You Vote: Dumbarse Candidate?

[He219]

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Young bucked-tooth Brendan Pearson poses with the black whitetail deer he shot in Idaho state hunting Unit 8A, in potlatch, Idaho, in October 2007. The whitetail buck is exceptionally dark with a black head, black tongue and dark underbelly. Its legs also are dark and, aside from the white tip, its tail is all black. The first recorded report of a black deer came from New York in 1929.

if its so rare why did they let him kill it?:roll:

A rare animal....good thing he shot it.


So he could have it stuffed and mounted......HELLO!!! I would love to have that above my fireplace.

The point is, without effective wildlife management you eventually wouldn't have anything left to stuff and mount above your fireplace - especially rare juvenile black bucks.



Get a clue, they are way overpopulated nation wide. I almost hit a herd of 15 just two miles south of my house. Lucky for me I could see their feet below the fog. They are now in town. I drive 1200 miles per week and have had two run into my pickup and several near misses. They are not exactly on the endangered species list, nor is it plausible to stop and positively I.D. all of them before shooting.

You almost hit a herd of 15 rare black bucks, dark with a black head, black tongue and dark underbelly, a type first recorded in 1929?
sct1886: Dumbarse candidate?
You Decide if we send this on to Ngati Tumatuenga ..
:lol:

[boone]

Worthy nominee but the week is young.

[Tokamak]

Worthy nominee but the week is young.

I agree. p-)

[Snoshi]

Nahh. I dont know..

[Hollis]

I hope he doesn't hunt or some body's black dog will wind up on the hood of his truck.

[orange]

He would easily place himself on the nominee list but as boone said, the week is young. He's certainly not a clear winner of that prestigious award. Not yet anyway.

[EvanL]

You're jumping the gun He.
It's only Tuesday. The retards don't start acting up till around Friday when the Ritalin supplies get low.

[shocker1]

I voted no, at least he is for hunting and wildlife management.

[He219]

at least he is for hunting and wildlife management.
So am I, but it doesn't include rare or endangered species.
That's management.
;)

[EvanL]

http://www.nukethewhal.es/nukethewhales.png

[JAILER]

I must be missing something. Where in the quote under the photo does it say the deer are a rare breed? It just says they weren't discovered till 1929. However ,if they are rare he deserves the nomination, if they aren't he doesn't.

[shocker1]

So am I, but it doesn't include rare or endangered species.
That's management.
;)
How are they rare and endangered? I have not seen any to tell!:)

(Sarcasm, don't pin no medal on me.)

[Kap]

I must be missing something. Where in the quote under the photo does it say the deer are a rare breed? It just says they weren't discovered till 1929. However ,if they are rare he deserves the nomination, if they aren't he doesn't.

It has to be pretty rare indeed, this is the first time I've even HEARD of a black deer. I've seen WHITE deer, but not black.

[He219]

I must be missing something. Where in the quote under the photo does it say the deer are a rare breed? It just says they weren't discovered till 1929. However ,if they are rare he deserves the nomination, if they aren't he doesn't.
Did a little more digging.
Does 5 out of 300K or 400K sound 'rare' enough?
;)

Pearson was hunting with his father, Jeff Van Tassel of Lewiston, and other family members in Unit 8A this fall.

Van Tassel and Pearson showed pictures to biologists at the Lewiston office of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. None of them had ever seen a black whitetail. But they say the coloration comes from a genetic trait that is similar to one that produces white and albino animals. The trait is known as melanism and named after the pigment melanin.

Melanistic animals produce excessive amounts of the pigment that causes their fur to be dark or completely black.

"It's so rare he hates to shoot something like that," Van Tassel said.

Little is known about melanistic deer. But John Baccus, a biology professor at Texas State University at San Marcos, has studied them for about a decade.

The area where he lives, near Austin, is a hot spot for melanistic deer. Baccus said those who know where to look can reliably find them in the fields and edges of subdivisions around Austin. And of the 300,000 to 400,000 deer taken each year in Texas about five end up being black.

He said the melanistic trait is rare in the rest of the country with occasional reports of black deer coming in but never multiple sightings like those that occur near Austin.

"Most all of the others are just single incidences," he said. "Here in this area we have seen quite a number of them." Baccus has started to build a genetic data base on melanistic deer and was excited to hear about the one shot by Pearson. Van Tassel is working to send him a sample.

Source (http://www.idahostatesman.com/outdoors/story/234868.html)

[Albatross]

I am going to disagree, whilst I could see him pulling in a strong second there are many, many more idiots that will appear in the week to come.

[wicked_hind]

I must disagree as well. As far as dumbarseness is concerned, lider and his alter ego, TTMF, take the cake after reading some of his stuff in the gun ownership thread.