More rare than an albino or piebald deer, a young hunter from Dallas shot a melanistic (or all-black) deer earlier this year.
How rare is this? On average, only five melanistic are killed in the United States each year.
Some hunters would allow this deer to walk because of the rarity, others would take the shot because of its rarity. What would you do?
Would you pass up the shot at a once in a lifetime animal, or would you squeeze the trigger?
Field & Stream has more on the story.
At first, Mike thought the deer was an Angus calf. But once he identified it as a deer, he faced a dilemma: The buck was a six-pointer, and the lease has an eight-point minimum. Bateman called another hunter on the lease, and the two decided that Brooke should take the shot at the rare deer, The Dallas Morning News reports… [continued]
Photo: The Dallas Morning News
