A Minnesota hunter shot and killed a RARE Albino 6 pt. buck. Should she be proud the beautiful specimen's dead

See guys, here is the reason that we can't allow the 'Animal Lovers" to protect our wildlife. They don't have a clue about what they are talking about, much less what needs to be done to control and protect the wildlife they soooo want to pet and take pictures of.

Lady...the Albino is not a SPECIES of the Deer family. It is a DEFECT of nature. As pointed out by others, it has no natural camofloge to add in its protection from preditors.

With that thought in mind, what part of a natural death do you take such great pleasure in? Is it the violent death like this creature was looking forward to where a faster and stronger animal would chase it down, as the deer ran in terror running for it's very existance. Only to be grabbed by the throat by a set of deep punturing fangs that would hang on for several minutes while the deer suffocated slowly as the teeth closed tighter, or slowly bleed to death, its blood flowing down the inside of the windpipe chocking the deer? Getting "hot" yet?

Or how about the ripe old age death? The deer begins to get too feeble to stand, and it has eaten all the vegetation within reach. Slowly it's stomach begins to shrivel as the system shuts down from lack of nutrients. Finally it dies, after several days or weeks of suffering. Possibly having smaller animals eating it alive as it died. Oh, you must be getting really excited now, Right. That was the picture you wanted wasn't it?

Here's a more humane scene.

BANG...It's all over in an instant...The animal never knew what hit it. No Terror, no long drawn out suffering.

Animal Lovers...Ya'll are some sick puppies...

Shally, albino deer are aberrations that don't usually survive very long in the wild. True albinos can't see during the day and they stick out for any predator that might be around. They are not so much rare as they are unusual in the sense that they are the exception to the rule. I do not believe that they are protected since they are not even equipped by mother nature to survive. Now some kind (breed) of white deer might be protected but albinos are just deer with the defective albino gene that just doesn't help it in the wild. Someone was going to shoot it.

Best.

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We have had a history of an occasional albino deer in the northern part of our state. Right now it is illegal to hunt them. If it was illegal when she shot it, then no she shouldn't be proud. I don't know the exact history of why you can't hunt them, it may have just been so rare law makers at the time wanted it to be kept alive so more people could see it...

But the others who've answered do have a point about albinism decreasing it's chances of survival in the wild. If it was legal sure she should be proud. Not many hunters can boast even coming across an albino deer.

I hope she gets it mounted. Its a beautiful specimen.

As a wildlife conservationist I am very pleased this abnormality was taken. These albino deer have a very poor genetic quality. They carry the genes for poor eyesight and other disorders. Also the white color makes for poor camouflage most of the year and increases the animals chance of being killed by predators.

Miketyson26

Yes. Maybe that will increase hunting awareness in places where there aren't enough hunters to properly control deer overpopulation.

And what makes an Albino so special? It doesn't have any natural camouflage, and is therefore more vulnerable to predators. I think it's nice that a female hunter got something like this, as there are too few girls willing to go shooting, much less shoot their own food.

It is not a true Albino unless it had pink eyes.* From the photos I could not tell what color the eyes were.* Albino Deer are not uncommon in the wild.* I saw a spotted Pinto Buck one time, but passed it up.* I could not bring myself to harvest it.*

Albino deer are genetic freaks of nature, if it had been allowed to live it would be an easy target for predators, not to mention if it had bred it would pass the genetic abnormalitys along.

Yes she should be proud, just as ANY hunter should be proud of their kill.

It will become a trophy and meat for her and her family rather than food for scavengers or coyotes or wolves. Albinos usually have other problems and in the summer are easy pray for predators and it was going to die someday... YES!

Sorry to say but I did not see (on the news) or read about in the paper so I'll need to stop by the DNR office to see what they have on it, I'd like to check it out for myself.

yes she should be proud of this deer, Be harvesting this deer she stopped his genetics from being passed to the next generation of deer in this area.