Claim: Photographs show an unusually colored buck taken by a hunter.
TRUE
Example: [Collected via e-mail, January 2009]
Here is a crazy Buck that a hunter got over in WI. He sent these pictures to a bunch of people to see what he could get and the owner of Cabela's paid him $13,000 for the head and hide. A calico buck like the one below is rarer then an albino.
Origins: The photographs of an unusually colored piebald whitetail deer shown above are real, although the details of the accompanying text are inaccurate: the animal was taken in East Texas rather than Wisconsin, and it was not sold for $13,000.
According to the Texas Big Game Awards web site, "Bellville resident James Curtis took this unique piebald whitetail in Palestine opening weekend of deer season" in
The deer was actually killed November 2, 2008, on a privately owned ranch outside of Palestine, Texas. The piebald deer scored
Buck Manager also noted of the deer's unusual coloration that:
piebald buck was shot somewhere in east Texas. The location varies between Corsicana and Palestine. Although both of the claims could have been false, I knew this abnormally colored buck was not harvested in Corsicana simply because there are no pine stands within
The majority of white-tailed deer have brown and white hair, but piebald deer are beautiful animals possessing white and brown fur in random patterns similar to that of a paint horse. I know of very few piebald deer that have been harvested in Texas, but the photos seen here are making their way around the internet with claims that this big
Last updated: 24 September 2013