worth the unique little shoulder mount or the 45 pounds of meat.

I have only ever seen one, which was antlerless, while I was out back picking sweetcorn about 20 years ago.  I always have plenty of antlerless tags, so one of those is a shooter for me at any time and no matter what size it is. I would get the hide tanned and hang it on the wall.

 

Edited September 20, 2020 by wolc123

[518BowSlayer]

that's freakin cool! only saw one ever, a doe while driving on i90. hope you get to see him!!!

[mowin]

I'd shoot any size piebald. 

The are genetically inferior.  If you're managing your heard, it's best to take them out. Don't want them breeding.

[Nomad]

Saw a piebald buck in bow many years ago ,at a distance . 
 

I saw him 2x on opening day of gun, ( easy shoots too ) and passed him up because farmer nextdoor didn’t want him shot, I wasn’t on his land either at the time .

I regret passing him up to this day .

[squirrelwhisperer]

2 hours ago, Nomad said:

Saw a piebald buck in bow many years ago ,at a distance . 
 

I saw him 2x on opening day of gun, ( easy shoots too ) and passed him up because farmer nextdoor didn’t want him shot, I wasn’t on his land either at the time .

I regret passing him up to this day .

My mentor let me hunt behind his house. He said I could take anything I wanted except this one buck. I’m thinking, “yeah right, I will never see that one”, and of course, I agreed. Right around 9:30 this guy he described walks out and directly under my tree. I’m talking 3 yard shot. I get done and run to the house and explain my encounter. Joe looks at me and says, “why didn’t you shoot him?” “Because you made me promise!”, I said. He told me it was a test of character and I should have taken him...WTF?? Thanks Joe, lol. 

[Swamp_bucks]

I was always told it's bad luck to take one.  This isn't public property either and the owners said I can shoot anything but him unless he's injured.  They like watching him and since I don't have to pay to hunt there and they are good family friends I agreed with them.  Maybe if he makes it a year they might change their mind and maybe I will also.  He was around all last year but I never saw him so he may get another year on him.  However there are a shit load of road hunters in that area so time will tell.  A sighting will be good enough for me.

[crappyice]

My buddy saw a piebald doe today on the Taconic (Salt Point turnpike exit) I have never seen one but I have seen an albino squirrel!


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[squirrelwhisperer]

2 hours ago, Swamp_bucks said:

I was always told it's bad luck to take one.  This isn't public property either and the owners said I can shoot anything but him unless he's injured.  They like watching him and since I don't have to pay to hunt there and they are good family friends I agreed with them.  Maybe if he makes it a year they might change their mind and maybe I will also.  He was around all last year but I never saw him so he may get another year on him.  However there are a shit load of road hunters in that area so time will tell.  A sighting will be good enough for me.

That’s commendable of you. Too few people actually honor their word today. 

Here’s to you, sir. 

[wolc123]

3 hours ago, Swamp_bucks said:

I was always told it's bad luck to take one.  

Could be, things did not go so well for the guy I knew that killed one, rest his soul. I miss his deer hunting stories.  He once traded me his old, 8 ft cultipacker for a case of Genny cream ale.  I have killed a pile of deer off the food plots I planted with the aid of that cultipacker:

Edited September 20, 2020 by wolc123

[Dinsdale]

Most of the "bad luck" I've seen in hunting has way more to do with not practicing with a chosen weapon and shitloads less what color an animal is.

[Dinsdale]

1 hour ago, crappyice said:

My buddy saw a piebald doe today on the Taconic (Salt Point turnpike exit) I have never seen one but I have seen an albino squirrel!


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Worked a stretch in that area and seen regular sightings of piebald deer.

There and an area just north of the village of Millbrook in Dutchess.